![]() ![]() “A Haunting in Venice” is set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve and is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot. “A Haunting in Venice” arrives in theaters on September 15. ![]() For this film, the filmmaker has enlisted Kyle Allen (“ Rosaline”), Camille Cottin (“ Call My Agent”), Jamie Dornan (“ Belfast”), Tina Fey (“ 30 Rock”), Jude Hill (“ Belfast”), Ali Khan (“ 6 Underground”), Emma Laird (“ Mayor of Kingstown”), Kelly Reilly (“ Yellowstone”), Riccardo Scamarcio (“ Caravaggio’s Shadow”), and Michelle Yeoh (“ Everything Everywhere All At Once”) to star opposite himself. This is a Kenneth Branagh film in the Agatha Christie universe, so you know it’s going to have a great cast. READ MORE: ‘Death On The Nile’ Review: Kenneth Branagh’s Latest Agatha Christie Adaptation is Another Lead-Footed Drag ![]() That said, this is a mystery story, so perhaps the haunting isn’t exactly what it seems. At least, it looks like it went terribly wrong as a spirit seems to be terrifying various beautiful people. And believe it or not, the latest Agatha Christie mystery film, “ A Haunting in Venice,” looks like a straight-up horror film.Īs seen in the teaser for the film, “A Haunting in Venice” tells the story of a séance gone wrong. ![]() While I may not be the biggest fan of Kenneth Branagh’s recent Hercule Poirot films, you have to hand it to the filmmaker-he knows how to change things up when the time is right. ![]()
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Many of his books feature a grimoire (my favourite word ever) called the Necronomican, which was written eons ago by a man called Abdul al-Hazred in Sana'a, Yemen. ![]() A writer of horror and science fiction, Lovecraft's guiding principle was that the universe is incomprehensible and terrifyingly alien, and that there somewhere exists an abyss which, should we have the misfortune to gaze into it, will rob us for ever of our sanity. T he American writer HP Lovecraft, who died in 1937, has been called "the man who scares Stephen King". ![]() ![]() ![]() This writer inspired "To Be Young, Gifted and Black," song of Nina Simone. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" Hansberry moved to city of New York and afterward worked at the pan-Africanist newspaper Freedom, where she dea People know American playwright Lorraine Vivian Hansberry for her play A Raisin in the Sun (1959). Family of the author struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant and eventually provoking the Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Her best known work highlights the lives of Blacks under racial segregation in Chicago. She, the first such Black woman, wrote a play, performed on Broadway. ![]() People know American playwright Lorraine Vivian Hansberry for her play A Raisin in the Sun (1959). ![]() ![]() ![]() Unappreciated in his time, Lovecraft died with relatively little fame. These were tales of larger than life entities that led humans to be invalid, and grimoires of magical rites and forbidden works. The most enduring of Lovecraft’s creations is that of Cthulhu Mythos and the Necronomicon. These creatures used their powers in subtle ways over humans and led the latter into madness. ![]() Lovecraft crafted stories of powerful entities, supernatural and extraterrestrial that held immense power. His stories were known to be dark, chilling, and filled with evils from another world. Influenced by World War I, Lovecraft’s story centered on a central theme: the horrors man inflicts on others. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft used New England as a backdrop to his tales. Instead, humanity itself was seen as insignificant. He coined the idea of cosmic horror, a concept that stated that the universe and its working were beyond any sort of human comprehension. For Lovecraft, fear was not just about what was on earth, but beyond that. A cult figure, Lovecraft took a different approach to science fiction and horror. ![]() The brainchild of famed 1920s author, HP Lovecraft, these symbols depicted different gods, creatures, and other flights of fantasies created by Lovecraft in his rich literary world. 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But nothing - not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of death by hunger, disease or dehydration as they drifted for days - could quench their desire to make a better life in the country they had dreamed about. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. Print The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir (HB)Īnh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. ![]() ![]() ![]() His ill treatment finally extends even to the beloved Pluto. Over time, the narrator’s growing dependency on alcohol causes his temperament to change toward his pets and his wife, and he begins physically abusing both. ![]() His wife continually makes half-serious references to the folk belief that black cats are witches in disguise. The cat, Pluto, becomes a favorite pet and accompanies the narrator around the house and often in the streets. He marries young, and his wife shares his disposition toward animals, gifting him a large black cat that is both “beautiful” and “sagacious to an astonishing degree” (223). He compares the unreliable nature of humans with the steadfastness of his animal companions. The narrator describes his youth and early affinity toward animals, for which he is mocked by his peers and indulged by his parents with various pets. Though his story terrifies him, a “more logical” mind may find it completely ordinary or detect a chain of cause and effect. This study guide refers to the version of “The Black Cat” published in The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Vintage Books, September 1975).Ĭontent Warning: This short story contains depictions of animal cruelty, alcohol addiction, domestic violence, and mental illness.Īn unnamed narrator indicates he is to be executed the next day and promises to tell his tale, cautioning that it is both “homely” and “wild.” He says he will present the mysterious events “plainly, succinctly, and without comment” (223), leaving their interpretation up to future readers. ![]() ![]() Trump declined to sit down for an interview with Woodward for “Fear,” but he gave the journalist unprecedented access for “Rage,” granting 18 free-ranging interviews, some in-person and many over the phone. “Rage,” which came out last year, took readers inside the Oval Office during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, confirming that Trump understood how contagious and deadly the virus was long before the American people were made aware. Woodward’s first book on Trump, 2018’s “Fear,” detailed the measures taken by top officials and White House aides to prevent what they saw as a president unhinged, unable to control his own impulses, and unaware of how much danger his rash decisions could bring. ![]() ![]() According to a description from the publisher, the book will stretch into the early months of the Biden presidency. This time, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is working with Robert Costa of The Washington Post for an extensive look into the end of the Trump presidency and its transition to the Biden administration. The title of the book has not yet been announced, but CNN has learned that it will be published on September 21 by Simon & Schuster, which published Woodward’s first two bestsellers on the former President. Legendary investigative journalist Bob Woodward has already covered fear and rage within the Trump White House, and soon, he will release a third book on Donald Trump’s final days in office. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cooley, Ph.D., author of A Practical Guide to Mental Health & Learning Disorders for Every Educator and an expert in the field with more than forty years of experience, Name and Tame Your Anxiety provides practical strategies to help kids manage anxiety, including: Written by a parent whose child has anxiety and vetted by Myles L. In kid-friendly language, award-winning Name and Tame Your Anxiety explains what anxiety is, how it works, and how to manage it. 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And they don’t like government and they don’t like to pay taxes.”įrom the moment he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1979 by Jimmy Carter with a mission to support the president’s war on inflation, Volcker was in the public eye. “We’ve got an enormous number of enormously rich people that have convinced themselves that they’re rich because they’re smart and constructive. “The central issue is we’re developing into a plutocracy,” he told the New York Times. In 2018, he published a memoir, Keeping at It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government, and expressed concern about the direction of the federal government and the loss of respect for it. ![]() Paul Volcker testifying on Capitol Hill in 1984. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon the walls around Chase’s heart are crumbling. But Alexandra is more than he bargained for: clever, perceptive, passionate. When a stubborn little governess tries to reform him, he decides to prove he can’t be tamed. 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