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Now Streaming: Jack Ryan Season 1

Josh Zyber — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:00:35 +0000

Now on its fifth actor to play the lead role, the Jack Ryan franchise has had nearly as many reboots as James Bond in half the time. The latest iteration brings Tom Clancy’s famed intelligence analyst to the small screen courtesy of Amazon Prime streaming. How well does the property translate to episodic television? Perhaps...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movies About Politics

Josh Zyber — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 19:00:07 +0000

Politics are all over the news lately. A number of local and state elections take place next week. More than that, you can’t turn on the TV or open social media without hearing about one major scandal or another. Setting aside the real-world disaster that is our current political landscape, what are your favorite movies...

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Now Playing: Footloose and Clancy Free

Philip Brown — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:00:16 +0000

Despite what Hollywood believes, not all successful film franchises need to be rebooted. Sometimes the success of a certain series has as much to do with the time of release as anything else. Case in point would be ‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’. The Kenneth Branagh-helmed attempt to bring back Tom Clancy’s superspy isn’t a terrible...

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The Trailer Park: Monsters, Spies & Hobbits

M. Enois Duarte — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 19:00:25 +0000

The end-of-the-year cinematic lineup promises some thrills, adventure and lots of escapist fantasy. Yet only one new trailer has me convinced to pay the theater price to watch its movie on a big screen. ‘I, Frankenstein’ I’m a dork for all things ‘Frankenstein’-related, and this trailer makes me feel like the world’s biggest dork ever,...

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One Ping Only – R.I.P. Tom Clancy

Josh Zyber — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 19:00:07 +0000

Tom Clancy, the prolific bestselling author, creator of the Jack Ryan movie franchise and namesake mastermind behind numerous popular videogames, passed away this week at the age of 66. That seems like far too young an age to go. At the same time, I’m a little surprised that he was only 66. It feels like...

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Videogame Releases: Week of May 20th, 2012

Brian Hoss — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:00:15 +0000

Two major releases vie for gamers’ post-‘Diablo’ dollars this week, and yet several other titles would also kindly ask you to purchase them as well. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (360, PS3) Sadly, this game doesn’t involve Jack Ryan recruiting Casper the Friendly Ghost for CIA field work. Rather, Ubisoft continues to utilize the...

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