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There’s Nothing ‘Normal’ About Bob Odenkirk

September 21, 2026September 14, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments action comedy, action film, Ben Wheatley, Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk, Bob Odenkirk movies, Brendan Fletcher, crime thriller, Derek Kolstad, Henry Winkler, independent film, Jess McLeod, John Wick, John Wick creator, Lena Headey, movie review, Nobody, Normal, Peter Shinkoda, yakuza

‘Nobody’ and ‘John Wick’ creator Derek Kolstad throws up a Minnesotan action comedy

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BFG Podcast #315: Venice, Oasis and Hope

September 20, 2026September 17, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Aaron Pierre, animation, comic books, Coyote Vs. Acme, DC Comics, DC Studios, Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, HBO, HBO Max, hong jin na, Hope, James Gunn, John Stewart, Kyle Chandler, Lanterns, live action, Looney Tunes, Neal Pollack, Nick Tangborn, Oasis, Podcast, Pop Culture, Rob Kutner, Sam Porteous, Sea of Reeds Media, superheroes, The Big Bang Theory, TV podcast, TV review, venice, Warner Bros., Wile E. Coyote

Neal and Stephen chat about Danny Boyle, Martin McDonagh, John Malkovich and more

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Throw a Champagne Supernova on the Wonderwall

September 19, 2026September 15, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Britpop, Cardiff, concert documentary, Don't Look Back in Anger, Dylan Southern, film review, Liam Gallagher, Live '25 Tour, Manchester, Music Documentary, Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Oasis reunion, Oasis reunion tour, rock documentary, rock music, Steven Knight, Will Lovelace, Wonderwall

The Gallagher Brothers ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’

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In His Latest Netflix Special ‘Uncle Stav’ Has a New Title of Respect

September 18, 2026September 18, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments Anthony Bourdain, Baltimore, Bill Burr, Bugonia, comedy special, Donald Trump, Emma Stone, George Carlin, healthcare, Jesse Plemons, Joe Rogan, Luigi Mangione, Matt Johnson, Netflix, Netflix comedy, political comedy, Shane Gillis, Stand Up Comedy, Stavros Halkias, Stavvy's World, The Lyric Baltimore, Tires, Tony, Uncle Stav

What advice do you think you’ll get from a self-avowed, ‘dirtbag role model’?

‘Exit Party’ Provides Parties but Surprisingly Little Exit

September 18, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments alternate reality, Canadian fiction, dystopian fiction, Emily St. John Mandel, Exit Party, literary fiction, Lucas Alkaitis, multiverse, parallel worlds, post-apocalyptic fiction, Sea of Tranquility, speculative fiction, Station Eleven, The Swan Dive

Emily St. John Mandel is back with a novel of parallel worlds

Korea’s Most Expensive Movie Ever Opens a Pandora’s Box

September 17, 2026September 17, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments action thriller, Alicia Vikander, Alien Invasion, Avatar, CGI, creature feature, Hope, Hoyeon, Hwang Jung-min, Korean film, Michael Fassbender, monster movie, Na Hong-jin, Predator, Quentin Tarantino, sci-fi horror, science fiction, South Korean cinema, Troma Entertainment

Prepare to be thrilled and bewildered by ‘Hope,’ Na Hong-jin’s latest SF action thriller

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Does Living Longest Make You ‘The Oldest Person in the World’?

September 16, 2026September 15, 2026 Brooke Berman 0 Comments aging, aging gracefully, Brooklyn, documentary, documentary film, Emma Morano, Guinness World Records, health, Italy, Jamaica, Kane Tanaka, legacy, life and death, longevity, memoir, mortality, Sam Green, Sister André, supercentenarians, Susannah Mushatt Jones, The Oldest Person in the World, Time, Violet Brown

Sam Green’s moving decade-long doc goes beyond supercentenarians to become something far richer than a study of longevity

Venice Crowns ‘Woman Unknown’

September 16, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments 1900, A Good Little Soldier, Alba Rohrwacher, Alex Gibney, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bernardo Bertolucci, Boatbuilders, Bunker, Burgundy, Cho Yeo-jeong, cinema, documentary, Elon Musk, Film festival, Florian Zeller, Gaza, Golden Lion, Gregory Kershaw, Israel, Jasmine Trinca, Javier Bardem, Jeon Do-yeon, John Malkovich, Joie de Vivre, Julia Loktev, Last Tango In Paris, Lee Chang-dong, Luca Guadagnino, Luke Lorentzen, Martin McDonagh, Mathilde Arcel, May El-Toukhy, Michael Dweck, Musk documentary, My Undesirable Friends, NAZA, Paul Dano, Penelope Cruz, Possible Love, Primetime, Rachel Szor, Robert Pattinson, Stéphane Brizé, Stephen Graham, Sul Kyung-gu, The Conformist, The Guardian, The Last Emperor, The Spiral, Venice 2026, Venice Film Festival, Wild Horse Nine, Woman Unknown, Yuval Abraham, Zo In-sung

