MOVIE REVIEW: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Make a movie or show about a real-life serial killer with an actual body count of documented victims that used to live among us, and you’re frosting spines, locking your doors, and doom-scrolling the true story. Make a sly, stylish, spooky, or quirky movie of imaginary people getting slain in grandiose fashion, and you’re popping extra popcorn, smiling with delight, and relaxing anxiety-free on your couch. What a funny and fascinating development that is!

4 STARS, 2025, Chicago Film Festival, Film Festival, MOVIE REVIEWDon ShanahanNovember 25, 2025Wake Up Dead Man, Knives Out, Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, Josh Brolin, Glenn Close, Thomas Haden Church, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Jeremy Renner, Kerry WashingtonComment

MOVIE REVIEW: Blue Moon

Richard Linklater, through thick and thin over the years, has never sunk as low as where Lorenz Hart finished his life and career, partially because he, too, has the same inextinguishable zest to challenge and create, and puts it on screen every chance he gets. Keep going, Richard. We’re here for it.