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‘Dead To Me’: Too Many Secrets

November 29, 2022 Matthew Ehrlich 1 Comment Christina Applegate, Dead To Me, Freaks and Geeks, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini, Married With Children

The endless twists and cliffhangers are really dumb, but Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini still have chemistry in the final season of the Netflix show

Music NON-FICTION

Downbeat

November 29, 2022 Matt Hanson 0 Comments Dangerous Rhythms, English, Frank Sinatra, jazz, Louis Armstrong, T.J

‘Dangerous Rhythms’, a new book about jazz and the underworld, spends too much time with familiar names

‘She Said’ Lets Women Speak

November 28, 2022November 29, 2022 Sara Stewart 1 Comment

Updating the template of the investigative journalism movie

MUSIC

Disney-Driven Music

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 Stephen Macaulay 1 Comment Bob Chapek, Bob Iger, Disney, Elton John, Get Back, Hamilton, Peter Jackson

Despite management shuffles at the top, music has kept Disney+ close to the yellow brick road

‘Sold A Story’ Reignites Reading Wars

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Christopher Paul Curtis, Christopher Peak, Emily Hanford, Gay Su Pinnell, Heinemann, Irene Fountas, Lucy Calkins, Madeline Edison, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sold A Story

Podcast fuels new debate about best way to teach kids to read

Business Featured Stories NON-FICTION

Our Indie Bookstore, Like All Indie Bookstores, Is a Force for Good

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Old Florida Book Shop, Rock and Roll Globe, Sea of Reeds, The Book House, Virginia Woolf

On Cyber Monday, remember that if you want quirky bespoke stores to exist, you need to support them

Houellebecq Will Never Win The Nobel Prize

November 22, 2022November 28, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Abdulrazak Gurnah, Annie Ernaux, Annihilate, Guy de Maupassant, Michel Houellebecq, Submission

The wrong messenger, and the wrong message

COMICS NON-FICTION

‘Ink, Blood and Linseed Oil’

November 22, 2022November 18, 2022 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Drew Friedman, Ink Blood and Linseed Oil, Juxtapoz, Last Gasp Press, Robert A. Williams

What is art? Robert Williams’s collected essays from the culture-busting ‘Juxtapoz’ magazine still challenge our preconceptions

FILM Netflix

‘Falling for Christmas’ is About Both Falling and Christmas

November 21, 2022November 28, 2022 Kristin Clifford 0 Comments Chord Overstreet, Falling for Christmas, George Young, Lindsay Lohan, Vanessa Hudgens

Lindsay Lohan re-enters the chat

Book and Film Globe Podcasts Podcasts

BFG Podcast #081

November 21, 2022November 20, 2022 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Blockbuster, Chris Lites, Paula Shaffer, Stephen Garrett, Steven Levitan, The Menu, The Peripheral, William Gibson

Holiday Special with ‘The Menu,’ ‘The Peripheral,’ ‘Reboot’ and ‘Blockbuster’

FILM

The Long Shadow of Alfred Hitchcock

November 21, 2022November 19, 2022 Tony Lee Moral 0 Comments Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Ingrid Bergman, Martin Scorsese, Matt Reeves, Notorious, Oldboy, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Park Chan-Wook, Quentin Tarantino, Rear Window, Rope, Spike Lee, The Batman, The Birds, The Wolf of Wall Street, Vertigo

A hundred years after his directorial debut, here are some of Hitchcock’s greatest cinematic innovations–and examples from modern filmmakers who deploy them.