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Cinematic holy grails are still possible, even in our stream-everything culture. And one of the biggest is about to land at New York City's Film Forum for| Book and Film Globe
AI will transform films and tv — animation is showing the way The post No More Hollywood appeared first on Book and Film Globe.| Book and Film Globe
Don’t ruin the freshness of ‘Weapons’ The post Leave Aunt Gladys Alone appeared first on Book and Film Globe.| Book and Film Globe
Cinematic holy grails are still possible, even in our stream-everything culture. And one of the biggest is about to land at New York City's Film Forum for| Book and Film Globe
This was a terrific movie year for sticking it to the patriarchy. A majority of the films here are about young women forging their own paths in a world| Book and Film Globe
Genteel thriller The Phoenician Scheme is Wes Anderson’s most single-minded, plot-driven, self-mocking movie in years—a propulsive hoot that inevitably| Book and Film Globe
Wonka is a defanged reimagining of Dahl’s celebrated chocolatier, giving him an origin story so thoroughly toothless you’d think sugar-induced cavities might have been the culprit.| Book and Film Globe
The Book and Film Globe podcast made its debut this week on Clubhouse. Every Friday at 1 pm EST, BFG editor in chief Neal Pollack will discuss the week's| Book and Film Globe
This is the final episode of the BFG Podcast. We're as sad to see it go as you are, but editor and host Neal Pollack has a new job at the U.S. edition of| Book and Film Globe
Since it would basically be entertaining to watch Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman read the Facebook Community Guidelines, it’s hardly surprising| Book and Film Globe
The talent behind Spenser Confidential is the kind that might trend if we weren’t in a pandemic where tone deaf celebs sing “Imagine” into their Phones.| Book and Film Globe
No film in the last 50 years better captured the Jamaican music scene in the Bob Marley era than the 1978 feature Rockers.| Book and Film Globe
I saw the Green Book movie. The title refers to the "green book" that Hollywood screenwriters consult when writing interracial buddy pictures. The ten| Book and Film Globe
With the bevy of streaming services at your disposal these days, it’s hard to keep track of what’s available and what’s not. Let this article be your| Book and Film Globe
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Who’da thunk that a coupla nice Jewish boys living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side would become arguably the best living directors of the Western? Then| Book and Film Globe
So. Many. Dead. Mexicans. The extreme kills in Rambo: Last Blood are old-school ’80s violent, over-the-top throwback-Thursdays homicidal, regressively| Book and Film Globe
Epic, rhapsodic, tragic, Cold War is an elegiac dream. Paweł Pawlikowsi’s fugue of star-crossed lovers makes the audience ache for happy endings.| Book and Film Globe
In his new novel, Agent Running In the Field, John Le Carré is in tune with a world where a resurgent Russia challenges the United States once again.| Book and Film Globe
Does Bruce Willis shave his head? Yes? Then his movie sucks. If he doesn't, the movie is good. We investigated and this is true.| Book and Film Globe
A bracing briny slap of barnacled lunacy, The Lighthouse chronicles two lonely men and their steep descent into ocean-soaked self-destruction. The setting| Book and Film Globe
Witches be bitches. “They’ll hollow me out and eat my cunt on a plate,” a terrified Chloë Grace Moretz frets. So begins arthouse darling Luca Guadagnino’s| Book and Film Globe
With Long Bright River, Good Morning America's book-club selection, Liz Moore cements her formidable literary mystery talents.| Book and Film Globe
The box office figures are in, and it's official: Ne Zha 2 is a flop. Not worldwide, of course — it's already the biggest ever animated film in history| Book and Film Globe
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Summer’s almost over, but the streaming selection never stops. This September, viewing selections include bringing back Wednesday and putting Jude Law in| Book and Film Globe
No one will confuse Max’s reality show, MILF Manor, with prestige television. Anyway, when I took a flyer and dove into MILF, I was probably inspired by 30 Rock’s fake reality show, MILF Island.| Book and Film Globe
“Elevated horror,” a tired term that somehow has more lives than Michael Myers, is back in the discourse lately after the recent Shudder release of| Book and Film Globe
Archive 81 joins a rich vein of recent-ish horror efforts that have amped up their fear factor with lo-fi video technology.| Book and Film Globe
From Arundhati Roy, to Maurice Sendak, Ian McEwan, Lionel Richie and more The post 18 Books You Should Know Are Arriving in September appeared first on Book and Film Globe.| Book and Film Globe
After nine movies and 20+ video games, FX spawns ‘Alien: Earth’ The post On Earth, Everyone Can Hear You Scream appeared first on Book and Film Globe.| Book and Film Globe
‘Aema’ tells the fictionalized story of the blockbusting ‘Madame Aema’ The post The Racy Film That Rocked South Korea appeared first on Book and Film Globe.| Book and Film Globe
Alex Russell’s debut ‘Lurker’ explores toxic symbiosis in an LA entourage The post A Fascinating Study of Showbiz Obsession appeared first on Book and Film Globe.| Book and Film Globe
