Daddy's Home 2
It looks like a solid yet disposable comedy.
In the first Daddy's Home, Will Ferrell plays the step-dad to some kids and their birth father (Wahlberg) gets out of prison or something and the two clash. I never saw it. But I think it's still on Amazon Prime and I might give it a look.
By the end of the first they learn to get along, but they have a combined Christmas with both paternal grandfathers coming to visit, cast hilariously in Mel Gibson and John Lithgow. I gotta admit the premise is great and the casting is even better.
Daddy's Home 2 is rated PG-13 for suggestive material and some language.
That's a softer PG-13 than I would have expected, honestly.
Murder on the Orient Express
As you can see the cast includes many names.
Kenneth Branagh, whose last name I still have not learned to pronounce, returns to the director/leading man combo in an adaptation of Agatha Christie's most famous Poirot novel. Incidentally, I have learned to pronounce the fictional character he portrays, Hercule Poirot. (~Her-Kyool Pwar-Oh) Try not to cringe at my pronunciation guide if you actually speak French.
Hercule Poirot is one of histories fine fictional detectives, along the lines of the much more famous Sherlock Holmes. Really the main difference is that Poirot is Belgian and has a famous moustache.
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| Peter Ustinov as Poirot |
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| Albert Finney as Poirot |
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| David Suchet as Poirot |
The moustache is an important feature. It is described in the books as "very stiff and military". So does the new Poirot have a moustache? Does he ever!
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| Kenneth Branagh as Poirot's moustach - I mean, as Poirot |
Did the moustache need to be that big? I don't know. Moving on.
One interesting cast member to note is Daisy Ridley. You know her as Rey from The Force Awakens and the soon-upon-us The Last Jedi. After TFA she was a real hot commodity, and she lined up a whole bunch of roles. It took two years to get the first one out the gate, but here it is!
Murder on the Orient Express is rated PG-13 for violence and thematic elements.
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