Tag: Mystery

  • A Haunting in Venice Trailer Arrives

    A Haunting in Venice Trailer Arrives

    Today, Twentieth Century Studios released a teaser for A Haunting in Venice. This is the third installment in Kenneth Branagh’s series of Hercule Poirot adaptations. Check out the latest adventure for Agatha Christie’s Inspector:   A teaser shouldn’t show too much, and this one doesn’t, but it looks good. It seems like more of a classic…

  • REVIEW: Carnival Row – Season 2, Episodes 9 and 10, “Battle Lines” and “Carnival Row”

    REVIEW: Carnival Row – Season 2, Episodes 9 and 10, “Battle Lines” and “Carnival Row”

    ***SPOILERS*** “Battle Lines” finds Tourmaline realizing the extent of her powers. Leonora asks Vignette to join the New Dawn so the Ravens will follow. Imogen wonders if she should address parliament. Philo asks Tourmaline to cast a spell to draw the sparas out. Millworthy is going to arrest Imogen and Agreus, but they convince him…

  • Jenna Ortega Changed Wednesday Scripts

    Jenna Ortega Changed Wednesday Scripts

    Jenna Ortega recently appeared on the Armchair Expert podcast and spoke about her work on Netflix’s Wednesday – namely, she re-wrote parts of the show’s script. Check out an excerpt here: “When I read the entire series, I realized, ‘Oh, this is for younger audiences… When I first signed onto the show, I didn’t have…

  • REVIEW: Marlowe (2023)

    REVIEW: Marlowe (2023)

    To call Marlowe a wannabe noir film would be to ascribe to it aspirations it doesn’t have. Marlowe isn’t trying to capture a time and place, evoke a particular tone or feel, replicate a form of dialogue, or even basic things like engage you in a mystery or surround you with compelling characters. Marlowe simply…

  • Marlowe Trailer Promises a Hard-Boiled Throwback

    Marlowe Trailer Promises a Hard-Boiled Throwback

    Raymond Chandler’s legendary detective, Philip Marlowe, is returning to the big screen as Open Road Films has released a trailer for Marlowe. Based on The Black-Eyed Blonde, a continuation of Chandler’s classic mystery series written by John Banville (under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, which he uses to write crime fiction), Marlowe finds the prototypical gumshoe…

  • Velma Trailer is a Warning to Potential Viewers

    Velma Trailer is a Warning to Potential Viewers

    If you always thought Scooby-Doo needed more lecturing and less Scooby-Doo, I hope you’ve kept up your HBO Max subscription because the streamer just released a trailer for its update of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon, Velma. Produced by and starring Mindy Kaling, who would have to see a doctor if she ever stopped wagging her…