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A Haunting in Venice

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  • Title: A Haunting in Venice
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Kenneth Branagh stars and directs in his third adaptation of a Hercule Poirot mystery, this time Agatha Christie‘s 1969 novel Hallowe’en Party. Quite different from the novel, screenwriter Michael Green plays up a supernatural element to the story allowing the film to make use of a host of horror tropes. Relocating the story to Venice, where Poirot (Branagh) has apparently retired, the detective gets dragged into attending a Halloween party and séance by old friend and mystery author Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey) who made them both famous after basing her fictional detective off of Poirot.

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Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories #8

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Set during the rise of the First Order, Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories #8 has Snoke send the bickering pair of Kylo Ren and General Hux to Karaxis to get the planet under control. Challenged by Snoke for a show of strength, both men attempt to bend the locals to their will causing more chaos than loyalty (such as Hux’s plan to unleash Bramalish beasts on the city that then his Stormtroopers can’t corral).

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Futurama – Parasites Regained

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  • Title: Futurama – Parasites Regained
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After Nibbler (Frank Welker) falls ill to the parasites living in his sandbox, slowly making him stupider, the crew uses Professor Farnsworth‘s (Billy West) shrink ray to go into the sandbox and save Nibbler’s mind. The episode is a callback to Fry‘s (West) infestation of worms which made him smarter back in Season Three, but it’s really just an excuse for Futurama to have fun parodying various aspects of Dune. The episode falls apart when Nibbler’s damaged brain decides he’d rather stay dumb, logic that doesn’t make any sense but does offer the chance of a nice bittersweet moment for Leela (Katey Sagal). This is immediately wiped away with Leela’s last-second discovery of how to save Nibbler’s mind (which will likely be ignored for several more episodes until the plot calls for it to be referenced again).

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My Adventures with Superman – Zero Day

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  • Title: My Adventures with Superman – Zero Day
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The two-part “Zero Day” explores the reasons behind Task Force X’s bigoted and racist views on Superman (Jack Quaid) which continue in this episode as their controlled soldiers but the Man of Steel down. The major weakness of the show continues to be its villains which unfortunately is more evident when they are given more screentime. The big reveal in the episodes is apparently Kryptonians, or someone using Kryptonian technology, invaded Earth decades earlier doing rather minimal damage outside of a single government group that included Amanda Waller (Debra Wilson) and General Lane (Joel de la Fuente). Of course, the flashbacks we get don’t explain just who from Krypton might have been involved, what their goal was, or why  the short incursion simply stopped.

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Moon Knight: City of the Dead #2

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The five-issue mini-series continues with Moon Knight searching Duat for the missing Khalil and searching for answers in the underworld with the help of his former girlfriend now spending her days protecting the realm as the Scarlet Scarab. The comic gives us a one-page Cliff’s Notes version of Layla’s journey from archeologist to protector of the City of the Dead in a lull in the pair’s search before things heat up once more.

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