Miss Otterbourne is right. I love to talk. I am vain, you see. I love people to hear me bring the solution to a crime and say, “See, how clever is Hercule Poirot!”
I really loved the latest Kenneth Branagh Agatha Christie movie - Death on the Nile. Branagh really shows another side to the famous detective Hercule Poirot that I haven’t seen before. Bravo!
“Helena Bonham Carter plays a deliciously ditzy and well-meaning fairy godmother…Helena wanted a touch of the yummy mummy and talked about Mae West and Marilyn Monroe. She was also very keen to have wings.” - Kenneth Branagh, Director of Cinderella
In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don’t understand.
Happy Birthday to Kenneth Branagh!
Special shout out to Kenneth Branagh today.
Without him, I would have never discovered Wallander. I will forever be grateful for the character and stories he brought to life and which helped me most when my Nana passed away.
I say it every year, and will continue to say it, I am grateful for Kenneth Branagh. I wish him the very best always, and the happiest of birthdays today.
…Derek Jacobi got a copy of Hamlet from Peter O’Toole …In 1963, Jacobi was Laertes to O’Toole’s prince. One day, O’Toole presented him with a book of Hamlet that once belonged to celebrated Victorian actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson [See below]. Jacobi later passed it on to Branagh who, in 2017, gave it to Tom Hiddleston when he directed him as Hamlet at Rada…
We passed through turnstiles to talk TENET for this week’s FFR! Join us as we discuss the film’s protagonist The Protagonist, its alluring aesthetics, its globe-hopping, time-twisting plot, and whether or not it all adds up to a good movie. Listen now!
Kenneth Branagh as professor Gilderoy Lockhart in a never-before-seen before photoshoot from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Entertainment Weekly.
Penélope Cruz taking a picture of Steven Spielberg, Ariana DeBose, Paul Thomas Anderson, Denzel Washington,and Kenneth Branagh at the 94th Annual Oscars Nominees Luncheon at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, March 7, 2022.
1. Stevenn Spielberg takes a picture with Penélope Cruz, Ariana DeBose, Paul Thomas Anderson, Denzel Washington, and Kenneth Branagh at the 94th Annual Oscars Nominees Luncheon at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, March 7, 2022.
2. Steven Spielberg and Paul Thomas Anderson sharing stories at the luncheon.
