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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 …

This post contains spoilers for the Season Two finale of Poker Face, now streaming on Peacock. The second season of Poker Face nearly ends on a cliffhanger. Towards the end of the finale —appropriately titled “The End of the Road” — the show’s human lie detector heroine, Charlie Cale(Natasha Lyonne), …

This post contains spoilers for the first three episodes of Poker Face Season Two, now streaming on Peacock. The first season of Poker Face had a fairly straightforward premise and structure. Each week, Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie Cale would drive into a new locale, discover that a murder had taken place, …

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 …

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 …

Cord Jefferson wants to tell a quick story. It involves something that happened to a friend of his, although the writer-director of American Fiction is quick to point out that the incident in question could have easily happened to any number of Black creatives he knows, or for that matter, …

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 …

During the course of reporting a feature on Peacock’s delightful upcoming mystery series Poker Face, we got far more material from creator Rian Johnson and star Natasha Lyonne than could comfortably fit. So as a bonus, we’re giving you some highlights from the rest of our conversations. Last week, we …

Once upon a time, most of television was like Poker Face, the new Peacock drama created by Glass Onion’s Rian Johnson and starring Russian Doll’s Natasha Lyonne. It is a purely episodic, case-of-the-week show. Each episode sets up its own specific story, which Lyonne’s Charlie Cale finds a way to …

You can call Fair Play a lot of things: a finance-industy psychodrama about paying the cost to be the boss, a treatise on power dynamics in relationships, the surprise hit out of Sundance’s first weekend and the film festival’s first big-ticket sales item. (How Netflix plans on recouping its $20 …