‘Wake Up Dead Man’ & ‘Hamnet’ Reviews + The Top 10 Movies That Make Us Cry
Project Big Screen
Barstool Sports
4.9 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Project Big Screen, our full panel is back as we review two of the year’s biggest releases: ‘WAKE UP DEAD MAN’ and ‘HAMNET’. Where does the latest Knives Out Mystery rank in Rian Johnson’s whodunnit franchise? And is Jessie Buckley less of a lock for Best Actress than we were led to believe? We also react to industry news, including the Golden Globe nominations — should we care? And we catch up on the movies and series we were watching for the past week… We finish the episode with a ranking of our Top 10 Movies That Make Us Cry — what do you think deserves to go #1? Make sure to like and subscribe — and if you want to be a part of our fan rankings, listen for Gooch’s instructions in this episode on how to join! Timecodes: || Intro - (0:00) || Wake Up Dead Man Review - (2:37) || Wake Up Dead Man SPOILERS - (14:34) || Ad - (26:01) || Hamnet Review - (27:13) || Hamnet SPOILERS - (44:26) || Ad - (48:43) || Ella McCay Reactions - (49:55) || Golden Globe Nominations - (1:03:27) || Supergirl Trailer - (1:13:23) || The Drama Trailer - (1:19:08) || Warner Bros Update - (1:20:03) || Doomsday Marketing - (1:20:34) || Megalopolis Returns - (1:23:22) || What We’re Watching - (1:25:05) || Top 10 Tearjerkers - (1:33:11) Follow us on Social Media: barstool.link/pbs X | Twitter | Letterboxd: @ProjBigScreen IG | Tik Tok: @ProjectBigScreen Our Personal Letterboxds: Jeff: @JeffDLowe Gooch: @Bobby_Gooch Kenjac: @Kenjac Klemmer: @ChrisKlemmer Kirk: @KirkMinihane
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Project Big Screen listeners. You can find us every Monday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. |
| 0:05.6 | Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:12.6 | On this episode of Project Big Screen, we have reviews for Wake Up Dead Man, the new movie |
| 0:20.1 | in the Knives Out franchise. |
| 0:21.8 | The third one, it's on Netflix right now, but was in theaters as well. |
| 0:24.6 | We also have reviews of Hamnet, a big-time Oscar contender, doing our top 10 movies that make you cry as well. |
| 0:32.2 | And we will talk a little bit about the new Avengers Doomsday trailer news, kind of crazy news on that one. |
| 0:37.8 | All that and more coming up on Project Big Screen. |
| 0:40.3 | All right, Project Big Screen, episode 11, middle of December. |
| 0:45.2 | We are nearing the end. |
| 0:47.4 | Only two more weeks of, or two and a half, whatever it is, more weeks of movies left on the docket for 2025. And we have two pretty |
| 0:56.8 | hefty releases in terms of notoriety. We have Wake Up Dead Man, Knives Out Mystery. Very excited to |
| 1:05.1 | talk about this one. And Hammett, very excited to talk about this one, an Oscar contender and |
| 1:09.8 | player for the upcoming award seasons. And then if you want to talk about Oscar cont, an Oscar contender and player for the upcoming award seasons. |
| 1:12.3 | And then if you want to talk about Oscar contenders, we will have a little bit of an extend review on Ella McKay, a movie that is. |
| 1:20.1 | I'm going to read the tweet, Kirk, that you sent me yesterday. |
| 1:22.7 | Yeah, I'm not sure. |
| 1:23.2 | I think this is real? |
| 1:26.0 | I'm 90% sure it's real. |
| 1:28.6 | L. |
| 1:28.8 | McCann, Peoria, Illinois sold zero seats across eight showings |
| 1:32.5 | starting December 13th for 24 hours. |
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