Glenn Close lets out a guttural scream in the Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery teaser trailer. Josh O’Connor has blood on his hands. Andrew Scott is being eaten alive by catholic guilt. And above all, Daniel Craig‘s Benoit Blanc is back to get to the bottom of …
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This will be a spoiler-free review of Wake Up Dead Man. Mostly. We will tell you that it is Rian Johnson‘s third movie in his murder-mystery franchise involving a deductive sleuth mixing it up with a host of classic murder-mystery archetypes. We will list its cast members, which — as …
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Rian Johnson, the writer and director behind Knives Out and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, loves whodunits, particularly due to “how malleable the genre is,” he shared on X last month. Johnson, who considers Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile(1978) andEvil Under the Sun(1982) touchstone films, announced the latest …
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Benoit Blanc will return next year, with filmmaker Rian Johnson revealing the name of his next mystery film, Wake Up Dead Man. The announcement was accompanied by a short animated teaser featuring narration from Daniel Craig as Blanc, recounting his past adventures in Knives Out and Glass Onion and setting …
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J anelle Monáe slides down the front zipper on her onesie, slings the suit down her back, and wiggles her bare ass toward about 20 of her dear friends. It’s game night at Wondaland West, the homey Los Angeles campus where Janelle works and communes, complete with a studio, living …
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For those immune to the charms of Elon Musk’s Twitter™ — a Squid Game-like arena teeming with edgelords, crypto enthusiasts, men’s rights activists who resemble Pitbull, and daily spam messages touting “part-time work” — the current film brouhaha may have escaped notice. In short: a trio of films, eagerly anticipated …
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Rian Johnson has a vision for the collection of mysteries Benoit Blanc will go on to solve in his future films, each different from the last. And the key to fulfilling his dream of reaching the heights of whodunits made by the likes of Agatha Christie was rooted in allowing …
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Don’t ask Daniel Craig to make any predictions about your life span. The former James Bond actor said he was already thinking of the death of his character shortly after he made his debut as 007 in 2006’s Casino Royale. In a new interview with the Sunday Times he said …
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Benoit Blanc returns to the scene of the crime in the first trailer for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the second entry in Rian Johnson’s series of whodunit films starring Daniel Craig as an unusual mystery-exploring detective. Set in Greece, a new host of characters (read: suspects) plan a …
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Daniel Craig is once again swapping out his James Bond state of mind for the Mississippi drawl of Benoit Blanc in the long-awaited sequel to Rian Johnson’s 2019 film Knives Out. This time around, the hyper-focused detective is heading to Greece in the newly revealed Glass Onion: A Knives Out …
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