Hercule Poirot’s Final Season
DATELINE: TV MASHUP Our Big Four After 25 Years! After 25 years and thirteen seasons, Hercule Poirot’s final five episodes will come across American television on Acorn...
View ArticlePoirot’s Two Follies
DATELINE: MOVIE MASHUP We offer two reviews for one on a remake and an original. The second of the final season movies for Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is another of the more cynical murder novels by...
View ArticleLaborious Cases for Hercule
DATELINE: TV MASHUP In the penultimate movie about Hercule Poirot, the creators and David Suchet try to cram a dozen stories into one film. Based on The Labors of Hercules, the stories meld into one...
View ArticleChristie Pulls the Curtain on Hercule Poirot
DATELINE: TV MASHUP Agatha Christie’s posthumous novel about the end of Poirot fits the long-running series with David Suchet. Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case is a disturbing and cynical finish to the...
View ArticleAgatha Christie’s ABC Murders with Suchet’s Poirot
DATELINE: A Worthy Series Suchet as the inimitable Hercule David Suchet’s bravissimo performance over two decades as Hercule Poirot might be appreciated many times. This week we took in The ABC...
View ArticlePoirot’s Murder Most Foul, Justice Most Brutal
DATELINE: Another Remake on the Horizon Best Version of Murder on the Orient Express The David Suchet version of Murder on the Orient Express is a completely different movie than the glitzy Hollywood...
View ArticleBranagh’s Murderous Result: Disoriented Express
DATELINE: Strike Three! Hit & Run? Pit-stop for Orient Express! When dainty detective Poirot is transformed into a Belgian Sam Spade, we know the troubles are just beginning. Director and star...
View ArticleABC Murders Agatha Christie
DATELINE: New Version of Classic Tale Amazon Studio has produced a 2019 remake of the ABC Murders by the foremost crime novelist. Alas, this version of the classic story is libel against the author...
View ArticleDavid Suchet’s Evil Under the Sun!
DATELINE: Poirot Dandy! Great Cast! We took in an old TV chestnut from almost twenty years ago, Evil Under the Sun, from the eighth season of the off and on series of David Suchet as it attempted to...
View ArticleFranchise Detectives: Blanc and Poirot
DATELINE: TV or Not TV As if one fiasco performance was not enough in Murder on the Orient Express,Kenneth Branagh has pasted on his giant fake mustache for a second Poirot adventure based on Agatha...
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