Anti — Say it! — pation! The way you beat the other girls — With a whip! A toast! — Cue the mass tossing of bread slices. For better or worse, The Rocky| Book and Film Globe
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The world has gotten a lot weirder since there was a new episode of Adult Swim's Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Actually, that would be an| Book and Film Globe
In this, another fly-on-the-wall peek at General Motors (after Michael Shnayerson's The Car That Could), the former West Coast editor for Popular Science| Book and Film Globe
Do you read racially diverse romance? Whether the answer is an unqualified “YES!” or a quietly questioning “…no?”, it might interest you to know that The| Book and Film Globe
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BERLIN–In a week when Harvey Weinstein became a convicted sex offender, the Berlin Film Festival dished up such a biergarten of toxic masculinity it gave| Book and Film Globe
In this utterly captivating story of wine, wealth, and a family destroyed by accusations of incest, Moira Johnston (Roller Coasters, 1990) cuts through an| Book and Film Globe
Laura Lippman is a keen observer of human nature, and her best-selling standalones have evolved to explore deeper issues along with the mysteries at hand.| Book and Film Globe
Given the elevated level of public burnout with the MCU, it's hard to remember that when Season One of 'Loki' debuted in June 2021, Marvel was still| Book and Film Globe
In this second edition of the Book and Film Globe Week in Review podcast, recorded live on the Clubhouse app, BFG editor-in-chief Neal Pollack talks to| Book and Film Globe
It had been written, so it came to pass. If only it were that simple. Traci Chee has created a New York Times-bestselling world with her young-adult| Book and Film Globe
An earthquake survivor was once asked how she felt after the quake stopped. She answered, “It’s still happening.” Many earthquake survivors feel the| Book and Film Globe
The original 1982 Creepshow, a horror anthology film created by George Romero and Stephen King, was an homage to the EC Comics of the ‘40s and ‘50s, most| Book and Film Globe
An overserious, drab, and not particulary scary adapation of the Stephen King novel that should never have been resurrected.| Book and Film Globe
A solid film's worth of unsettling moods and eye-popping jump scares lurks in Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House, a new series loosely inspired by the| Book and Film Globe
Lawrence Wright looms large in the prestige TV adaptation of his book "God Saved Texas, “inspired by” his book, which arrives on HBO with three auteur-directed episodes.| Book and Film Globe
King of the Hill is returning on August 4 to Hulu. At a panel in Austin this weekend, eager fans got a sneak preview.| Book and Film Globe
In this era of endless IP recycling, even King of the Hill — the most low-key of adult animation classics — is getting the reboot treatment. On paper,| Book and Film Globe
White people, what are y’all doing? You’re sitting at home streaming the 2011 film The Help as a way to feel like you’re participating in this moment in| Book and Film Globe
The apocalypse is back in Knock at the Cabin, the current #1 movie in America. This isn't a zombie apocalypse, or a weather apocalypse, or a nuclear| Book and Film Globe
Now that movie theaters have opened around the country, film critics are slowly venturing out of their Hobbit-holes and discovering what those of us in| Book and Film Globe
When I was invited to a big screen viewing of Apocalypse in the Tropics before its Netflix debut on July 14, I had not heard of it. From the title, I| Book and Film Globe
Did we really need yet another Batman property, you ask? And did it have to be a prequel to a prequel? 'Gotham' producers Danny Cannon and Bruno Heller| Book and Film Globe
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. Just as the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) hit its stride, Pennywise the Clown goosed the| Book and Film Globe
I recall enjoying the first Maleficent movie well enough. I remember Angelina Jolie’s wings being ripped off as a metaphor for rape. It was a feminist| Book and Film Globe
Nobody’s evil anymore—just misunderstood. The flashy-brashy origin story 'Cruella' turns Dodie Smith’s canine-hating postwar villainess into a scrappy| Book and Film Globe
Marvel and Disney bring the greatest saga in cinematic history to an emotionally-satisfying, action-packed conclusion that will thrill the global audience.| Book and Film Globe
Stores may be shelving these books under Contemporary Romance, but their proper genre is Competence Porn: Romance between adults who are good at their jobs.| Book and Film Globe
Mildred Ratched, head of the men's ward that imprisons McMurphy, protagonist of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, is the most iconic evil nurse in film| Book and Film Globe
The Trump administration is escalating its scorched-earth efforts to mold American culture, with a proposed federal budget that eliminates the National| Book and Film Globe
“We ride this thing ’till the wheels fall off,” boasts a strutting Will Smith. Is that a promise or a threat? Bad Boys for Life is the third installment| Book and Film Globe
Everyone knows that journalism is dying, and Megan Greenwell's new book Bad Company helps explain why. In 2019, Megan Greenwell was at the front line of| Book and Film Globe
