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Save Us, Godzilla!

November 8, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments 1940s Japan, action movies, alien monsters, alternate history, atomic bomb, B-movies, blockbuster sequels, camp cinema, Cold War, creature features, disaster movies, film reviews, G-cells, giant monsters, Ginza, Godzilla, Godzilla franchise, Godzilla Legacy of Monsters, Godzilla Minus One, Godzilla Minus Zero, Godzilla Minus Zero review, Godzilla movies, Godzilla sequels, Hiroshima, Japanese cinema, Japanese history, Japanese monster movies, Japanese science fiction, kaiju, kaiju movies, King Ghidorah vs Godzilla, King Ghidorah., Kōichi Shikishima, Matsumoto City, Mechagodzilla, meteorites, Min Tanaka, Minami Hamabe, monster battles, monster movies, MonsterVerse, Mothra, movie criticism, New York City, Noriko Ōishi, nuclear anxiety, nuclear trauma, nuclear warfare, postwar Japan, radiation, redemption, Rodan, Ryunosuke Kamiki, sci-fi action, science fiction, science fiction movies, special effects, Statue of Liberty, survival, Takashi Yamazaki, Toho Studios, Tokyo, visual effects, war trauma, World War II

Takachi Yamazaki’s ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ sets the stage for a renewed franchise

‘Coyote Vs. ACME’ Vs. ‘Digger’

November 8, 2026 J. Barnes 0 Comments A Midsummer Night's Dream, ACME Corporation, Alejandro González Iñárritu, animal testing, animated comedy, Aristophanes, Buddy Crane, capitalism, cartoon comedy, Charles Koch, climate change, climate change denial, comedy film criticism, comedy movies, contemporary cinema, corporate accountability, corporate corruption, corporate ethics, corporate greed, corporate lobbying, corporate satire, Coyote Vs. Acme, Coyote Vs. ACME review, Daffy Duck, dark comedy, Digger, Digger movie review, environmental activism, environmental destruction, environmental politics, environmental satire, film criticism, film morality, Foghorn Leghorn, fossil fuels, government regulation, Hollywood blockbusters, Lee Raymond, live-action animation, Looney Tunes, Marx Brothers, Michael Wirth, movie comparisons, movie reviews, oil industry, Peter Lorre, political corruption, political filmmaking, political satire, Road Runner, satire in cinema, scientific ethics, Shakespeare, slapstick comedy, The Clouds, The Merchant of Venice, The Wasps, Tom Cruise, unethical experimentation, Warner Bros., whistleblowers, Wile E. Coyote

What makes a film about corporate greed and its repercussions succeed, or fail?

‘Wild Horse Nine’ Is Full of Hysterical but Horrible Remorse

November 6, 2026November 6, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments 1970s period films, 1973 Chilean coup, absurdist humor, American foreign policy, Augusto Pinochet, Bay of Pigs, betrayal, black comedy, character driven drama, Chile, CIA, CIA history, Cold War, Cold War espionage, Congo, covert operations, Cuba, dark comedy, Easter Island, espionage films, existential comedy, film criticism, Friendship, gallows humor, government corruption, Guatemala, guilt and regret, historical fiction, In Bruges, Indonesia, intelligence agencies, John F. Kennedy assassination, John Malkovich, loyalty, Martin McDonagh, Martin McDonagh films, melancholic comedy, mercy killing, misanthropy, Moai statues, moral ambiguity, moral responsibility, mortality, movie reviews, Parker Posey, Patrice Lumumba, political assassinations, political satire, political thriller, Rapa Nui, redemption, Salvador Allende, Sam Rockwell, Santiago, spy movies, Steve Buscemi, terminal illness, The Banshees of Inisherin, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Tom Waits, US interventionism, Wild Horse Nine, Wild Horse Nine review

John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell take Martin McDonagh’s jaded Cold War warriors and turn them into Big Heads on Easter Island

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What Was Alfred Hitchcock’s Secret?

