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Hitman, Baby One More Time

June 18, 2021 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Antonio Banderas, Frank Grillo, Morgan Freeman, Richard E. Grant, Ryan Reynolds, Salma Hayek, Samuel L. Jackson, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard,’ a sequel to a franchise you didn’t know existed

Who Cares if Loki is Genderfluid?

June 17, 2021June 18, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Enchantress, genderfluid, Loki, Marvel, Odin, Owen Wilson, Squirrel Girl, Tom Hiddleston

Marvel barely pushes the envelope

AUTHOR STUFF Featured Stories FICTION Politics

Authors Warn About Content Warnings in Books

June 17, 2021June 18, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments Ashley Bloom, Carmen Maria Machado, Content warnings, Erin Taylor, Every Bone a Prayer, Haunt Publishing, In The Dream House, Nick Mamatas, Renée Dahlia, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Carmen Maria Machado, Silvia Moreno Garcia, and others take to Twitter to decry censorship

Waiting for a Better Godot

June 17, 2021June 18, 2021 Matt Hanson 0 Comments Ethan Hawke, John Leguizamo, Robin Williams, Samuel Beckett, Steve Martin, Tariq Trotter, Waiting for Godot, Wallace Shawn

A wacky all-star online Zoom version of the play brings some laughs, but loses Beckett’s dark poetry

CREATORS FILM

Disney’s ‘Heroes & Villains’ Costume Exhibit Comes to Life at Seattle’s MoPOP

June 16, 2021June 18, 2021 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Beauty and the Beast, Captain Jack Sparrow, Cinderella, Disney, Dumbo, Emily Blunt, Heroes & Villains, Hocus Pocus, Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins, MoPOP, The Black Hole

It’s time to dress up again

‘Forget the Alamo’ Rewrites the Texas Myth

June 16, 2021June 17, 2021 Neal Pollack 1 Comment Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Davy Crockett, Donald Trump, Forget the Alamo, Jason Stanford, Jim Bowie, Phil Collins, Tom Hanks, Walt Disney, William Travis

An entertaining deconstruction of the ‘Heroic Anglo Narrative’

FILM

The Best of Ned Beatty

June 16, 2021June 17, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Back to School, Burt Reynolds, Deliverance, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Network, Paddy Chayefsky, Rango, Superman, White Lightning

Remembering one of the great character actors, who died Sunday at age 83

CLASSICS FILM

Nine Musicals to Watch if You Loved ‘In The Heights’

June 15, 2021 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments Black Orpheus, Coco, Esther Williams, Fiddler On The Roof, Fred Astaire, Frida Kahlo, Hamilton, In The Heights, Jon M. Chu, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Million Dollar Mermaid, Moana, Royal Wedding, Stanley Donen, Step Up 2, Step Up 3D

From Fred Astaire and Esther Williams to ‘Step Up 3D’

FILM

The Truth is Up There

June 15, 2021June 18, 2021 Samuel Porteous 2 Comments 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, Aliens, Brother John, Contact, Independence Day: Resurgence, Mars Attacks, UFOs, War of the Worlds

With the FBI UFO report coming June 25, we assess our cinematic encounters with aliens

COMICS FILM TELEVISION

This is Super Us

June 14, 2021June 16, 2021 Neal Pollack 1 Comment Batman, Fantastic Four, Invincible, Josh Duhamel, Jupiter's Legacy, Sky High, Spider-Man, superhero, Superman, Superman Returns, The Boys, WandaVision

What’s with all the superhero family drama?

TELEVISION

The Many Faces of Jean Smart

June 14, 2021June 17, 2021 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments Designing Women, Fargo, Garden State, Hacks, Jean Smart, Mare of Easttown, Michael McKean, Nathan Lane, Overkill, The Brady Bunch Movie, The Man Who Came To Dinner, The Oblongs, Watchmen, Youth In Revolt

‘Designing Women,’ an extraordinary recent run on HBO, and a significant body of work in between

Book and Film Globe Podcasts

BFG Podcast #008: ‘Sex and Vanity,’ ‘In The Heights,’ ‘Feel Good,’ Bo Burnham, and More!

June 13, 2021June 15, 2021 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Bo Burnham, Feed Good, In The Heights, Inside, Jamie Mason, Kevin Kwan, Neal Pollack, Paula Shaffer, Rob Kutner, Sex and Vanity, Stephen Garrett

Our editor and writers break down the week in culture

FILM

‘In The Heights’ is the Song of the Summer

June 11, 2021June 11, 2021 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Aidy Bryant, In The Heights, Jimmy Smits, John M. Chu, Leslie Grace, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Melissa Barrera

Partying and dreaming on the block

FICTION Young Adult

Literary World Reacts to Publishers’ Striking Questionable Lines

June 11, 2021June 16, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments

They pulled ‘offensive’ dialogue from authors Elin Hilderbrand’s and Casey McQuiston’s best-sellers

TELEVISION

He was an Antler Boy

June 10, 2021June 14, 2021 G.L. Ford 0 Comments Adeel Akhtar, Christian Convery, Jeff Lemire, Josh Brolin, Sweet Tooth, Will Forte

Beware ‘Sweet Tooth’, Netflix’s hit YA-grade plague-porn series

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