Tag Archives: Agatha Christie

Death on the Nile (1978, 2022) review — It’s worth booking passage on Branagh’s boat, but Peter Ustinov will always be the best

February 20, 2022 flawintheiris

Death on the Nile (1978) | Directed by John Guillermin | Written by Anthony Shaffer from the novel by Agatha Christie | 140 min | ▲▲▲▲△| Criterion Channel As I mentioned back when I reviewed Ken Branagh's take on Murder On The Orient Express in 2017, it was Guillermin's Death on the Nile that introduced… Read More

A Brief History of Spy Movies: Part One

June 29, 2019 flawintheiris

A while back, Stephen Cooke and I did one of our LENS ME YOUR EARS podcasts on spy movies, which you can find a link to here. I urge you to check it out—Stephen has an enormous knowledge of the history of movies, and I always learn something in our conversations. But if you're not… Read More

Murder On The Orient Express (2017) review — One-track movie-going

November 13, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by Kenneth Branagh | Written by Michael Green, from the novel by Agatha Christie | 114 min The Agatha Christie adaptation I grew up with was Death On The Nile. For some reason I'd seen that film three or four times as a kid, and Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is forever embodied in my heart… Read More