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Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear

One For Your Watchlist: Cape Fear

August 7, 2025

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Ben English

Nothing will ruin your summer quite like a recently released psychopath deciding to pay your family a visit.

One For Your Watchlist: Noises Off!

July 14, 2025

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Ben English

Everything going wrong for the cast is perfectly right for the viewer.

One For Your Watchlist: Bunny Lake Is Missing

June 5, 2025

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Ben English

Otto Preminger's dark mystery still holds up.

One For Your Watchlist: Exhuma

May 12, 2025

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Ben English

If you need an unusual burial site exhumed, who ya gonna call?

One For Your Watchlist: The Fog

April 18, 2025

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Ben English

Salty ghosts crash a small town centennial celebration with predictable results.

One For Your Watchlist: Lonely Are the Brave

March 31, 2025

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Ben English

Kirk Douglas has difficulty getting with the times, man.

flat shot of different magazine articles

Neil Gaiman, Palisades Fire and Bafta Awards...

February 6, 2025

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Jamal Park

Stay current with the world around you with a handful of articles in popular magazines you can access with just your library card.

One For Your Watchlist: Key Largo

January 30, 2025

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Ben English

Mobsters and tropical storms definitely don't mix.

One for Your Watchlist: After Hours

November 10, 2024

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Ben English

A surreal dark comedy from 1985 shows what can happen when a world-class filmmaker is forced to change gears. 

One For Your Watchlist: The Psychic

October 3, 2024

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Ben English

Something eerie from Italy for your Halloween film schedule.

Halloween in August

August 18, 2023

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Paige Wilson

Ready for Halloween? Check out Paige's latest spooky read! Yes, we know that Halloween is two months away but who says we can't start celebrating now?

Bewitchment, Beauty, and Betrayal

December 6, 2020

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Katie Varnell

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned...especially when the woman scorned is a witch.  Maria Owen navigates joy, pain, and the trials and tribulations that come with love in Alice Hoffman's Magic Lessons.  

Jeremy Estes has worked for Nashville Public Library since 2008. He loves comic books and dislikes the term “graphic novels”. He hosts Panel Discussion, a comics book club for adults, on the first Wednesday of the month at 12pm at the Main Library.

Paul Smethers, a former high school English teacher, is an Associate with the Adult Services Team at Main. His special interests are poetry, ghost stories, and the French Bourbon dynasty.

Bryan is a librarian at Nashville Public Library. Bryan enjoys board games, bikes, and free software. His only star is Trek.

Crystal Deane is a librarian in the Popular Materials Department. She likes mysteries, cookbooks, and cats. She dislikes spoilers, and won't include any in her reviews.