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What To Watch This Week

Monday

What sounds like a pretty lame series about an ex-CIA agent turned traitor who teams up with an FBI agent to…zzzzzzz…oh, sorry I dozed off there… As I was saying The Enemy Within on NBC sounds pretty dumb but it’s being co-executive produced by Mark Pellington who directed the wonderful The Mothman Prophecies so I might check this one out.

Tuesday

The big animated hit of last winter Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is available for digital download today.

Saturday

Beginning early Saturday morning TCM is set to air a whole slew of great sci-fi movies including Logan’s Run, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010, Marooned, The Time Machine, Forbidden Planet, Them!, Destination Moon and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

TV

Barry second season preview

The Twilight Zone reboot preview

What To Watch This Week

Tuesday

Two movies are available on digital download today, the first is the post-apocalyptic sci-fi flick Mortal Engines and the second the Oscar contender Green Book.

Wednesday

The third season of the hilarious faux IFC documentary series Documentary Now starring Fred Arminsen and Bill Hader premiers tonight.

TV

The Hot Zone preview

Love Death + Robots preview

The Reading & Watch List

• Advertisers Warm to Fledgling Alliance of American Football
• ‘Project Blue Book’ Renewed for Season 2 on History
• Will Sirius Disappear on February 18th?
• An obituary for the Airbus A380

What To Watch This Week

Sunday

The mid-season premiere of The Walking Dead shambles onto TV screens on AMC tonight

Tuesday

The new TBS series Miracle Workers a comedy about an angel (Daniel Radcliffe) trying to stop the destruction of the Earth because of a bored God (Steve Buscemi) begins Tuesday.

There are several movies set to be released on digital download today including Ralph Breaks the Internet and Creed II.

Thursday

Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes the long-delayed Alita: Battle Angel in theaters.

Friday

Based on the comic book of the same name all episodes of The Umbrella Academy* are available today on Netflix.

The second Harry Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is available on digital download today.

Also based on a comic book Doom Patrol is set to launch on the DC Universe streaming service Friday.

TV

What We Do in the Shadows TV spot

The Twilight Zone (2019) Super Bowl TV spot

Movies

Pet Sematary (2019) trailer

Avengers: Endgame Super Bowl TV spot

The Reading & Watch List

• Interview: Tom DuBois, Blades of Steel box cover artist
• The Warriors at 40: the enduring appeal of a New York classic

Cool Movie Posters of the Week

What To Watch This Week

Tuesday

The WWII Nazi zombie movie Overlord of last fall is available for digital download today.

One of the biggest flops of 2018, Robin Hood, is available on digital download Tuesday.

Friday

The Lego Movie, a surprise hit of 2014, gets a sequel with The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part in theaters today.

The Reading & Watch List

• How an Olympic Hopeful Robbed 26 Banks on His Bike
• The Untold History of Budweiser’s ‘Whassup?’ Super Bowl Commercial
• In France, Comic Books Are Serious Business
• ‘Quatermass’ Movie Reboot in the Works at Legendary, Hammer Films
• How Blumhouse Can Rehab Universal’s Monsters
• The All-American Nightmares of Jordan Peele
• Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Landing
• Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ Ordered to Series at CBS All Access

Cool Movie Poster of the Week

What To Watch This Week

Monday

The new crime mini-series starring Chris Pine I Am the Night premieres tonight on TNT.

TCM is set to air a whole slew of sci-fi movies today including The Time Machine, Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010, Brainstorm and Westworld.

Tuesday

After airing sci-fi all day TCM will run the horror Poltergeist early Tuesday morning.

The 1988 fantasy classic Willow is getting a well-deserved HD release on digital download today.

Saturday

TCM will show the sci-fi body-horror (?) classic Fantastic Voyage tonight.

Movies

Shazam trailer

TV

The Boys preview

The Reading & Watch List

• Tony Mendez, 78, Dies; C.I.A. Officer Celebrated in the Film ‘Argo’
• What Made the TV Show ‘You’ a Hit? Netflix
• Nuclear Anxiety, Empty Streets and Scenes of New York on High Alert

Cool Movie Poster of the Week