A Criterion Collection retrospective of his work means that Western audiences can watch the full breadth of the work from Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke.| Book and Film Globe
'Death of A Unicorn,' a star-packed comedy/fantasy/horror hybrid feature from A24 that premiered at South By Southwest on Saturday evening, leans heavily| Book and Film Globe
COVID-19 is still preventing audiences in many cities from seeing stand-up comedy, especially Los Angeles and New York where comedy clubs, and even| Book and Film Globe
Nobody does being elegantly wasted like the English. Recently re-released by Criterion, Withnail and I is one of those movies that, like the titular pair| Book and Film Globe
As a cinematographer, director, and producer, Barry Sonnenfeld has straddled the artistic/commercial divide, filling his resume with critically-acclaimed| Book and Film Globe
There is a moment, in the chaos of the climactic battle of Avatar: The Way of Water, when Zoe Saldana's alien heroine Neytiri is furiously mowing down one| Book and Film Globe
Making Comics, a new book by the comic-maker Lynda Barry, teaches people how to make comics. Our comic-maker tried it out.| Book and Film Globe
Sticky fingers lead to sticky situations in Shoplifters, especially when it runs in the family. Gentle scofflaw Osamu (Lily Franky) guides his son Shota| Book and Film Globe
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Yet another Violence Movie where Liam Neeson mows down ethnic stereotypes, Cold Pursuit feels a bad reboot of Yojimbo starring Homer Simpson’s Mr. Plow.| Book and Film Globe
When writing A Bright Ray of Darkness, it’s possible Ethan Hawke clung a tad too desperately to that worn advice to write what you know. Like Ethan Hawke,| Book and Film Globe
in this iteration of the news prank show, comedian Jena Friedman exclusively targets unsuspecting, arrogant white men. It is awesome.| Book and Film Globe
EB White died in 1985, and to the last he had geese, dogs, and plenty of other animals on his farm in Maine. He was married for nearly 50 years to| Book and Film Globe
Slut-shaming looms over the 2021 Berlin Film Festival. What better year than this online-only quarantine edition to include a movie about a PornHub video| Book and Film Globe
As a book person, I’ve been reading as many Black authors as possible, whether they write specifically about racial injustice or not.| Book and Film Globe
As much a cultural history of L.A. in the 1980s as a true-crime account, freelance journalist Sullivan's study of the so-called Billionaire Boys Club and| Book and Film Globe
'Conviction' is a crime novelist’s paean to that modern paraliterary phenomenon, the true crime podcast. “A good podcast can add a glorious multi-world| Book and Film Globe
From the title to the plot, there’s very little original about Kaliane Bradley’s new novel The Ministry of Time. But originality is not what this charming| Book and Film Globe
“There are other worlds than these.” That quote, from Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, is the jumping-off point for Hulu’s anthology series Castle Rock.| Book and Film Globe
Stephen King’s most recent book is a slim little number called Elevation. It clocks in at a featherweight count of 160 pages, and is what we fiction| Book and Film Globe
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Cruella is just the latest in the current glut of prequels and origin stories. Do we really need to know every character's backstory?| Book and Film Globe
Barry Diller had the classic Hollywood storybook rise: he started in the mailroom of the William Morris Agency. By 1974 Diller was the president and CEO| Book and Film Globe
Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda puts a spin on the intimate French family film with The Truth, in which Catherine Deneuve plays a legendary film actress.| Book and Film Globe
Tesla is a bit of a mess, but at least it's not another plodding biopic. That honor, in electrical-inventor history, belongs to The Current War, which| Book and Film Globe
Society of the Snow is one of the most "makes sense" director-material pairings in recent memory. J.A. Bayona of horror (The Orphanage) and inspirational| Book and Film Globe
Nine Perfect Strangers has suffered from one of the more awkward media rollouts in recent memory. The problem is less the marketing for the show itself as| Book and Film Globe
I'm in the process of reading all of the Booker Prize long list nominees. It's taking a while, there's a lot of sports on TV.| Book and Film Globe
Donald Cabana, a prison official for 25 years, recounts his experiences and his change of heart about the death penalty. In this folksy narrative, Cabana| Book and Film Globe
Don't worry, Stephen King fans. The Outsider, at least in its first two episodes, is one of the better adaptations of his work in the last few years.| Book and Film Globe
I saw the A Private War Movie. Rosamund Pike plays Marie Colvin, a war correspondent who, quite literally, died for our sins. The action takes us to Sri| Book and Film Globe
The latest recipient of Twitter’s ire is satirist David Sedaris, whose appearance on CBS Sunday Morning yesterday left a bad taste in viewers’ mouths.| Book and Film Globe
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I generally read for one of two purposes, for entertainment or information. Other subsidiary reasons arise–relaxation, aesthetic pleasure, to enjoy a| Book and Film Globe
I have a feeling that centuries from now, people will still be reading Stephen King and watching adaptations of his work.| Book and Film Globe
