This Day in History: The 2017 film Murder on the Orient Express was given a Critics' Choice Awards for Best Production Design on this day in 2018. While the movie was panned by critics in other areas, I enjoyed it, and it sits rather well in one of my favorite genre of movies: Mysteries & Thrillers set in Winter. There are so many good movies in this rather narrow category, such as: The Grey, A Simple Plan, Cliffhanger, Frozen (not the cartoon), Fargo, the Thing, Blood and Money, Misery, Wind River, Dead of Winter, Whitewash, Hanna, Eye See You, Dark Valley, Smilla's Sense of Snow, The Terror, Transsiberian, Storm of the Century, Braven, Sugar Mountain, Devil's Pass, The Lodge, The Revenant, Alive, The Road, Van Helsing, The River King, Ginger Snaps-The Beginning, to name but a few. Many would add The Shining to that list.
Murder on the Orient Express has had many different adaptations, starting with the 1974 Albert Finney and Lauren Bacall movie, then there is a 2001 version starring Alfred Molina, and a 2006 version with the best Hercules Poirot, David Suchet. There is even a Japanese adaptation that came out in 2015.
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