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Tribeca 2026: The Year of Going to the Cinema

June 24, 2026June 24, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Al Pacino, Alicia Vikander, American independent film, Billie Lourd, cinema culture, documentary films, documentary review, Elizabeth Cutler, emerging filmmakers, Festival Coverage, festival favorites, Fidel Castro, film criticism, film festivals, Flywheel, Harvey Guillén, independent film, indie cinema, Japanese cinema, Josh Brener, Julie Rice, Killing Castro, Memorizu, mental health, Miiku Sakanishi, motherhood, movie reviews, New York City, Peloton, political thrillers, postpartum depression, relationships, Romantic Drama, Ruth Zuckerman, Seven OClock Breakfast Club from the Brokenhearted, SoulCycle, Spin Wars, streaming movies, That Friend, The Last Day, Tribeca 2026, Tribeca Festival, Tribeca reviews, Victoria Pedretti, world cinema

Subjects ranging from rural Japan to New York spin studios to Cold War Cuba showcased the festival’s eclectic range

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E. Jean Carroll Tells Her Story

June 23, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments #metoo, 2026 films, advice columnists, American culture, Ask E. Jean, cable television, contemporary politics, court cases, documentary films, documentary review, Donald Trump, E. Jean Carroll, Elle magazine, feminism, film criticism, gonzo journalism, Ivy Meeropol, media criticism, nonfiction film, political documentaries, Roger Ailes, sexual assault, sexual harassment, television history, Trump era, women and media, women's rights

‘Ask E. Jean’ prompts questions it doesn’t answer

He Managed The Beatles and They Couldn’t Manage Without Him

June 22, 2026 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1960s music, Allen Klein, Antisemitism, Apple Corps, Beatlemania, Beatles books, Beatles manager, book criticism, Brian Epstein, British Invasion, celebrity biographies, Da Capo Books, Derek Taylor, George Harrison, George Harrison biography, George Martin, homophobia in Britain, Jane Asher, Jewish history, John Lennon, John Lennon biography, LGBTQ history, Liverpool, London music scene, Mr Moonlight, music biographies, music industry, music journalism, Neil Aspinall, Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney biography, Peter Brown, Philip Norman, Philip Norman interview, pop music history, Reggie Kray, rock and roll history, rock history, Shout The Beatles in Their Generation, Swinging London, The Beatles, The Beatles legacy

Q&A with Philip Norman, biographer of Beatles manager Brian Epstein

Let ‘Swell’ Expand Your Reality

June 21, 2026June 21, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments A Table for Six, Asian literature, Blanket, Blimp, book criticism, Book Review, contemporary authors, contemporary literature, experimental fiction, family relationships, fiction collections, genre bending fiction, Give Them the Lindy Hop, grief and loss, independent publishing, international fiction, Janet Hong, Janet Hong translation, Korean literature, literary culture, literary fiction, literary translation, magical realism, marriage and infidelity, modern short stories, multiverse stories, Son Bo mi, South Korean fiction, speculative fiction, Swell, The Love of a Scientist, translated literature, Two Lines Press, Two Lines Press books, UFO fiction, unreliable narrators, world literature

A new collection of Son Bo-Mi’s stories arrives in English

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Was Peter Asher Pop Music’s Zelig or Svengali? ‘Everywhere Man’ Offers Answers

June 20, 2026June 19, 2026 Jim Allen 0 Comments 000 Maniacs, 10, 1960s music, 1970s music, Apple Records, Billy Joel, Bonnie Raitt, British Invasion, Carnaby Street, Carole King, Cher, classic rock, Dan Geller, Danny Kortchmar, Dayna Goldfine, Diana Ross, documentary review, Elton John, Eric Idle, Everywhere Man, folk rock, George Martin, Gordon Waller, Immediate Family, James Taylor, Jane Asher, Lee Sklar, Linda Ronstadt, los angeles music scene, Lyle Lovett, music criticism, music documentaries, music history, music managers, Natalie Merchant, Paul McCartney, Peter and Gordon, Peter Asher, pop music, Randy Newman, record producers, Robin Williams, rock and roll history, rock documentaries, Russ Kunkel, singer songwriters, Steve Martin, Swinging London, The Beatles, The Section, Twiggy, Waddy Wachtel

The documentary follows Asher from Swingin’ London to laid-back L.A… and beyond.

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‘Gang War: Bandidos’ Paints a Portrait of Danish Bikers at War

June 19, 2026June 18, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments

What happens when a country wants to outlaw a group of brothers?

‘The Yahoo Boys’ and the Clumsy Art of the Romance Scam

June 19, 2026June 19, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments AI and fraud, artificial intelligence, book criticism, Book Review, Carlos Barragán, catfishing, crime writing, cybercrime, digital culture, economic inequality, Farrar Straus and Giroux, financial fraud, gift card scams, globalization, internet scams, investigative journalism, John Oliver, loneliness epidemic, Mary Worth, Nigeria, Nigerian society, nonfiction books, online dating, online fraud, pig butchering scams, romance scams, scam culture, social psychology, The Yahoo Boys, Yahoo Boys

A new book on the teen scammers of Nigeria gets to the humans, but not the politics

BFG Podcast #309: ‘Disclosure Day,’ ‘Backrooms,’ and Nicolas Cage With the Power of Spider

June 17, 2026June 18, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Amazon Prime Video, Backrooms, BFG Podcast, Book and Film Globe, Book and Film Globe podcast, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, Daniel Aaron, Disclosure Day, Emily Blunt, film criticism, Hollywood, independent horror, Josh O'Connor, liminal spaces, Matthew Sheffer, movie podcast, Neal Pollack, Nicolas Cage, pop culture podcast, Prime Video, Renate Reinsve, science fiction films, Scott Gold, Spider Noir, Spider-Man, Stephen Garrett, Steven Spielberg

Neal Pollack, Daniel Aaron, Stephen Garrett are united by new, freshly bought and owned theme music!

