WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
Oscar-nominated writer-director Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig are back, bringing their version of Hercule Poirot to the screen for the third time with Craig’s Benoit Blanc in Wake Up Dead Man. Taking inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and the classic locked-room mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, this installment of the enormously entertaining series finds Blanc in a small, upstate New York town, embroiled in an impossible murder focused around the town’s local church and its small but devoted congregation. Led by Craig and Josh O’Connor, the stellar ensemble cast includes Josh Brolin, Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Jeremy Renner, Mila Kunis, and Thomas Haden Church. [144 min; comedy, mystery; English]
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Nathan Johnson, the film’s composer. Johnson is an award-winning composer whose work has been featured in films like Brick, Nightmare Alley, Looper, The Brothers Bloom, and Knives Out, among others.
