Book and Film Globe

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

16 New Books To Read in November

November 1, 2026November 1, 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, 2026October 31, 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

‘Funny Business,’ Sad comedy scene

October 26, 2026 Jake Harris 0 Comments 2000s comedy movies, 2010s comedy movies, Adam McKay, Anchorman, Animal House, Ben Stiller, Bobby Farrelly, Book Review, comedy box office, comedy history, Farrelly brothers, film criticism, Frat Pack, Funny Business, Funny Business book, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Hollywood comedy, hollywood history, improvisational comedy, Judd Apatow, Knocked Up, Matt Singer, National Lampoon, Netflix, nonfiction book review, Opposable Thumbs, Owen Wilson, Paul Feig, Peter Farrelly, R-rated comedies, raunchy comedy, Saturday Night Live, Scary Movie, ScreenCrush, Seth Rogen, Siskel and Ebert, Steve Carell, streaming entertainment, studio comedies, Talladega Nights, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Ben Stiller Show, The Hangover, The Invite, The Studio, theatrical comedy, There's Something About Mary, This Is the End, Todd Phillips, Vince Vaughn, Wedding Crashers, Will Ferrell

Matt Singer’s new book will make you reconsider 2000s R-rated comedies

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Paweł Pawlikowski Drives Us Through a Decimated ‘Fatherland’

October 24, 2026October 28, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments arthouse cinema, August Diehl, Bayreuth Festival, black and white cinematography, Cold War, cultural memory, denazification, East Germany, Erika Mann, European cinema, exile, family relationships, father-daughter relationships, Fatherland, film criticism, Frankfurt, German cinema, German history, German literature, grief, Hanns Zischler, Historical drama, international cinema, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Klaus Mann, mourning, movie reviews, National identity, nationalism, Nazi Germany, Paweł Pawlikowski, political drama, postwar Germany, Richard Wagner, Sandra Hüller, Thomas Mann, W.H. Auden, Weimar, West Germany, World War II

Postwar Germany views itself through the monochromatic portrait of the Mann family

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‘Lorne’: The Man Who Made Everyone Famous but Himself

October 22, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 30 Rock, Adam Sandler, Alec Baldwin, American comedy, Book and Film Globe, Broadway Video, celebrity documentaries, Colin Jost, comedy documentary, comedy legends, Conan OBrien, documentary review, Eddie Murphy, entertainment industry, Fred Armisen, Jimmy Fallon, John Belushi, Late Night, late-night television, Lorne, Lorne Michaels, Lorne Michaels succession, Michael Che, Morgan Neville, NBC, Netflix, Paul Simon, Saturday Night Live, show business, sketch comedy, SNL, SNL 50th anniversary, SNL documentary, Steve Martin, streaming documentaries, television history, The Blues Brothers, The New Show, The Tonight Show, Tina Fey, Wayne's World, Will Ferrell

Morgan Neville’s new documentary explores the mastermind behind Saturday Night Live, who built a comedy empire while keeping his own life stubbornly offstage.

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But ‘Who is Martin Mull?’

October 21, 2026October 26, 2026 Samuel Porteous 0 Comments 1970s comedy, absurdist comedy, addiction, alcoholism, America 2-Night, American comedy, artistic identity, Best in Show, Billy Joel, Bob Saget, Bruce Springsteen, celebrity documentaries, Christopher Guest, comedy documentary, comedy history, contemporary art, documentary film, documentary review, Eric Idle, fame, Fernwood 2 Night, Fred Willard, Johnny Carson, Martin Mull, Monty Python, mortality, music history, musical comedy, Neil Berkeley, Netflix, Norman Lear, painting, Rhode Island School of Design, RISD, satire, Seth MacFarlane, Steve Martin, television history, The Fabulous Furniture, The History of White People in America, The Larry Sanders Show, The Tonight Show, Tom Waits, Waiting for Guffman, Wendy Haas, Who Is Martin Mull?

A star-studded meditation on mortality is also very funny

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Perpendicular Lives Intersect in ‘Possible Love’

October 20, 2026October 26, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments arthouse cinema, capitalism, Cho Yeo-jeong, cinematic storytelling, class inequality, documentary ethics, documentary filmmaking, economic exploitation, factory workers, Family Drama, film review, grief, international cinema, Jeon Do-yeon, Korean cinema, Korean drama, Lee Chang-dong, love stories, marriage, movie reviews, Netflix, Possible Love, privilege, Psychological Drama, relationships, social realism, South Korean films, Sul Kyung-gu, unemployment, voyeurism, wealth inequality, working class, Zo In-sung

Lee Chang-dong brings two unlikely couples together in this NYFF success that is heading straight to theater screens and Netflix

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‘The Knights of Guinevere’ Takes Us Into the Backrooms of Not-Quite-Disney

October 19, 2026October 22, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments adult animation, Andi, androids, animated series, animation review, artificial intelligence, body horror, Caine, corporate dystopia, corporate satire, Dana Terrace, digital culture, Disney, Disney Channel, Disney satire, dystopian fiction, existential horror, fan theories, fandom culture, Frankie, Glitch Productions, Glitch Studios, Guinevere, independent animation, indie animation, Knights of Guinevere, online fandoms, Park Planet, psychological horror, queer representation, robotics, science fiction, Stolen Kingdom, streaming animation, surveillance state, The Amazing Digital Circus, The Owl House, theme parks, YouTube animation

Glitch Studios brings a new nightmare drip for the kids

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