November 6, 2026November 8, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments Academy Awards, acting and performance, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock biography, Alfred Hitchcock movies, auteur cinema, auteur theory, book reviews, Cary Grant, casting directors, cinema history, cinematic suspense, classic cinema, classic Hollywood, Family Plot, Film Adaptations, film analysis, film books, film casting, film criticism, film history, film studies, filmmaking techniques, Francois Truffaut, Golden Age of Hollywood, Hitchcock and Truffaut, Hitchcock casting, Hitchcock films, Hitchcock Truffaut interviews, Hollywood casting, hollywood history, Hollywood stardom, James Stewart, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Fontaine, movie stars, Nat Segaloff, nonfiction books, North By Northwest, psychological thrillers, Rope, screen charisma, star power, suspense films, Suspicion, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Secret Hitchcock, The Short Night, thriller movies, university press of kentucky, Vertigo, World War II

New book argues that the famed director’s casting is given short shrift

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What ‘Dead-End Job’ Knows About Korea

November 5, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Bank of Korea, BTS, capitalism, chaebols, class struggle, Dead-End Job, Dead-End Job Netflix, declining birth rate, dystopian fiction, economic inequality, economic satire, elderly poverty, employment agencies, fertility crisis, Fifty Times the Minimum Wage, financial desperation, generational poverty, giant rats, gig economy, honjok, horror comedy, Hyeok-jun, Hyundai, job insecurity, K-drama, K-pop, killer clowns, Korean drama, Korean economy, Korean horror, Korean horror comedy, Korean labor market, Korean pop culture, Korean society, Korean television, Korean Wave, labor exploitation, LG, loan sharks, minimum wage, monster movies, Netflix, Netflix reviews, Netflix series, OECD, Parasite, personal debt, precarious employment, psychological horror, social isolation, social satire, South Korea, South Korean youth, Spider staffing agency, Squid Game, Streaming Television, suicide crisis, supernatural horror, survival horror, television reviews, underemployment, workplace horror, workplace safety, youth unemployment

The agency that finds people jobs of horror is portrayed as the most honest part of life in the country

BOOKS Graphic novels

‘Hotel & Farm’ Is Half Hotel, Half Farm, All Nonsense

November 3, 2026November 3, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments absurdist fiction, absurdist humor, agriculture, alternative comics, Ben Katchor, book reviews, bureaucracy, comic books, comic strips, comics, consumer culture, contemporary comics, cultural satire, deadpan humor, encyclopedic fiction, experimental comics, experimental storytelling, farming, food culture, fragmented narratives, fruit criticism, Gilbert Silo, graphic novel criticism, graphic novel reviews, graphic novels, Hotel & Farm, hotel culture, illustrated fiction, Jug Oar, literary comics, literary experimentation, new graphic novels, newspaper comics, non sequiturs, nonsensical humor, Pantheon Books, rural life, Seemor Hotel, sequential art, social satire, surreal humor, surrealist comics, unconventional narratives, urban life, visual satire, visual storytelling, worldbuilding, Yalos Finger

New graphic novel from Ben Katchor provides a powerful test of patience

BFG Podcast #317: You Can Hear Everything

November 2, 2026November 2, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Amanda Seyfried, Behemoth!, BFG Podcast, Book and Film Globe podcast, contemporary cinema, culture podcast, documentary ethics, documentary film, Elizabeth Holmes, entertainment podcast, film criticism, film festivals, film podcast, fraud, independent film, international cinema, Kenji Fujishima, Mike Leigh, movie reviews, Nathan Fielder, Neal Pollack, New York cinema, New York Film Festival, NYFF, Silicon Valley, Stephen Garrett, Theranos, Tony Gilroy, true crime documentary, You Can See Everything

Neal, Kenji, and Stephen chat about New York Film Festival, Nathan Fielder, Amanda Seyfried, Mike Leigh, and more

‘Wicker’ Provides a Rom-Com Interlaced With Substance

November 1, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments absurdist comedy, Alex Huston Fischer, Alexander Skarsgard, body autonomy, Brothers Grimm, class and society, dark comedy, Eleanor Wilson, Elizabeth Debicki, erotic comedy, fairy tale adaptations, fairy tales, fantasy comedy, fantasy film, female sexuality, feminist cinema, feminist comedy, feminist fable, film adaptation, film criticism, folk fantasy, folk horror, folklore, gallows humor, gender roles, gossip, independent cinema, jealousy, love and devotion, magical craftsmanship, magical realism, marriage, medieval fantasy, movie reviews, Olivia Colman, ostracism, outsiders, patriarchal society, patriarchy, Peter Dinklage, Richard E. Grant, romantic comedy, romantic fantasy, satire, sexual desire, sexual repression, small-town prejudice, social conformity, social satire, The Wicker Husband, unconventional romance, Ursula Wills, Wicker, Wicker film review, wicker man, Wicker movie

Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård tentpole this offbeat drama from Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson

BOOKS Featured Stories

16 New Books To Read in November

November 1, 2026November 4, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments A Glacier's Guide to Dying, Alex Pappademas, architecture, best new books, book recommendations, book roundup, books to read, Broadway history, Broadway in Black and White, contemporary fiction, crime fiction, Daisy Johnson, Department of Fate, Eve Sneider, Friends of the Devil, Gary Shteyngart, Grateful Dead, Guilty Pleasure, How to Be Less Useful, Ian Rankin, Janet Malcolm, Joan LeMay, John Mauceri, John McWhorter, John Scalzi, Journalism, LeVar Burton, literary biography, literary fiction, Long Wave, Louise Kennedy, Matt O'Hara, memoirs, Michelle Porter, Monsters of Ohio, music history, mystery thrillers, new books November 2026, nonfiction books, November 2026 books, November book releases, Patricia Nilsson, Paul Goldberger, personal essays, political nonfiction, Priyanka Mattoo, Rachel Maddow, science fiction, science history, Stations, Take My Word for It, The Absent Woman, The Flying Death, The Heights, The Imperfect City, The Sensualist, Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts, urban planning

From Gary Shteyngart’s pursuit of pleasure to Rachel Maddow’s reckoning with American justice, November brings literary ambition, political urgency and some gloriously strange fiction.

"Man smiling in a studio setting with a city skyline background, wearing a red polo shirt and dark jacket; VPN and #NormLive logos visible in corner, warm lighting."

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Norm Was a Vibe

October 31, 2026November 4, 2026 Rob Kutner 1 Comment absurdist comedy, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, American comedy, Amy Schumer, Andy Kaufman, Anthony Jeselnik, anti-humor, Bob Saget, cancer, celebrity roasts, comedian biography, comedian documentaries, comedy and tragedy, Comedy Central Roast, comedy controversy, comedy documentary, comedy history, comedy writing, Conan OBrien, creative originality, deadpan comedy, Dirty Work, documentary film, documentary review, Don Ohlmeyer, entertainment industry, Garry Shandling, George Carlin, Joan Rivers, Judd Apatow, late-night comedy, late-night television, Lenny Bruce, Lorne Michaels, Matt Wolf, Mel Brooks, mortality, Netflix, Norm Macdonald, Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald, O.J. Simpson, Pee-wee as Himself, Richard Pryor, Rob Reiner, Sarah Silverman, Saturday Night Live, shaggy dog stories, SNL, Stand Up Comedy, subversive humor, television history, The Moth Joke, Weekend Update

Judd Apatow takes a different tack in ‘Norm: The Tale Of Norm Macdonald’

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Netflix and the Lost Churros

October 30, 2026October 29, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Academy Awards, Animals, audience engagement, Bela Bajaria, Below, Ben Affleck, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Bridgerton, content strategy, corporate entertainment, creative quality, crime thrillers, Dark, Elon Musk, Emmys, entertainment industry, film criticism, giant squid, Gillian Anderson, Golden Globes, Hollywood, Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience, Josh Hartnett, Kerry Washington, La Casa De Papel, Luis Elizondo, Lupin, maritime horror, Mindhunter, monster movies, movie reviews, Netflix, Netflix advertising, Netflix and the Lost Churros, Netflix layoffs, Netflix leadership, Netflix miniseries, Netflix movies, Netflix originals, Netflix stock, Nielsen ratings, original programming, Peter Rice, Robert De Niro, science fiction horror, Squid Game, Stranger Things, streaming competition, streaming economics, streaming industry, streaming reviews, streaming services, streaming wars, Television Criticism, television viewership, The OA, The Whisper Man, UFOs, Wednesday, YouTube

What ‘Animals’ and ‘Below’ tell us about the streaming giant

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Everything That’s Streaming in November 2026

