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Wake Up Dead Man

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  • Title: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
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Rian Johnson‘s Knives Out, which introduced us to world-famous detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), was my favorite film of 2019 featuring a perfect blend of mystery, drama, and comedy. Three years later Johnson and Craig would return for the notably more comedic Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. And, now, three years later they return for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery which, although it still contains humor and wit (especially in the first half-hour), overcorrects to be the darkest and most serious of the three films.

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Zootopia 2

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  • Title: Zootopia 2
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We don’t get very many mainstream animated feature films centered around a mystery, especially from Disney. While the 2016 film wasn’t as big a hit as Finding Dory, it still cleaned up at the box office and earned enough to deliver a new mystery to be solved by our intrepid bunny and wiley fox team (even if it did take nearly a decade).

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The Carpenter’s Son

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  • Title: The Carpenter’s Son
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For every highlight of Nicolas Cage‘s career there are three or four baffling choices which we can now add The Carpenter’s Son to the list. Inspired by the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, the film offers a look at the adolescence of Jesus Christ (Noah Jupe) coming into his powers and knowledge of his destiny. Cage, as you might expect, plays the carpenter Joseph who struggles to keep the boy safe and hidden while also attempting to forcibly instill his own sense of piety.

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Keeper

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  • Title: Keeper
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In horror there’s a thin line between scary and silly and for far too much of the first hour of director Osgood Perkins‘ Keeper doesn’t click. A year into their relationship, Liz (Tatiana Maslany) goes away for the weekend with her boyfriend Malcolm (Murder in a Small Town‘s Rossif Sutherland) to his far-from-rustic cabin. Despite her concerns, she’s far from roughing it.

Out of her element, Liz begins to grow paranoid and starts to see or hallucinate odd things in her boyfriend’s home. The question becomes whether the not-exactly-reliable protagonist is imagining things, if something is clouding her judgement, or if there are dark and supernatural events occurring.

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Rental Family

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  • Title: Rental Family
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Based on a real practice in Japan where a company offers professional stand-ins to clients, Rental Family stars Brendan Fraser as a struggling actor living in Japan who is initially hired to be a token white guy for a client setting up their own funeral. Confused, but in need of work, Phillip (Fraser) agrees further roles (most of which are covered in montages while two key roles make up the core of the main story).

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