Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) is enjoying his retirement in Venice when he is visited by old friend and mystery novelist, Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey). Against his better judgment, he accompanies her to a children’s Halloween party that evening hosted by Rowena Drake (Kelly Reilly). The real excitement of the evening, however, will happen after the…
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Oppenheimer
On August 6, 1945, the United States military dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Early estimates stated that over 100,000 people were killed in these two attacks, many of them civilians. These weapons were developed over years…
Death on the Nile
On a holiday at the pyramids of Giza, Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) bumps into his friend Bouc (Tom Bateman) who invites the renowned detective to attend the lavish wedding celebration of Linnet Ridgeway (Gal Gadot) and Simon Doyle (Armie Hammer). When Simon’s ex-fiancé, Jacqueline de Bellefort (Emma Mackey) has been discovered following the newlyweds, the…
Belfast
In the late 1960’s, in Belfast, lives Buddy (Jude Hill). His imaginative playtime is interrupted by the onset of The Troubles, a decades-long socioeconomic clash that consumed Northern Ireland. Back at home, his mother (Caitriona Balfe) struggles to run the house with her husband (Jamie Dornan) in England for weeks at a time on a job. After school,…
The Marquee Topic 