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Clockwork Running Wild

Issue #84: Monday 12 January, 2026

Some top-notch books read and a bunch of good movies and TV shows watched.

I discuss:

Books:

• Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

• The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

• The Creeper by Margaret Hickey

• The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins

• The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins

Movies:

• A House of Dynamite, directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Netflix)

• Frankenstein, directed by Guillermo del Toro

• The Great Flood, directed by Kim Byung-woo

• Flight Plan, directed by Robert Schwentke

• Yesterday, directed by Danny Boyle

• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, directed by Kenneth Branagh

• Brick, directed by Phillip Koch

TV Shows:

• Pluribus (Apple TV)

• Down Cemetery Road (Apple TV)

• Anthology: The Beatles (Disney+)

-- David

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