The Devil Wears Prada 2
20 years after working as an assistant for Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) at Runway Magazine, Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is hired behind Priestly’s back as her new features editor, tasked…
A Haunting in Venice
Venice, 1947; Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) is enjoying his retirement when a friend (Tina Fey) of his draws him into a murder mystery involving a medium (Michelle Yeoh). Branagh’s third…
Oppenheimer: Destroyer of Worlds
Cillian Murphy. Photo: Universal There’s a sex scene in this film that generated negative buzz, where Oppenheimer’s girlfriend tells him to read a Sanskrit passage aloud while she’s riding him.…
Death on the Nile
In 1937, Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) finds himself on a steamer on the Nile, trying to figure out whom among the passengers is a murderer. Branagh donned the elaborate Poirot…
Avengers: Infinity War
Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) crash-lands on Earth in time to let the other Avengers know that he and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) have just faced the formidable villain Thanos (Josh Brolin) and…
Henry V: Branagh and the Bard
Photo: Renaissance Films When I was a teenager, my class was treated to a performance of Shakespeare’s ”Hamlet”. It was not a bad production; the young leading actors later became…
Murder on the Orient Express
In 1934, famous detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) finds himself on the Orient Express where a notorious businessman (Johnny Depp) is murdered. Another star-studded version of Agatha Christie’s most famous…
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Young Afghanistan War veteran Jack Ryan (Chris Pine) is recruited by the CIA to work covertly in a Wall Street company, but suddenly the analyst is turned into an operative…
Thor
Thor (Chris Hemsworth), the hot-headed son of Odin (Anthony Hopkins), is banished to Earth, which becomes an opportunity for his brother (Tom Hiddleston) to seize power of Asgard. The fourth…
Chariots of Fire: For God and Honor
Photo: Allied Stars I have taken up running recently and discovered that it is easy to get hooked. It’s tough in the beginning but some days it is as if…