‘Toy Story 5’ Tackles Technology

June 17, 2026June 17, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments 2026 movies, Andrew Stanton, animated films, animation, artificial intelligence, Bo Peep, Buzz Lightyear, children and technology, Conan OBrien, Craig Robinson, cyberbullying, digital childhood, Disney, Disney animation, Greta Lee, Jessie, Joan Cusack, movie review, Pixar, Pixar movies, screen time, social media, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, Toy Story 5, toys, Woody

But Woody and co punt on bigger questions of device devotion

Amitav Ghosh Writes a Covid Novel Like No one Else

June 16, 2026June 4, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Amitav Ghosh, Bengali culture, book criticism, Book Review, Calcutta, climate fiction, contemporary fiction, COVID-19 novels, family sagas, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Ghost-Eye, Gun Island, historical fiction, immigration and identity, Indian literature, international literature, Kolkata, literary fiction, literary novels, magical realism, Manasa Devi, Marwari community, novel reviews, pandemic fiction, Past Lives, reincarnation, South Asian literature, spirituality and religion, world literature

Follow-up to ‘Gun Island,’ ‘Ghost-Eye’ takes us from Brooklyn to Calcutta and back in time

The Choices Are Vast at Tribeca 2026

June 14, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments American independent film, Before Sunrise, Blair Beeken, campus life, Cinque Terre, Columbia University, documentary films, Doron Max Hagay, emerging filmmakers, Ephemera, Festival Coverage, festival favorites, film criticism, film festivals, Good Grief, Here Im Alive, independent film, indie cinema, Joshua Z Weinstein, Kingston, movie recommendations, music documentaries, New York City, New York culture, New York stories, overtourism, Patti Harrison, queer cinema, Robert De Niro, Sara Bareilles, Shan Jiang, Shanghai, Shay Rudolph, She Keeps Me Young, social media, The Siege of Paradise, Tribeca 2026, Tribeca Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca reviews, world cinema

Some recommendations as New York’s film festival celebrates its silver jubilee

Steven Spielberg’s Even Closer Encounters Get Disclosed

June 12, 2026June 12, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments 2026 movies, alien contact, alien documentaries, Alien Invasion, alien technology, blockbuster cinema, CGI creatures, cinema reviews, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Colin Firth, Colin Firth films, Colman Domingo, conspiracy thrillers, corporate conspiracies, David Koepp, Disclosure Day, Emily Blunt, Emily Blunt movies, ESP, extraterrestrials, film criticism, first contact stories, government conspiracies, Hollywood blockbusters, Josh O'Connor, Kansas City, movie review, North Korea, paranormal fiction, pop culture criticism, Prime movie reviews, Richard Nixon, Roswell, Roswell conspiracy, science fiction cinema, science fiction films, science fiction thrillers, Steven Spielberg, Steven Spielberg films, summer movies, telepathy, UFO culture, ufology, UFOs, World War III anxieties

Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, and Colin Firth run around and meet some aliens

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Was Gregg Allman One of the Most Misunderstood Rockers of the 70s?

June 12, 2026June 4, 2026 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1970s rock, American music, At Fillmore East, blues rock, Cher, classic rock, classic rock documentaries, documentary reviews, Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, Gregg Allman, Gregg Allman The Music of My Soul, Hammond organ, Jackie Wilson, Jackson Browne, James Keach, Jimmy Carter, Melissa Etheridge, Midnight Rider, music criticism, music documentaries, music films, Otis Redding, rock documentaries, rock history, rock legends, southern rock, The Allman Brothers Band, Watkins Glen Festival, Whipping Post

‘The Music of My Soul’ documentary shares new views of a rock legend

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Questlove’s Earth, Wind & Fire Doc Shows the Glory and the Grit

June 9, 2026June 9, 2026 Jim Allen 0 Comments Afrofuturism, Ahmir Questlove Thompson, American music, band biographies, Barack Obama, Black music history, California Jam, Chess Records, Chicago music, classic rock and soul, concert films, disco music, documentary films, documentary review, Doug Henning, Earth Wind and Fire, flea, funk music, George Faison, I Wish, Lionel Richie, Maurice White, Michelle Obama, music criticism, music documentaries, music history, musical legends, Napoleon Hill, Parkinsons disease, Philip Bailey, Questlove, R&B music, Ramsey Lewis, Reasons, Shining Star, soul music, Stevie Wonder, Summer of Soul, The Wiz, Verdine White

Turns out the celestial soul supermen were mortals after all

FILM Streaming YouTube

We’re All Players in the ‘Amazing Digital Circus’

June 8, 2026June 9, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments AI in fiction, animated films, animated series, animation fandom, animation industry, artificial intelligence, Batman: The Animated Series, Caine, cartoon reviews, Clayface, cult fandom, digital culture, existentialism, Family Guy, Fathom Events, Gen Z culture, Glitch Studios, Gooseworx, Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, independent animation, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mr. Freeze, online culture, Paw Patrol, Pomni, pop culture criticism, Severance, streaming culture, The Amazing Digital Circus, The Amazing Digital Circus The Final Act, The Truman Show, young adult media, YouTube animation, YouTube creators

Glitch and Gooseworx may be following ‘Obsession’ and ‘Backrooms’ from YouTube to box office success

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