PODCAST: Blade Runner 2049, Orient Express, & Thor: Ragnarok [Electric Shadows]

Episode 32 of The Electric Shadows Podcast is a bumper round-up as Rob Daniel & myself take a belated look at Blade Runner 2049, deduce what we think of Murder on the Orient Express, and lay the hammer down on Thor: Ragnarok.

REVIEW: Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express is undoubtedly a grand production, but lacks the elegant simplicity to be a truly first-class entertainment.

Unlike Sydney Lumet’s 1974 adaptation, this is less a starry, lavishly-upholstered murder mystery than a modern-day blockbuster that just seems to be based on an Agatha Christie novel.…

Little Grey Celluloid: Some Thoughts on Poirot in Film (and TV)

So, Brexit…

When Agatha Christie conceived of perhaps her most iconic creation, her choice of nationality for him carried with it a certain European esprit de corps. It was 1916, though the first novel wasn’t published until 1920, and Belgium was then occupied by the forces of imperial Germany.…