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‘The Man Will Burn’ Wonders Whether Burning Man Has Lost Its Roots

August 20, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments art festival, Baker Beach, Black Rock City, Burning Man, Burning Man Project, counterculture, documentary, festival culture, HBO, HBO Max, Jehane Noujaim, Kimbal Musk, Marian Goodell, Nevada, San Francisco, Television Review, The Man Will Burn, Tribeca Festival, Vikram Gandhi

The iconic desert festival grows up, can it survive a decade of mainstream wealth?

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Is ‘Badly in Love’ Terrible Television or Brilliant Satire?

August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Awich, Badly in Love, Badly in Love Season 2, dating reality show, dating show, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese television, Love, MEGUMI, Nagano, Netflix, Okinawa, reality television, Reality TV, Romance, Television Review, yakuza, yankii

The Japanese reality dating show throws punks together to teach them romantic love

In ‘The Boundless Deep’ We See a Poet’s Struggle With Belief

August 19, 2026 Art Edwards 0 Comments agnosticism, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Arthur Hallam, astronomy, biography, Book Review, Darwin, evolution, faith, geology, In Memoriam, Pantheon, Poetry, religion, Richard Holmes, science, Tennyson, The Boundless Deep, Victorian literature

A young Alfred Lord Tennyson spent decades trying to resolve science and God

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In a Vigilante Tale, ‘Furious’ Has No Perfect Victims

August 17, 2026August 19, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments Crime Drama, Elizabeth Meriwether, Emmy Rossum, FBI, Furious, Hulu, Jake Lacy, Lola Petticrew, Medusa, mythology, Promising Young Woman, psychological horror, psychological thriller, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Scott McNairy, Serial Killer, sex trafficking, sex work, Steve Way, Streaming Television, TV review, vigilante

Hulu describes this Epstein-adjacent mythic psychological horror as a crime drama

‘End of Oak Street’ Is a Stroll in Triassic Park

August 15, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments 1980s, Aliens, Anne Hathaway, David Robert Mitchell, dinosaur movie, Ewan McGregor, horror, It Follows, Maisy Stella, Michigan, monster movie, Nashville, Poltergeist, Ray Harryhausen, Romancing the Stone, science fiction, Sigourney Weaver, The End of Oak Street, time travel

One amazing performance makes David Robert Mitchell’s 1980s B-movie worth watching

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Netflix’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Is a Cinematic Miracle

August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 2 Comments Ángela Cano, book adaptation, Carla Baratta, Claudio Cataño, Colombia, Dynamo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julián Román, Latin American cinema, Laura Mora, Laura Taylor, Licinia Alzate, Macondo, magical realism, Marleyda Soto, Netflix, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Streaming, Television Review

Magical Macondo comes to life even as Colombia suffers tragedy

It’s Not Far From the Thousand Year Reich to ‘The Infinite State,’ But Gabriel Is New

August 11, 2026August 11, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments 1984, authoritarianism, Book Review, democracy, dystopian fiction, empire, fascism, galactic empire, George Orwell, Infinite State, military science fiction, political fiction, Richard Swan, Robert Heinlein, science fiction, space opera, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, The Decurion Saga, totalitarianism, world building

Richard Swan’s new novel follows a new democracy setting up in the shadow of an oppressive interstellar empire

‘Tony’ Shows Us One Pivotal Summer in the Charismatic, Tragic Life of Anthony Bourdain

August 10, 2026August 10, 2026 Laura Pruden 0 Comments A24, Anthony Bourdain, Antonio Banderas, biopic, chef, cinema, coming of age, cooking, Dominic Sessa, Emilia Jones, food, Kitchen Confidential, Leo Woodall, Matt Johnson, movie review, Provincetown, restaurants, Tony, Tony Bourdain

Chasing after a girl, a young man finds a mentor and a vocation

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Smoking Hot Prudes Rock for ‘One Night Only’

August 9, 2026August 12, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Ben Marshall, Callum Turner, Comedy, dystopian fiction, Julia Fox, King Princess, LeVar Burton, Logan's Run, Maya Hawke, Molly Ringwald, Monica Barbaro, movie review, One Night Only, rom-com, romantic comedy, satire, science fiction, sex comedy, The Purge, Will Gluck

Authoritarian science fiction never looked so sexy

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BFG Podcast #312: Is Spider-Man Any Good? Plus, Summer Dragon Fights for All!

