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Sound the church bells, a mystery is afoot! Rian Johnson, the acclaimed writer/director of Knives Out and its splashy COVID-lockdown-set sequel The Glass Onion, is back with fresh blood in Wake Up Dead Man. Fans of Daniel Craig’s smooth-as-bourbon Southern detective Benoit Blanc have reason to rejoice, as this third installment is tenaciously twisty, deliciously…

Bryan Fuller has carved his career out of blending whimsy with the macabre. In 2003, he offered Dead Like Me, a sensationally funny and heart-wrenching tale of a young adult whose untimely death turns her into a hapless grim reaper. Four years later, he charmed us again with Pushing Daisies, a murder-mystery show centered around…

If the first five minutes of Scarlet had been the entire movie, I would have been happy. In these opening moments, director Mamoru Hosoda (Belle) transports viewers to a fantastic realm, one where the past and future intertwine. Here, a red-haired young woman wanders a desert wasteland filled with discarded armor and slow-creeping magma flows….

The central locked room mystery of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery sees writer-director Rian Johnson drawing on a long literary history. The film takes many cues from the likes of authors including Agatha Christie and Edgar Allan Poe, but one particular novel is crucial to the core puzzle: John Dickson Carr’s The…

In a few short years, Paul Mescal has gone from rising Irish actor to major movie star with an Academy Award nomination to his credit. His vulnerable turns in Normal People, Aftersun, and All of Us Strangers have secured him a spot in the hallowed halls of Internet Boyfriends. But what sets Mescal apart from…

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Scientists may have missed the mark when they started referring to Uranus and Neptune as the “ice giant” planets of the solar system decades ago.  Like giving a certain short-armed dinosaur a name that means “terrible lizard king,” calling these planets “icy” hasn’t aged well. New research from a team at the University of Zurich…

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