TV • PAGE 25
THE BULLETIN • JANUARY 21 - 27, 2021
What’s Available NOW On
“How I Met Your Mother”
All nine seasons of this 2005-14
CBS sitcom about the adventures
of a group of friends, using one
character’s recollections of those
days to his two children as a framing
device, comes to the streaming
service. Jason Segel, Alyson
Hannigan, Josh Radnor, Neil Patrick
Harris and Cobie Smulders are in the
talented cast.
BY JAY BOBBIN
“Movie: The Silencing”
From Canada and director Robin
Pront (“The Ardennes”) comes this
2020 actioner about a reformed
hunter living in isolation on a
wildlife sanctuary, who gets involved
in a deadly game of cat-and-
house with a killer who may have
kidnapped his daughter years earlier.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Annabelle
Wallis and Hero Fiennes Tiffin head
the cast.
“Movie: Chick Fight”
“Movie: Mortal”
From Norway comes this 2020
action-adventure about a psychologist
who treats a mysterious young man
imbued with the power to burn
people and objects by touching them.
André Ovredal (“The Autopsy of
Jane Doe”) directs a cast headed by
Nat Wolff (“Semper Fi”), Priyanka
Bose (“Lion”) and Iben Akerlie
(“Victoria”).
Malin Akerman (“Billions”) stars
as woman on the skids who joins
an all-female underground fight
club to find some direction and
discovers she’s much more personally
connected to the history of the club
than she ever could have imagined.
Bella Thorne, Alec Baldwin and
Kevin Connolly also star in this 2020
action-comedy from director Paul
Leyden (“Come Back to Me”).
BEST AGATHA CHRISTIE MOVIES
“Witness for the Prosecution”
(1957) Not involving one of Christie’s
legendary detective characters, Billy
Wilder’s version of her courtroom drama
casts a fabulous Charles Laughton as a
twilight-years British lawyer defending an
“Witness for the Prosecution” accused killer (Tyrone Power) whose wife
(Marlene Dietrich) becomes the unexpected
title witness for the prosecution.
“Murder on the Orient Express”
(1974) Arguably the top film treatment of
a Christie story to date – even the author
herself approved, which reportedly was
rare – director Sidney Lumet’s elegant
drama boasts a great Albert Finney as
“Murder on the Orient Express” Poirot in a mind-boggling cast that also
includes Lauren Bacall, Jacqueline Bisset,
Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa
Redgrave, Michael York and an Oscar-
winning Ingrid Bergman.
“Death on the Nile” (1978) Peter
Ustinov assumes the part of Poirot to
probe the murder of an heiress aboard
“Death on the Nile”
a cruise down the legendary Egyptian
river; “suspects” include Bette Davis, David
Niven, Angela Lansbury, Maggie Smith,
Mia Farrow and George Kennedy. (A
newer version currently is awaiting release.)
“Agatha” (1979) Rather than being
based on a work by Christie, this drama
fictionalizes a period of her life, with
Dustin Hoffman as a reporter who becomes
interested in finding the missing writer
(played by Vanessa Redgrave).
“Crooked House” (2017) Another
Poirot-less, Marple-less Christie tale puts
a private detective (Max Irons) in a race
against Scotland Yard to solve the murder
of an ex-flame’s grandfather. Glenn Close,
Gillian Anderson and Christina Hendricks
are on the suspect list.
“Murder on the Orient Express”
(2017) As both star (as Poirot) and
director, Kenneth Branagh gave this mystery
another solid screen workout, merging
great external (and computer-enhanced)
views of the title train into the puzzler
involving another all-star cast.
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