Tag Archives: Agatha Christie

A Haunting In Venice. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Tina Fey, Kelly Reilly, Jamie Dornan, Michelle Yeoh, Riccardo Scamarcio, Dylan Corbett-Bader, Amir El-Masry, Ferando Piloni, Lorenzo Acquaviva, David Menkin, Camille Cottin, Jude Hill, Rowen Robinson, Emma Laird, Vanessa Ifediora, Kyle Allen, Ali Khan, Esther Rae Tillotson, Winnie Soldi.

Agatha Christie is the queen of crime, but even those of literary royal blood must admit that there is a period of time in their career that just doesn’t align itself to any other; and the longer the reign, the more likely it is to be at the final curtain that the illumination starts to fade; literature aping real life as the spell can be, hopefully not broken, but perhaps witnessed for what it is; a last hurrah of a genius mind.

See How They Run. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Sam Rockwell, Harris Dickinson, Pearl Chanda, Adrien Brody, David Oyelowo, Ruth Wilson, Reece Shearsmith, Charlie Cooper, Tim Key, Sian Clifford, Angus Wright, Shirley Henderson, Lucien Msamati, Paul Chahidi, Kieran Hodgson, Gregory Cox, Maggie McCarthy, Olver Jackson, Tomi Ogbaro, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Ania Marson, Philip Desmeules, Laura Morgan, Pippa-Bennett-Warner, Tolu Ogunmefun.

Crooked House. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson, Glenn Close, Max Irons, Stefanie Martini, Terence Stamp, Julian Sands, Amanda Abbington, Christian McKay, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, John Heffernan, Preston Nyman, Madeleine Hyland, Petros L. Ioannou, David Cann, Gino Picciano, Andreas Karras, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, David Kirkbride, Ricky Gabbrielini, David Seddon, Reuben Greeph, Ani Nelson, Lauren Poveda,  Honor Kneafsey.

Marple: A Caribbean Mystery, Television Review. I.T.V.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Julia McKenzie, Robert Webb, Antony Sher, Charity Wakefield, Hermione Norris, Alistair Mackenzie, Daniel Rigby, Montserrat Lombard, Oliver Ford-Davis, MyAnna Buring, Anele Matoti, Joe Vaz, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Charles Mesure, Piipa Bennett-Warner, Warren Brown, Jeremy Crutchley, Charlie Higson.

Not even in the Caribbean are you safe from Miss. Marple, the woman with the scent of murder in her nose even when she is sent abroad to recuperate after a bout of illness always finds the murderer in the end.