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CHICAGO – Society, or at least certain elements of society, are always looking for scapegoats to hide the sins of themselves and authority. In the so-called “great America” of the 1950s, the scapegoat target was comic books … specifically through a sociological study called “The Seduction of the Innocent.” City Lit Theater Company, in part two of a trilogy on comic culture by Mark Pracht, presents “The Innocence of Seduction … now through October 8th, 2023. For details and tickets, click COMIC BOOK.
Film Review: Hercule Poirot Will Go ‘A Haunting in Venice’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 14, 2023 - 6:37pm
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”A Haunting in Venice” is in theaters September 15th. Featuring Kenneth Branagh, Tina Fey, Michelle Yeoh, Kelly Reilly, Jamie Dornan, Jude Hill, Camille Cottin and Kyle Allen. Screenplay adapted by Michael Green. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Rated “PG-13”
Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “A Haunting in Venice”
A Haunting in Venice
Photo credit: 20th Century Pictures,/Walt Disney Studios
Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “A Haunting in Venice”
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CHICAGO – While Kenneth Branagh still isn’t a favorite Hercule Poirot, I was as surprised as anyone to find that this third go around as the Belgian detective was my favorite. As the title implies, there are jump scares a-plenty as Poirot tries to get his little gray cells around the strange goings-on in a spooky house, and solve the mystery.
 Rating: 3.5/5.0 |
In “A Haunting In Venice,” Poirot is in retirement in 1947, devoting himself to fine pastries in a palazzo in Venice.This all changes when a mystery writer who’s also an old acquaintance (Tina Fey) drags him out to attend a seance at the home of an Opera Singer (Kelly Reilly of “Yellowstone”) who is racked by grief after her daughter died under mysterious circumstances some years earlier.
Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “A Haunting in Venice”A Haunting in Venice
Photo credit: 20th Century Pictures,/Walt Disney Studios
Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “A Haunting in Venice”
