Monday, 1 December 2025

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We went to see Wake Up Dead Man (Knives Out #3) in the cinema today.  It's only on for a week, because it is a Netflix film.  They need a cinematic release for it to be considered for awards, but want to minimise the time, so people will pay for it on Netflix.  We missed Glass Onion for this reason, and didn't want to miss out again.  (We don't do Netflix.)

It was excellent.  If you enjoyed the complexity, clues, and red herrings in Knives Out, this is just more so.

In the cinema foyer, there was an advert for Zootropolis 2 (the UK name for Zootopia 2).  The name caught my eye.  It seems to be a back formation from "metropolis".  But that is a combination of "metro" and "polis".  So really it should be Zoopolis 2?  But for a moment I thought the suffix was actually "opolis", in which case it would be Zooopolis 2.  I'm willing to believe this is the case, just to have a word with three consecutive "o"s.