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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…

It will soon be the season for holiday movie lovers to reignite the annual debate over whether “Love Actually,” the Christmas-themed romantic comedy with the ensemble cast of mostly British stars, is actually any good. Everyone on both sides of the debate agrees that Emma Thompson’s performance as Karen, the betrayed wife of Alan Rickman’s Harry, is a global treasure, one of the most devastating portrayals of hurt and grief in recent cinematic history. Emma Thompson crying in Love Actually gets me every time😭. Every time…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEmma Thompson has said she was “utterly, utterly blind” to the fact Kenneth Branagh was having an affair with Helena Bonham Carter.Thompson, 63, and Branagh, 61, met in 1987 when filming the series Fortunes of War. They were married two years later in 1989.The couple divorced in 1995. It emerged that Branagh had been having an affair with Harry Potter star Helena Bonham Carter, 56, who…