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Stage Fright (1987) TrailerAfter an auspicious early career assisting, acting for, and/or otherwise working with the likes of Lucio Fulci, Joe D’Amato, Dario Argendo, and Terry Gilliam, Michele Soavi made his own cinematic mark, directing cult favorites like 1989's The Church, 1991's The Sect, and perhaps his best-known work, 1994's Dellamorte Dellamore (aka Cemetery Man). His first feature, 1987's Stage Fright, is maybe a hair more “horror” than “giallo,” but its tale of actors trapped in a theater with an escaped…

A Haunting In Venice | Official Trailer | In Theaters Sept 15The spookiest of director and star Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha Christie adaptations sees famed detective Hercule Poirot invited to a Halloween séance held at a palazzo that was once an orphanage—and, of course, murder soon follows. Michelle Yeoh, Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan, and Kelly Reilly are also among the cast. Stream on Hulu. A Haunting In Venice | Official Trailer | In Theaters Sept 15The spookiest of director and star Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha Christie…

Image: 20th Century StudiosOne of Agatha Christie’s most famous characters, Hercule Poirot, returns to the big screen in A Haunting in Venice, the third film to come out of the partnership of director/actor Kenneth Branagh and screenwriter Michael Green. The previous two films; Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Death on the Nile (2022), where fairly cut and dry murder mysteries, but A Haunting in Venice seems to take a turn towards... the supernatural. Check out the trailer.Threads Needs These Five Missing Features…

Giving us gothic vibes in early 1900s Boston, Relentless Melt follows Artie Quick, a crossdressing young woman who disguises herself as a man in order to further her education, and her friend Theodore, an up-and-coming high society magician, as they investigate claims of abductions on the Boston Common. As Artie works to keep her double life disguised, Theodore must explore the darker side ofhis upper-crust upbringing. Twitter Is Shifting Right | Future TechDescribed as H.P. Lovecraft meets Agatha Christie, Relentless…

Image: 20th Century StudiosThe mustache is back for another mystery—this time, a supernatural one!—in Kenneth Branagh’s next Agatha Christie adaptation, A Haunting in Venice, once again starring the director as the gifted detective. The movie is based on Christie’s novel Hallowe’en Party and has just shared its first teaser trailer:A Haunting In Venice | Teaser Trailer | 20th Century StudiosHere’s the official description: “A Haunting in Venice is set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve and is a…

I read my first Agatha Christie a little late in life. In college, at a time when the internet was the preserve of a select few, books had to be bought in stores, and thrifting wasn’t a concept, I chanced upon a dog-eared copy of The ABC Murders at a ramshackle library that my cousin and I frequented every summer. Emerging only later that night, I set the book aside as the best thing I had ever read. It was the beginning of a life-long love affair. PREMIUM Just the sort of lovely home in a quiet English village…

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE - Official Trailer (HD)Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (June 2)It can’t actually happen, right? Sequels are almost always inferior to the originals, especially when the original was a film sent down from the heavens and presented to the world as a stone-cold superhero masterpiece. But Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse could actually live up to the impossible expectations of following up one of the best superhero movies ever. Strays (June 9)When you think “adult animation” you…

The "Orient Express" has been called the "king of trains" and the "train of kings."Royalty, writers, actors and spies have ridden the original route between Paris and Istanbul, which started in the late 19th century.Author Agatha Christie described the Orient Express as "the train of my dreams." She set a bestselling murder mystery novel on its carriages, and fictional spy James Bond rode it in the movie "From Russia With Love."Travelers might think of the Orient Express as a single luxurious train, but there have in fact…

Dear Reader, Books by September born authors.  Then I re-read The Things They Carried. This collection of short stories goes back to the Vietnam War, following the author Tim O’Brien, who flies half away across the world, to fight a deadly and desperate war. The title story is a list — of the things the young soldiers carried. A catalogue, and it's heart-rending. I read into the night, feeling the weight of the military rucksacks the soldiers carried, their rations, their guns, their cartridges, grenades, and their…

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery release date is here. The sequel to writer-director Rian Johnson's Knives Out will release December 23 on Netflix, the world's biggest subscription-based video streaming service announced late Monday. Though you can catch Daniel Craig's detective Benoit Blanc prior to that if you are lucky. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is set to premiere in September at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, and will be released in select theatres internationally — not in India — in November…