Dean Gilbert's Mysterious Entertainment Blog

      I know that you would like to use your time well, even your leisure time. I want to tell you why you should spend some time reading this blog.     First of all, it could save you time. It is written to help you find entertainment that you will enjoy, based on my own tastes and research. So you can expect to learn about mystery, puzzles, and magic in my posts. The media I explore will include movies, TV shows, books, audiobooks, podcasts, games, video games, and puzzles. Most will be mystery or crime themed. Many will be older but still available.     Second, you may save money, I will often hunt down entertainment that comes from free streaming services, or from podcasts or online libraries.     Third. I will be keeping standards high. There is a lot of junk out there. My small knowledge of older entertainment is growing, and some vintage shows or books are still worth viewing, hearing, or reading. I will let you know when I like someth...

 I apologize -  this should have been posted last night.  More reports on recommended reading, watching, and playing out soon. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I have not been blogging recently but that is easy to explain: I have a full-time job, a part-time job, a commute of one-and-a-half hours each way most days, and a side business. But tonight I found the energy for the simple reason that I really enjoyed a show enough to get the word out. I have been following the Knives Out movies since the first. I found that first movie interesting, but very focussed on a specific political message. The second was more neutral than the first and was just more fun. I do find that the main character, private detective Benoit Blanc, played by Daniel Craig, to be a little hard to accept as a brilliant sleuth. The clues are good, his observations of them lead to a satisfying conclusion of the mysteries, but the general character doesn't seem to be a man who notices things or has subtle reasoning going on. That does clear up a bit in the newest Knives Out movie, Wake Up Dead Man. I won't spend  a lot of time critiquing the other two movies because ...