October 29, 2026October 29, 2026 Jake Harris 0 Comments 12 12 12, Amazon Prime Video, Amy Poehler, Anthony Mackie, Apple TV, Being Heumann, Black Doves, Blade Runner 2099, Blue Lights, BritBox, Chris Pratt, Criterion Channel, Death Valley, Dig, Everything That's Streaming in November 2026, Gentle Monster, Guarding Stars, HBO Max, Heartland, holiday movies, Hunter Schafer, Ice Cream Man, Jamie Dornan, Jared Padalecki, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Chastain, Léa Seydoux, Leighton Meester, Michael Schur, Michelle Yeoh, Netflix, New Group, new movies November 2026, new on Apple TV, new on BritBox, new on Criterion Channel, new on HBO Max, new on Netflix, new on Paramount Plus, new on Peacock, new on Prime Video, new on Shudder, new TV shows November 2026, November 2026 streaming, Paramount, Peacock, Prestige Television, Rose Byrne, Shudder, Steps, Stick, Streaming Guide, streaming movies, Streaming Television, Thanksgiving viewing, The Body, The Buffalo Miracle, The Chosen, The Gilded Age, The Good Daughter, The Greatest, The Holy Boy, The Hunting Wives, The JLO Show, The Mosquito Bowl, The Rings of Power, Tinsman Road, Way of the Warrior Kid, Yellowjackets

Celebrate Thanksgiving month with Muhammad Ali, Nicolas Cage, Amy Poehler, and ‘Yellowjackets’

Nine Spooky Books To Celebrate Halloween

October 28, 2026October 28, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments A Taste for Murder, Appalachian horror, Atria Books, Berkley Books, best Halloween books, Blood Is Dripping onto the Courtyard, body horror, book recommendations, book roundups, Brian Evenson, Christina MacSweeney, Coffee House Press, cozy mysteries, Crooked Lane Books, Death Writ Large, Del Rey, Elvira Navarro, fantasy romance, gothic fiction, Guilty by Definition, Halloween 2026, Halloween books, Halloween reading list, horror books, horror fiction, Katherine Daniel, Last Days, literary horror, Martha Waters, Matt Baker, Mexican Gothic, murder mysteries, Natasha Lennard, new book releases, On Un/Certainty, paranormal romance, Phantom Limb, political nonfiction, psychological horror, Sarah Langan, Sarah Rose Etter, short story collections, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Sourcebooks Landmark, Spellstruck, spooky reads, spooky season, Stephen King, Susie Dent, The Intrigue, The Regency Vows, Trad Wife, translated fiction, Two Lines Press, Verso Books, When the Night Comes Knocking

Monsters, magic, and scary politicians for your frightfest weekend

Ali G Back in Da House

October 28, 2026October 27, 2026 Gordon Haber 0 Comments Ali G, Ali G: Who Iz I?, Amazon Prime Video, American immigration politics, American politics, Antisemitism, BBC, Borat, british comedy, British television, Bruno, cancel culture, comedy controversy, comedy ethics, comedy film, cringe comedy, cruelty in comedy, cultural appropriation, Da Ali G Show, Dr. Nira Cain-N'Degeocello, Erran Morad, George Santos, gross-out comedy, HBO, hidden camera comedy, identity politics, immigration, Milgram experiment, Morgana Robinson, movie review, Newt Gingrich, political correctness, political polarization, political satire, prank comedy, Rachel Dolezal, racism, Sacha Baron Cohen, satire, shock humor, social justice warriors, social satire, Staines, Tony Benn, woke culture

Sacha Baron Cohen brings some harsh, funny pranks in ‘Ali G: Who Iz I?’

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A Concrete Example of a Documentary Masterpiece

October 27, 2026October 26, 2026 J. Barnes 0 Comments absurdist comedy, affordable housing, architecture, BQE, Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Buddhist philosophy, City of Yes, comedy documentary, concrete, constructive trauma, documentary film, documentary review, Dorothy Chin Brandt, entropy, Eric Adams, existentialism, experimental documentary, film criticism, grief, Hallmark movies, HBO, How To With John Wilson, impermanence, Jack Macco, John Wilson, Kathy Hochul, mortality, movie reviews, New York City, New York City politics, observational filmmaking, Pantheon, philosophical comedy, Ridgewood Queens, Roman architecture, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, sand mandalas, The History of Concrete, urban decay, urban infrastructure, zoning reform

John Wilson’s ‘History of Concrete’ is so much more than its boring title suggests

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