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. First up is …
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N atasha Lyonne thinks that the very idea of lying is bullshit. “I don’t think I believe in it philosophically, as a concept,” she says. “When people lie, on a deep level, I’m perplexed that they don’t seem to know that we’re going to die and that their lie doesn’t …
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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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The good people at Netflix would prefer that reviewers, critics, pundits, wags, culture vultures and other assorted ne’er-do-wells who write about movies on the internet not spoil any of the many twists and turns of Glass Onion, the much-anticipated sequel to Rian Johnson‘s 2019 tribute/throwback to whodunnits Knives Out. It’s …
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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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