The first screen adaptation of the Agatha Christie mystery costars Bette Davis, David Niven, Angela Lansbury, and Mia Farrow.
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‘Gosford Park’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD
In Gosford Park (2002), Robert Altman brings his gift for big, sprawling dramas knit with a fine weave of characters and a massive cast up to the task of filling them up with lives to the Merchant Ivory idiom of the manners and manors of Britain’s upper crust of yesteryear, 1932 to be specific. The […]
‘Downton Abbey: Season 6’ on Amazon Prime
Downton Abbey: Season 6 is the final run for the BBC series that revived the Upstairs Downstairs melodrama of the families living on inherited wealth and the servants who work for them as a portrait of a culture going extinct in the 1920s. It became a phenomenon in both Britain and the U.S., where it […]