What to Watch: Gays on the Nile, a dead dad’s boyfriend & a wild queer symphony
Whatever your entertainment needs, we got your back (and hopefully your mind) with Queerty’s weekly “Culture Club” column with some of the highlights of new releases, streaming shows, classics worth revisiting, and what to drink while you watch.Director Kenneth Branagh, fresh off his Oscar nominations for Belfast returns to big-budget spectacle with this sequel to his Murder On the Orient Express remake.
Death on the Nile sees Branagh return to the role of Agatha Christie’s inimitable detective Hercule Poirot. This time out, Poirot joins a Nile river cruise thrown by the wealthy heiress Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle (Gal Gadot) and her new husband, Simon (Armie Hammer).
Of course, as with all things Agatha Christie, someone ends up dead, everyone on the boat is a suspect leaving Poirot to solve the case.Branagh knows how to do spectacle, and more so than even in his Orient Express, Death on the Nile relishes in exotic Egyptian landscapes of crumbling ruins, sand dunes, and 1920s decadence.
Viewed on a big screen, it’s eye candy to match any recent superhero fare. Branagh also knows how to get the best out of his actors: Gadot, Tom Bateman, and Emma Mackey all sparkle here.By now, Christie’s stories have been done to death (excuse the phrase) in movies and television, but Branagh along with writer Michael Green find a way to make this one feel fresh.
