Wake Up Dead Man A Knives Out Mystery Movie Review

 

Wake Up Dead Man 2025
 
A Hollywood director takes on Christianity and MAGA

 

SPOILER ALERT: this review will reveal the endings of all three Knives Out films.

 

Wake Up Dead Man is a 2025 murder mystery written and directed by Rian Johnson. Wake Up Dead Man opened in the US on November 26, 2025, and then began streaming on Netflix on December 12th. It is roughly two and a half hours long. The film reportedly cost $151 million.

 

Wake Up Dead Man is the third entry in the Knives Out franchise; the first was 2019's Knives Out; the second was 2022's Glass Onion. The franchise stars celebrity detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), a gay Southerner with a Foghorn Leghorn accent. The films feature high production values, witty, literate scripts, and all-star casts. They are mostly family-friendly, with few f-bombs, and no nudity, earning PG-13 ratings. They have been hailed as a return to Golden Age Hollywood glamor and storytelling, and classic Agatha-Christie-style whodunits.

 

Johnson's politics saturate his plots. Knives Out, the first film in the franchise, skewers white Americans with inherited wealth and upholds vulnerable, victimized, and virtuous Hispanic immigrant laborers. Glass Onion critiques tech bros. A rich white man cheats a black woman and drives her to suicide; her heroic sister avenges her death.

 

This review will offer a summary of Wake Up Dead Man's convoluted, implausible plot. It will then discuss the film's critical reception. This review will close with my own reaction.

New Jersey Jews Are Living in Fear: NJ.Com

 

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"I Was the Nuremberg Jailer" Book Review

 

When the “Master Race” Sat in a Jail Cell

A powerful book unveils Nazism after the lights went out.

I Was the Nuremberg Jailer is 211 pages long, inclusive of an index and black-and-white photographs. Coward-McCann Incorporated published Nuremberg Jailer in 1969 and it is currently out of print. I found a copy through inter-library loan. It is also available at Archive.org.

I've read a lot of books about World War II. I Was the Nuremberg Jailer may be my favorite. It's a punchy, no-nonsense exposé by US Army Colonel Burton C. Andrus. For eighteen months, Andrus served as commandant of the prison housing twenty-one Nazis who were to face the International Military Tribunal, or IMT, at Nuremberg in post-World-War-II Germany in 1945.

Slovak-Canadian Model Alleges She Was Kicked out of Uber in Toronto for Being Jewish

 This meme is circulating on social media and some news outlets are covering the story. Will seek updates. 

NYC principal denies request for Holocaust survivor to speak at school: ‘Given his messages’: New York Post

 Full story here

Left-wing antisemitism in a meme

 

Poland summons Israeli ambassador over Yad Vashem post: Reuters

 "WARSAW, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Poland summoned Israel's ambassador on Monday over a tweet from a Holocaust memorial institute that Warsaw said did not make clear that occupying Nazi German forces, and not Polish authorities, made Jews wear star badges during World War Two.

Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski was protesting against a social media post in which Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial institution to the victims of the Holocaust, wrote that Poland was the first country where Jews were forced to wear "a distinctive badge to isolate them from the surrounding population".

The problem is, of course, that "Poland" did not force Jews to wear a badge. Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. These powers crucified Poland. Occupying Nazis, not Poles, forced the Jews to wear a badge. 

Full Reuters story here.