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You Should Be Watching: Frankenstein Unbound (1990)

virginiakublawi | Oct 28, 2018 | 0

Welcome back to You Should Be Watching, my weekly recommendation of movie and TV offerings that don’t get the attention they deserve. This week for our last Halloween pick of the year, we’ll be time traveling with John Hurt in Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound. Adapted from the n...

REVIEW: The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

virginiakublawi | Sep 29, 2018 | 0

“There’s a clock in the walls. We don’t know what it does, except… something horrible.” Last Friday, Universal released The House with a Clock in Its Walls, based on the 1973 John Bellairs children’s mystery novel of the same name. I had never read or heard of the book, but t...

Holmes & Watson Trailer Investigates the Funny Bone

AlexGherzo | Sep 29, 2018 | 0

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman can take all the vacation time they need because we’ve just gotten our first glimpse of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as perhaps literature’s most celebrated dynamic duo in the Holmes & Watson trailer. Directed by Etan Cohen (of Ferrell’s Get Hard)...

You Should Be Watching: Extraordinary Tales (2015)

virginiakublawi | Sep 9, 2018 | 0

“Sometimes I think the only thing that kept me from you was my beating heart. Welcome back to You Should Be Watching, where I recommend movies and TV series that deserve more recognition. This week we’re looking at Extraordinary Tales, an internationally produced anthology of Edgar Allan Poe ada...

REVIEW: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Season 1

mikecalkins | Sep 2, 2018 | 0

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is the second true reboot of the Clancy character, after 2014’s Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. This time around, the analyst-turned field operative is played by John Krasinski, four years into his tenure at the CIA. Ryan has been looking into a possible terrorist cell, led by ...

You Should Be Watching: Finding Neverland (2004)

virginiakublawi | Aug 12, 2018 | 0

“You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there’s always someone who wants to destroy it.” Welcome back to You Should Be Watching, where I recommend movies and shows that deserve more attention. This week I’ll be looking at Finding Neverland, Marc Forster’s fantastical po...