Gary Soneji and Kyle Craig better watch out because Alex Cross is coming to television. Variety exclusively reports that James Patterson’s iconic thriller novels are being adapted into a TV series by Amazon. The books, which began with 1993’s Along Came a Spider, center on the widowed protagonist Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson,…
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*SPOILERS* “The Long Night” opens with everyone preparing for the coming battle. Sam arrives at the front. Melisandre comes and enchants the fighters’ swords. She tells Davos that she’ll be dead by the dawn. The dead attack, and Jon and Daenerys mount their dragons to set them ablaze. Edd dies protecting Sam from a walker….
Today I decided to see the new movie adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary. I haven’t seen the older film or read King’s novel, so I went in more or less blind, armed only with the knowledge of what has been presented in the trailers. Adaptations of King’s work are numerous and, as such, their…
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 novel of the same name by Brian Aldiss,…
“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 the film’s trailers and cast…
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), the film reunites the Talladega Nights and…