Plus: 3 Books That Became the Best Movies of the Year
| | January 24, 2025 |  | |
|  | Following Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes movies starring Robert Downey Jr., the acclaimed Sherlock series that introduced us to Andrew Scott before he was Hot Priest, Lucy Lui's take on the detective series with Elementary and Netflix's YA spinoff Enola Holmes, audiences are getting another series adaptation—with CBS putting Dr. Watson front and center. Who knew Sherlock was so adaptable? Plus, the 2025 Oscar Best Picture nominees are here! | | Quick links: | |
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| | Books You’ll Be Glad You Read Before Oscar Night |
| | This year's Oscar nominees draw heavily from beloved literary works, making the age-old question: “Was the book or movie better?” even harder to answer. Dive into the stories that inspired Hollywood’s biggest night with ThriftBooks, where you read more and spend less! |  | | The Nickel Boys | | by Colson Whitehead | | When Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), a Black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. The adaptation of this widely beloved Pulitzer Prize novel is now playing in select theaters. |  |
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|  | | Conclave | | by Robert Harris | | Who knew selecting a new pope could be so thrilling? From sex scandals, corruption, and terrorism, you’ll be on the edge of your seat until the final twist. Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, and Isabella Rossellini bring the pages to life on film, now streaming on Peacock. | | |
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|  | | Wicked | | by Gregory Maguire | | One of the biggest movies of the year is based on Maguire’s hit series. But, we must warn you, the pages are far darker than the glittering tale performed by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, which you can now watch wherever you rent. | | |
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| |  | | | Flight Risk | | Buckle up for this airborne thriller about a hitman (Mark Wahlberg), an informant (Topher Grace) and an FBI agent (Michelle Dockery) all aboard the same flight. Now in theaters. | | More details |
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| | | Star Trek: Section 31 | | Michelle Yeoh returns to the final frontier as her fan-favorite role from Star Trek: Discovery for a standalone movie about a secret division of Starfleet. Now streaming on Paramount+. | | More details |
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| | | Brave the Dark | | Mad Men and Chernobyl's Jared Harris stars in this real-life small town drama about a high school teacher who helps one of his students, whom he discovers is living out of his car. Now in theaters. | | More details |
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| | | Watson | | Morris Chestnut takes over the famed role of Dr. Watson in the latest re-telling of the classic detective series, with the added twist being that it's also a medical drama. Premieres Jan. 26 on CBS. | | More details |
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| | |  | | Clean Slate | | One of producer Norman Lear’s final projects will be released next month. In Clean Slate, Laverne Cox and George Wallace play a daughter and father working to repair their relationship after not speaking for more than two decades. All eight episodes will release on Prime Video on Feb. 5. | | View trailer |
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