Heard this one before? A detective, a mystery writer and a medium walk into a Halloween party — who’ll come out the winner? The rest of the party include a soprano, a doctor, a nun, a chef, a bodyguard and a very serious little boy. This is the setup for Kenneth Branagh’s “A Haunting in […]
With the tightly wound and classically crafted “A Haunting in Venice,” Director and star Kenneth Branagh breathes new life into his attempt to franchise Agatha Christie for a new generation.
The script, which is adapted by Michael Green, is at its best when the relentlessly logical Poirot finds himself confounded by inexplicable events and flailing about trying to impose order on the chaos he believes must be unleashed if the supernatural is proved to exist.