Having earned raves for bulking up to play the wrestler Mark Kerr in his MMA fighting prime for “The Smashing Machine,” Dwayne Johnson is about to undertake another radical transformation. He’s shedding pounds to portray a ” whimsical, eccentric 70-something year-old” called Chicken Man in “Lizard Music.” The film, which will reunite Johnson with “The Smashing Machine” director Benny Safdie, …
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Private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) might just turn out to be Rian Johnson’s greatest creation. Introduced in 2019’s Knives Out, Blanc’s syrupy Southern drawl and idiosyncratic approach to solving a mysterious New England death charmed audiences worldwide and launched a modern whodunnit franchise. The third installment in the series, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, has already …
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A retired professor at Auburn University was stabbed to death over the weekend in a park near the Alabama college campus, according to Auburn Police and the university. A man has been arrested and charged in her murder. Julie Gard Schnuelle, 59, was attacked Saturday morning in Auburn’s Kiesel Park, which the city says is a large green space with a walking trail …
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Benoit Blanc’s latest mystery requires him to team up with a hot priest. No, not the Hot Priest, though Andrew Scott is hanging around. The latest cussing, unconventional hot priest is played by Josh O’Connor, who helps Blanc (Daniel Craig) investigate the death of Monsignor Wicks (Josh Brolin). “This is a holy mystery… unsolvable,” Glenn Close says rapturously in the …
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An Auburn University professor emerita was killed during the theft of her Ford F-150, according to newly released court documents. Harold Rashad Dabney II, 28, is charged with two counts of capital murder in the weekend slaying of 59-year-old Dr. Julie Gard Schnuelle. Dabney is charged with capital murder during a kidnapping and capital murder during a theft, according to …
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A Black man from South Carolina is calling for hate crime laws to be enacted in the state, one of only two states in the US that do not have them, after being targeted at in a racist attack. Jarvis McKenzie said that on 17 July, while waiting to go to work, a white man in a car picked up …
Read More »TORONTO (AP) — For the third time, the knives were out at the Toronto International Film Festival. Rian Johnson on Saturday night premiered the third movie in his whodunit series, “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.” Like the previous two movies, “Knives Out” and “Glass Onion,” Johnson brought a cavalcade of stars to Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre …
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