Month: November 2023

  Kenneth Branagh returns as the world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot in A Haunting in Venice, the third and best film Branagh has directed based on the books of Agatha Christie. Set in post-World War II Italy, Hercule Poirot (Branagh), having lost faith in humanity and his passion for detection, has retired from detective work and living in exile. He is visited by Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey), an old friend and mystery author, and she…

  Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels, the 33rd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, comes on the heels of a scathing Variety article talking about how the MCU is in trouble. Their recent films and shows have been receiving poorer than usual reviews, their box office numbers are not booming to the level they are accustomed to, there are troubles off-screen, and they can’t seem to find their footing in a post-Endgame world. None of this…

  Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla marks the second film involving Elvis Presley to be released in the last eighteen months following Baz Luhrman’s Oscar-nominated film, Elvis. We’ve seen films with similar subjects be released at the same time before, like Deep Impact and Armageddon, Wyatt Earp and Tombstone, Capote and Infamous. Usually when films of similar topics are released around the same time, the two films are constantly compared to which one is better. But that…