In 1933 New York, two best friends (and veterans from World War I), find out that their beloved general from their battalion has died of mysterious circumstances on his way back from Europe. The gener…
It's 1950s in London's West End, and the uber-popular stage show of Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" has reached a milestone with its 100th performance. Caddish American director Leo Kopernick (Adrie…
There is a moment in Nope, Jorden Peele's latest in his surprising and very welcome career as a filmmaker: OJ (Daniel Kaluuya), a very mild-mannered rancher races home to find a giant, menacing UFO po…
Delia Owens' 2018 novel Where the Crawdads Sing was (and continues to be) a blockbuster of a book. By the beginning of 2022, it had sold 12 million copies, making it one of the best-selling books of a…
Despite its gorgeous cast and intriguing trailer, I wasn't chomping at the bit to see Kenneth Branagh's latest Agatha Christie adaptation. I agreed with Moviepie's Vickie that 2017's Murder on the Ori…
When I was a kid, I loved this show called Lucan, about a boy who raised by wolves. It was the TV era of championing outcasts as superheroes, like The Incredible Hulk and The Bionic Woman, and like so…
Season Two of The Alienist (subtitled Angel of Darkness) focuses on a series of missing infants, snatched right from their own crib, or from their baby buggy in full daylight. Our trusty trio of sleut…
Grace (Nicole Kidman) and Jonathan Fraser (Hugh Grant) live the perfect life of the wealthy elite in New York City. She is a successful psychologist, sensitive and kind. He is an oncologist for c…
What do you get when you throw a slew of famous faces into a comedic murder-mystery movie written and directed by Rian Johnson? The trailers and promotional pull quotes would have you believe it’s a z…
Jong-su (Ah-In Yoo), an amiable slacker meets-cute with cute Hae-mi (Jong-seo Jeon) one day. He's the kind of passive but friendly kind of guy who can get steamrolled by a woman with a strong, flirty …
Octogenarian Judi Dench can do it all. She can play smart, fierce and sexy (see her in the more recent James Bond films). She can be a queen (a number of films). She can be a creeper (oh, yes, No…
In addition to helming the film, Branagh stars as renowned detective Hercule Poirot, whose investigative skills are rivaled only by his OCD. Remaining very faithful to the source material, the 1930s-s…
