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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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You Can See Everything, Except the Truth

October 18, 2026October 22, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Abbott and Costello, AI, artificial intelligence, authenticity, Billy Evans, corporate fraud, deepfakes, documentary ethics, documentary film, documentary review, Edison blood-testing device, Elizabeth Holmes, Enron, Errol Morris, experimental documentary, film criticism, Frederick Wiseman, investigative documentary, Lance Oppenheim, media manipulation, mockumentary, movie reviews, Nathan Fielder, Nathan For You, reality and illusion, Silicon Valley, tech startups, The Rehearsal, Theranos, Theranos scandal, true crime documentary, truth and deception, Werner Herzog, white collar crime, Who's on First, You Can See Everything

Feel free to mix Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim, Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans but that’s no recipe for non-fiction

Nine Books on Immigration

October 18, 2026October 15, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments Afghan women poets, Afghanistan, Afshin Matin-Asgari, Andreas Kossert, Axis of Empire, book recommendations, books about immigration, Death of the Soccer God, Dimitry Elias Léger, Hair on Fire, Haiti, Hamdullah Mohib, historical fiction, How to Close a Camp, immigrant detention, immigrant experiences, immigrant memoirs, immigration history, Immigration literature, immigration policy, Iran, John Washington, Katya Suvorova, memoir, new books 2026, Nghiem Tran, Nonfiction, Our Hours Are Married to Shadow, Poetry, queer literature, Rafael Osío Cabrices, refugee stories, Shadows over Kabul, Tam Hussein, The Uprooted, Twilight in Venezuela, Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter, Venezuela, Vietnamese American poetry, World Cup 2026

From the politics of imprisonment to the wonders and tragedies of being forced to leave home

Two Highlights From the New York Film Festival Main Slate

October 16, 2026October 15, 2026 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments 8 1 2, Adam Driver, Aftersun, Alice Bailey Johnson, All of a Sudden, Andor, art and empathy, arthouse cinema, Birgit Minichmayr, British cinema, Cannes Film Festival, capitalism, Carlos Reygadas, Charlotte Wells, dementia, Drive My Car, elder care, Emeric Pressburger, Everytime, experimental cinema, Federico Fellini, female friendship, Film at Lincoln Center, film criticism, film scores, French cinema, Gone to Earth, Gregory Oke, grief, Hard Truths, Heil Jupiter!, James Gray, Japanese cinema, JoBeth Williams, Kate OFlynn, Marion Bailey, Michael Clayton, Michael Powell, Mike Leigh, Miles Teller, mortality, movie reviews, New York Film Festival, New York Film Festival 2026, nursing homes, NYFF 2026, Paul Jesson, Pedro Pascal, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, social realism, social workers, surrealism, Tao Okamoto, Tender Loving Care, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Virginie Efira, Widow's Bay

The probable last film from a British legend and the latest work from a Japanese master brightened this year’s edition of this festival of festivals.

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‘Buy the Dip’ Mixes Politics and Parenting in a Dark Comic Special

October 15, 2026October 15, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments Bill Hicks, Buy the Dip, comedy review, comedy specials, current events, dark comedy, fatherhood, FBI, Indian American comedians, Jeremy Allen White, Kash Patel, Kill Tony, Netflix, Netflix comedy, Nimesh Patel, observational comedy, parenting, political comedy, satire, Stand Up Comedy, stand-up special, Streaming, Tony Hinchcliffe

SNL Writer Nimesh Patel Buys Low and Aims High in His First Solo Netflix

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Two Disappointments in the New York Film Festival Main Slate

October 15, 2026October 19, 2026 Kenji Fujishima 1 Comment 8 1 2, Adam Driver, Aftersun, Andor, arthouse cinema, Behemoth!, Birgit Minichmayr, Cannes Film Festival, Carlos Reygadas, Charlotte Wells, classical music, Emeric Pressburger, Eva Victor, Everytime, experimental cinema, Federico Fellini, Film at Lincoln Center, film criticism, film scores, Gone to Earth, Gregory Oke, grief, Heil Jupiter!, James Gray, JoBeth Williams, Michael Clayton, Michael Powell, Miles Teller, movie reviews, New York Film Festival, New York Film Festival 2026, NYFF 2026, Olivia Wilde, Paper Tiger, Pedro Pascal, Sandra Wollner, Scarlett Johansson, surrealism, TIFF, Tony Gilroy, Toronto International Film Festival, Will Arnett

Pre-festival hype and even stars like Pedro Pascal and Olivia Wilde don’t always satisfy

Unexpected Gems From the New York Film Festival

October 14, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments arthouse cinema, Arundhati Roy, China, Currents, documentary, Éric Baudelaire, experimental cinema, Film at Lincoln Center, Film festival, For the Moon, Goodbye South Goodbye, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, Kinmen, Luise Donschen, movie reviews, National Institute for Blind Youth, New York Film Festival, NYFF, Overt Listening, Pradip Krishen, restored films, Revivals, Taiwan, Tiffany Sia, Tomorrow a Long Time Ago, world cinema

From avant-garde documentaries to restored classics, the festival’s deepest cuts were among its finest.

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