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SDIFF 2025 : Wake Up Dead Man A Knives Out Mystery
San Diego International Film Festival 2025 When the fiery monsignor of a small parish turns up dead and the suspect list is a bit too long, the infamously unique private detective Benoit Blanc is called in to investigate. Who doesn’t want to see Josh Brolin up in a priestly pulpit, shouting fire and condemnation? The man has been everything from Thanos to Cable to Gurney Halleck and beyond, and recently smashed the role of Archer in the breakout horror hit Weapons, so of course we...
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SDAFF 2022 Detectives vs. Sleuths
Hong Kong is plagued by a series of terrible murders, of former suspects in cold cases who’ve evaded capture for years, by a vigilante gang calling themselves the Chosen Sleuths. In order to tell a whole entire story that includes new generations of detectives and...
SDIFF 2022 Dotty and Soul
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After a cancelled Halloween costume scandal, Jewish entrepreneur Ethan Cox decides to try a Trading Places-like attempt at saving his career with Dotty, the charming black lady who sells snacks at his mothers’ hospital! Who does that anymore?...
SDAFF 2022 Ocean City Monster Building
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Set in 1984, the former Mayor of an upstate New York township is found dead with the body of a young girl also in his car, and his family and friends plus an out-of-town Detective attempt to unravel the mystery. So Sally Lambert (Julie Joy...