I own a digital copy just so I can watch it whenever the mood strikes.  Tried to buy a digital copy of 1978 Death on the Nile, but you can’t get one. Settled for the dvd. Still worth.

The story is actually a little more interesting (and kind of funny). The studio executive Fincher was dealing with said he couldn’t use “I want to have your abortion”. Fincher threatened to walk and they compromised. Fincher agreed to drop the line if he was allowed to replace it with another of his choosing with no…

Maggie Smith & Diana Rigg together, just incredible, almost too amazing

At least we got the fantastic (semi) duet with Maggie Smith. Bitchiness has never looked so good.

Evil Under the Sun was another star-studded Poirot movie with Peter Ustinov. My main issue with it was that Diana Rigg played the murder  victim & after that the movie did not have Diana Rigg in it anymore, vamping it up as a bitchy actress 

Natalie Morales’ Plan B was a lovely friend-centered kind of rom-com. The young actresses (Victoria Moroles and Kuhoo Verma) were just perfect

it is well known the main hobbies in the english countryside are birding, adultery, and murder.

Branagh: “Ok, for the third Poirot movie, Mystery at the Regatta, I want Kevin Spacey, Chrissy Teigen, Ellen DeGeneres, Louis CK, Casey Affleck, Aziz Ansari, and Jeffrey Tambor. On the soundtrack, I’m thinking edgy - I want an R Kelly/Marylin Manson collab.

The very good 1978 adaptation with Peter Ustinov also stays true to that structure.

The first movie’s cast had Depp, Judi Dench, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Pfeiffer, Josh Gad, and Daisy Ridley (then fresh off a lead role in The Force Awakens). What you define as a “star” is somewhat subjective, but I suspect the average person would recognize most of those names.

Not as star-studded as (slightly tighter) the 1978 version, which in addition to Peter Ustinov as Poirot had Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, Mia Farrow, Jane Birkin, Angela Lansbury, David Niven, Olivia Hussey, Jack Warden, and George Kennedy.

As a middle-aged Scotsman who grew up watching their comedy, I am unexpectedly excited at the thought of French & Saunders being reunited on the big screen. Low wattage? Pish!

It would probably prove even higher than one might expect if the authorities were to dig up Jessica Fletcher’s cellar floor.

I’m gonna miss you most of all, Dowd.

I have never once thought of whip-smart (or smart as a whip) as meaning anything other than someone, regardless of gender, who is smart and gets things right away. Not sure where you’re getting your definition from.

It’s Midsummer you need to avoid

That pacing is 100% from the original novel, which has such an unusually convoluted backstory by Agatha Christie standards that the entire first half is spent just establishing how all the suspects are connected. The very good 1978 adaptation with Peter Ustinov also stays true to that structure.

...the second greatest detective in the world might inquire as to why bodies seem to turn up every time his name is on the manifest.

I definitely consider myself liberal/left, but I often find myself pretty disgusted by how much discourse on the left sounds oddly like it’s promoting separation of the races. 

First Akwafine thought, first time I heard her talk (Crazy Rich Asians) I thought she was doing a Miley Cyrus impersonation so that’s my take on her voice.