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The series of murder mysteries that began with the 2019 film Knives Out and continued with the 2022 film Glass Onion is set to keep on going with Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, which has writer/director Rian Johnson back at the helm. Johnson and his collaborators are being very secretive about this project right now, but there’s a lot of hype for it – so we figured this would be a good time to start assembling a list of Everything We Know About Wake Up Dead Man. Here we go:

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Johnson got the title Knives Out from a Radiohead song. When it came time to make the sequel Glass Onion, he got the title from a song by The Beatles. So it’s only fitting that the third film in the franchise have a song-inspired title as well. But while Radiohead and The Beatles were from England,...

The gun rings out, the character drops to the floor – another mystery procedural has begun! TV sleuths have 60 minutes (at least!) to figure out whodunnit. To Jacob Coakley and Jessica Hird, co-hosts of the Cluedunnit podcast, that seems like entirely too much time. On each episode of their comedy TV rewatch podcast Cluedunnit, they immediately guess the perp before there are any commercials – or clues.

“Every mystery starts a new game,” says Hird. “Of all the various suspects, who do you bet on? Guy-With-a-Mustache? Lady Germaphobe? Or Sexy-Stranger-With-The-Menacing-Stare?”

“Mystery novels were originally called ‘The Grandest Game’ by mystery author John Dickson Carr,” adds Coakley. “He argued that a good detective story was a hoodwinking contest, a duel between author and reader. Well, in any duel it’s always best to shoot first. So we go off half-cocked, making the best guesses we can, as soon as we can. Of course,...

"Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" is set to come out in theaters next week before it makes its way to Netflix in December. It's a mystery murder movie with many delightful layers to it (pun intended), and the film features a star-studded ensemble cast who play a gaggle of characters who reflect the world we live in -- for better or worse.

In the lead-up to the movie's theatrical premiere, I had the chance to talk with writer/director Rian Johnson about how he approached creating the unique suite of characters in "Glass Onion," including how he wove those characters into the film's overall story. We also talked about what whodunit sub-genres he'd love to tackle next, and how a certain cameo came to be. Read on for that discussion!

'I Was Trying To Pick People Who Have Very Different Flavors'

This interview has been lightly edited for clarity and brevity.

As Disney quietly disappears huge swathes of film history into its vaults, I'm going to spend 2020 celebrating Twentieth Century Fox and the Fox Film Corporation's films, what one might call their output if only someone were putting it out.And now they've quietly disappeared William Fox's name from the company: guilty by association with Rupert Murdoch, even though he never associated with him.***Dangerous Crossing was directed by Joseph M. Newman in 1953, not long before the one title he's semi-remembered for, This Island Earth. It seems to have been greenlit as a B-picture to take advantage of the sets built for Fox's Titanic, as it's an ocean voyage mystery.Newlywed Jeanne Crain boards ship with her husband, who promptly vanishes, and nobody will admit to ever having seen him. Of course the plot kernel was used before, by writers Launder and Gilliat for director Hitchcock in The Lady Vanishes.

Rian Johnson’s Agatha Christie-inspired whodunnit “Knives Out” just made its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, and fest-goers are eating up this tale of rich people gone murderously insane. Opening November 27 from Lionsgate, “Knives Out” is written and directed by Johnson, last seen behind the camera on “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” marking a return to original form. The film boasts an embarrassingly rich top-drawer cast, including Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Lakeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, and Christopher Plummer.

IndieWire critic David Ehrlich similarly gushed over the film in his review. “Rian Johnson’s ‘Knives Out’ — a crackling, devious, and hugely satisfying old-school whodunnit with a modern twist — wants you to know that it takes place in the world of today. In fact, it wants you to know that it wants you to know.

Badla movie review is here. The highly awaited crime thriller starring Amitabh Bachchan and Taapsee Pannu is released today. Produced by Shah Rukh Khan?s Red Chillies Entertainment in association with Azure Entertainment, the movie is directed by Kahaani series fame Sujoy Ghosh. Does Badla that sees the reunion of the magnificent Amitabh Bachchan with Taapsee Pannu after the incredible Pink, captivates the audience to the hilt? Let?s find out in the Badla movie review.

Immediate reaction after watching Badla

Three cheers to Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu and Sujoy Ghosh, the Kahaani of triumph (story) gets repeated and with aplomb. Badla is a rare revenge drama, spell bindingly sensational, a terrific knock out.

The most incredible/astonishing feature of Badla

After a long time in Bollywood mainstream cinema, a revenge drama, a crime thriller that is not just a bang on right from the wor go, it dares to...

A suitable case for further study: Bodil Ipsen, a Danish movie star in light romantic roles (from 1913) who became a director in the forties, specializing in dark melodramas and noir. She made ten films in ten years, winning the Bodil Award several times. Well, it was named for her, after all.Half of Ipsen's films are co-directed with Lau Loritzen Jr., a fellow actor and studio boss, but a good one she helmed solo is Murder Melody, whose hectic 74 mins packs in a policier, a backstage drama, a love triangle and a dose of the uncanny, with a touch of the city-under-siege narrative at play also. The last genre is really a consequence of the film's multiplicity of characters, the script opting to throw in a new speaking part every few seconds in case we get bored looking at the people we've already got. The expanding web of subplots seems...