Search

Search only in certain items:

    Pinball Ride

    Pinball Ride

    Games and Entertainment

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    App

    THIS is the most intense pinball game on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Pinball Ride is a FAST...

Death on the Nile (2022)
Death on the Nile (2022)
2022 | Mystery
Cinematography (1 more)
Very stylish
Not as good as the original (0 more)
A decent remake
I'm a big Agatha Christie fan and the Ustinov version of this from '78 along with @Evil Under the Sun (1982) are two of my favourite films of her stories.
This doesn't differ too much in terms of the core story or characters. We do get a little look at Poirot's past. It looks stunning, the cinematography stands out as well as the opulence. From the Fashion, the steamer boat, all the details show the class of high luxury and wealth of the lead characters.
It's a bit raunchy as well to make it a bit more modern.
Some of cast are unrecognisable, Russell Brand looking very different. French and Saunders do seem a bit miscast though.
Some of details of the plot did seem a bit more rushed in this version. Also lacking a bit of charm of the original. Still a good effort and better than Murder on the Orient Express I felt.
  
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
2023 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Maybe I'm just starting to get a bit burned out on the relentless release pace of the MCU, but - for me- I feel like it's been on a bit of a downward trend since the end of the Infinity Stones Saga (with Avengers: Endgame)

I also miss the somewhat-heightened reality of the earlier Marvel movies: like the original Iron Man, say, or even The Winter Soldier.

The reason I say that?

Because this takes place, almost exclusively, in the quantum realm first mentioned in the original Ant-Man, really only being book-ended by the 'real' world.

This is also - or so I've read - the first in what is termed as Marvel Phase 5, introducing (for any who didn't make it to the end of the Loki TV show!) the next big bad, in the form of Jonathan Major's Kang the Conqueror (who steals pretty much every scene he is in here)
  
My exposure to Dune - despite knowing the basics i.e. Science fiction, Sandworms, Arrakis - really only comes from the 2021 (Dune) and 2024 (Dune: part 2) movies.

Which I'm well aware, due to the nature of the medium, leaves a lot out.

As such, it's interesting reading this (after having read the previous 2 entries in the same graphic novel series) to see how much is familiar, and how much is changed.

Oh, the basics are there right enough (in the movies), but there are several differences to the story: Paul Atriedes sister (only teased in Part 2), here, being the most prominent example.

Not having read the 'original' original, I can't say how much was changed for the move from print to graphic novel medium, but I do believe that the authors/artists/stencillers here did try to stick as close as possible to that story.

I can understand why it was slimmed down for the move to the big screen.
  
40x40

ClareR (5874 KP) Apr 8, 2025

I’m interested to see your reviews on the first three of these graphic novels (are there more?), because my husband is angling for them for his birthday in August! We’re huge Dune fans. Read the books, watched the films. I wouldn’t say your ratings have put me off, but I might have to get him something else as well, just in case they fall a bit flat!

40x40

David McK (3557 KP) Apr 13, 2025

https://smashbomb.com/s/dune-the-graphic-novel-part-1 and https://smashbomb.com/s/frank-herberts-dune-the-graphic-novel-book-2-muaddib