May El-Toukhy takes the Golden Lion as class, power and inequality dominate the festival

The Strange Vibe — and Unexpected Pleasures — of TIFF 2026

September 15, 2026September 15, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments animated film, Bitter Christmas, Canadian cinema, Carol Nguyen, Cody Lightning, Colombian cinema, documentary, Girleza Duave Cerezo, hockey movie, In Waves, Indigenous cinema, Juan Andrés Arango Garcia, L'AUTRE, Pedro Almodóvar, Phuong-Mai Nguyen, Quebec cinema, Smudge the Blades, Stephanie Hsu, Still Night Burning House, surfing, TIFF 2026, Toronto International Film Festival, Where the River Begins, Will Sharpe

The Toronto Film Festival continues with Pedro Almodóvar, rainforest odysseys and Indigenous hockey stories

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‘Personal Responsibility Inc.’ Reimagines Mental Health and Its Care

September 15, 2026September 15, 2026 Austin Tannenbaum 1 Comment Book Review, collective healing, Community, cultural criticism, individualism, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Julie Tilsen, licensed therapist, loneliness, Margaret Thatcher, mental health, mental health care, mental illness, neoliberalism, Nonfiction, OR Books, personal responsibility, Personal Responsibility Inc., psychology, psychotherapy, public health, social connection, social psychology, therapy, Wall-E, wellbeing

Julie Tilsen views our wellbeing as a social rather than individual project

Grapes, Violins, and Growing Up: A First Look at This Year’s Toronto Film Festival

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments animation, Anthony Chen, Canadian cinema, David Beaudoin, documentary, Emanuele Gerosa, Ervin Han, Félix Munger, Filipino cinema, Film festival, John Torres, John Trengove, Low Lies the Land, Raúl García, Rémi St-Michael, Singapore cinema, South African cinema, The Remotes, The Smell of Apples, The Violinist, TIFF 2026, TIFF review, Toronto International Film Festival, Toy Gun Bandit, We Are All Strangers, world cinema

TIFF 2026 leads with the unexpected

DOCUMENTARY FILM

‘Brailled It’ Shows the Unusual Possibilities of Blind Filmmaking

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments accessibility, blind students, blindness, Braille, Braille Challenge, Brailled It, Brendan Schulze, Christopher Morgan, coming of age, David Grabias, disability, documentary, documentary film, education, film review, independent film, Isaiah Gauthier, Salome Cummins, teen documentary

New doc captures the awkwardness of being a blind teenager at the 2024 Braille Challenge

Transport Yourself ‘In Every Possible Way’ with a Summer Romance

September 13, 2026September 11, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments Alicia Thompson, Before Sunrise, Berkley Books, Book Review, contemporary romance, Dreams, Dublin, fiction, In Every Possible Way, Ireland, Irish countryside, Love in the Time of Serial Killers, love story, rom-com, romance books, romance novel, romantic comedy, summer reading, The Cranberries

All is fair – including head trauma and magical realism – in love.

Venice 2026: The Rich, the Powerful, and the Cost of Looking Away

September 12, 2026September 10, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Alex Gibney, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bunker, Cho Yeo-jeong, cinema, documentary, Elon Musk, Film festival, Florian Zeller, Gaza, Israel, Javier Bardem, Jeon Do-yeon, Julia Loktev, Lee Chang-dong, Musk documentary, My Undesirable Friends, NAZA, Paul Dano, Penelope Cruz, Possible Love, Rachel Szor, Stephen Graham, Sul Kyung-gu, The Guardian, Venice 2026, Venice Film Festival, Yuval Abraham, Zo In-sung

Standout films on Musk, Gaza, and class conflict turn power and moral failure into gripping cinema

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Raygun: the Kangaroo That Got Judged

September 11, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Australia, breakdancing, breaking, Chapman Way, dance, documentary, hip hop culture, Internet culture, interview, Maclain Way, memes, Netflix, Olympic breaking, Olympics, Paris Olympics, Rachael Gunn, Raygun, Rocky, Sammy Free, Untold, Untold: Raygun: Breaking Badly, viral media

‘Untold: Raygun: Breaking Badly’ gets behind the scenes of Australia’s most hated Olympian

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