August 7, 2026August 12, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments film criticism, House of Dragon, movie podcast, Neal Pollack, Omar Gallaga, Podcast, Pop Culture, Sea of Reeds Media, Stephen Garrett

Neal, Stephen and Omar call in from all points on the map to debate comic book movies and fantasy series

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How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Burned Down ‘The Welcome Table’

August 6, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments activism, climate change, climate crisis, climate migration, climate refugees, Copernicus, documentary, environment, Europe, France, Gasland, global warming, Greece, HBO, HBO Max, Indigenous communities, Josh Fox, Max, movie review, New Orleans, Nonfiction, Spain, sustainability, The Welcome Table, wildfires

Following climate refugees is one way of showing how climate change is having disastrous effects

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‘Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender’ Succeeds in Spite of Its Troubled Release

August 5, 2026August 12, 2026 J. Barnes 0 Comments Aang, animated film, animation, anime, Avatar Aang, Avatar Aang The Last Airbender, Avatar Seven Havens, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Cabbage Merchant, Chong, Fantasy, Flying Bark Productions, movie review, Paramount, Streaming, Studio Mir, Suki, Tagah, Taika Waititi, Team Avatar, Toph, Uncle Iroh, Zuko

After 20 years of animation, the franchise showcases its skills in a feature film

August Books for the End of Summer

August 4, 2026August 3, 2026 Art McPhail 0 Comments Ashley Kahn, August 2026 books, book recommendations, books, books to read, Bookshop.org, Casey Michel, Chang-rae Lee, Claire Stapleton, Fantasy, fiction, Graceland, Jill LePore, Kim Bo-Young, Laura Moriarty, Liane Moriarty, Lisa Gardner, literary fiction, new books, Nonfiction, Olivie Blake, Paul Simon, Richard Swan, Roland Orzabal, science fiction, T Kingfisher, Tears for Fears, Thao Thai, Thrillers

A stuffed drawer of top reads from Chang-rae Lee to Paul Simon, from Google to Tears for Fears

The Real Scandal Is the Whitewashing of ‘The Odyssey’

August 3, 2026 J. Barnes 0 Comments ancient Greece, Anne Hathaway, Ben-Hur, Brad Pitt, Brett Ratner, casting, Christopher Nolan, Elon Musk, Exodus Gods and Kings, film criticism, Greek history, Greek mythology, Hercules, Hollywood, Homer, Hugh Jackman, Jason and the Argonauts, Lupita Nyong’o, Matt Damon, Mel Gibson, movie review, Nicholas Galitzine, Renny Harlin, representation, Ridley Scott, The Legend of Hercules, The Odyssey, The Passion of the Christ, The Ten Commandments, Theo James, Tom Holland, Troy, whitewashing, Zendaya, Zoe Kazan

Where are the Greek actors for a Greek epic?

Sentenced to ’72 Hours’ With Kevin Hart

August 2, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 72 Hours, bachelor party, Comedy, Dumb and Dumber, Gen Z, Jackass, Kevin Hart, Marcello Hernández, Mason Gooding, Miami, Millennials, movie review, Netflix, Netflix original, Old School, Porky's, Rotten Tomatoes, Saturday Night Live, Step Brothers, streaming movies, Teyana Taylor, The Hangover, Tim Story, Tina Fey, workplace comedy

‘The Hangover’ without the manic escalation meets ‘Old School’ without the affection

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