The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is a tetralogy ( formerly a trilogy) of young adult novels that take place After the End in Panem, a nation in what used to be North America that is divided into numbered districts and a large capital city ( the Capitol). The director hasn’t said whether he’ll make more, but he has plenty of material: Poirot appears in 33 novels by Christie, as well as two plays and 51 short stories.- Multiple characters in the series, including President Snow, Effie Trinket, and even Gale and Katniss In an age of Knives Out mysteries and “ See How They Run,” which cheekily tweak the conventions of the genre, Branagh’s films are sterling examples of an increasingly obsolete form of straight-faced whodunit. Set in post-World War II Venice, this is the director’s third Christie adaptation, after “ Murder on the Orient Express” in 2017 and last year’s “ Death on the Nile.” Once again, Branagh plays Christie’s famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, all extravagant mustache and Sherlockian powers of deduction, who comes out of retirement to solve the murder of a guest at a seance he’s reluctantly attending. They don’t make ’em like this anymore: an old-school murder mystery, based on the 1969 novel “ Hallowe’en Party” by the maestra of the genre, Agatha Christie, and featuring a stellar cast, including Michelle Yeoh, Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan, Camille Cottin and Kenneth Branagh.
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