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Emma Thompson's daughter takes swipe at mom's ex Kenneth Branagh decades after Helena Bonham Carter affair
July 30, 2024 | 6:52pmEmma Thompson may have forgiven her ex-husband, but it seems her daughter hasn't.
New book 'Bigot' gives us celebrities to hate watch
November 1, 2023 | 8:09pmHate crimes have been on the rise, notably much more on college campuses since Hamas's terrorist attack against Israel last month.
'A Haunting in Venice' frightened the competition on its opening night
September 16, 2023 | 5:45pmThe third film in the murder mystery series produced and written by Kenneth Branagh raked in $5.5 million on its opening night Friday.
'A Haunting in Venice' review: For once, Branagh doesn't murder Agatha Christie
September 15, 2023 | 6:59amOn his third try, Kenneth Branagh gets an Agatha Christie movie right. I had mostly given up on the once-heinous mystery series, dragging myself to his new “A Haunting in...
'Death on the Nile' review: Another brutally murdered whodunit
February 10, 2022 | 5:00pmKenneth Branagh is turning into one of Hollywood’s most violent serial killers.
Armie Hammer emerges -- just barely -- in 'Death on the Nile' trailer
December 21, 2021 | 2:04pmYou'd never know who the star of this movie is by its trailer.
Celebrated actor is unrecognizable as Boris Johnson in COVID drama
February 25, 2021 | 8:27amFirst look at the 60-year-old actor playing the British Prime Minister.
Hollywood stars campaign to save jail where Oscar Wilde was detained
January 2, 2021 | 12:58pmThree British stars are campaigning to save the jail where Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde was held for being gay in the late 1800s.
'Artemis Fowl' will skip theaters and go straight to Disney+
April 3, 2020 | 3:40pmDisney has made its biggest move yet amid movie theater closures due to the coronavirus pandemic: It's sending a major film straight to Disney+. "Artemis Fowl," based on the popular...
Daniel Craig and cast have a blast in 'Knives Out'
November 25, 2019 | 2:43pmDirector Rian Johnson’s first film since “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” has no Death Star, but it has plenty of death and stars. Toni Collette. Daniel Craig. Chris Evans. Jamie...
Star-studded adaptation kills this Agatha Christie classic
November 9, 2017 | 1:44pm“Murder on the Orient Express” has been . . . murdered! Which of you could have killed this cold and limp new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s whodunit, in which a wealthy criminal...
Quit complaining, ‘Age of Adaline’: 29-year-olds have done a lot
April 23, 2015 | 3:45pmIn the new movie “The Age of Adaline,” in theaters Friday, Blake Lively stars as the titular woman who was born a century ago but never ages past 29. While...
'Cinderella' says little more than bibbity-bobbity-boo
March 12, 2015 | 10:00pmThis “Cinderella” is all dressed up with nowhere very interesting to go. Directed by Kenneth Branagh, the live-action reboot is bathed in a stunning Technicolor palette reminiscent of Disney’s ’50s...
9 'Harry Potter' stars who leapt from the screen to the stage
June 18, 2014 | 10:36amNo wonder more and more members of the casts of the eight “Harry Potter” films are turning up onstage: After all, most of Hogwarts’ teaching staff seems to have been...
Over-the-top Macbeth full of sound, fury and wow
June 6, 2014 | 3:37amFor his New York stage debut, Kenneth Branagh could have gotten away with anything. A solo reading of takeout menus? It’s a hit! Instead, the Shakespeare expert brought over a...
Smart and fast 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit' entertains
January 15, 2014 | 12:56pmIn “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” we learn that Greenwich Village’s lefty haven Film Forum is the favorite place in town for CIA agents to swap files, which is as I...
Kenneth Branagh has evolved from Shakespeare to action movies
January 12, 2014 | 7:16amNot even Caesar’s soothsayer could’ve predicted it. Kenneth Branagh, the 53-year-old Irish actor and director who is mostly associated with Shakespeare — and earned a knighthood in 2012 — is...