Book and Film Globe

Saturday, October 24, 2020

The Witches

Witchy Woman

October 24, 2020October 24, 2020 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Anne Hathaway, Kenya Barris, Nicolas Roeg, Octavia Spencer, Robert Zemeckis, The Witches

Robert Zemeckis’s ‘The Witches’ is freakish, not in the best way

Haunting of Bly Manor

Netflix TELEVISION

A Good Old-Fashioned Ghost Story

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Ryan Kallberg 0 Comments Henry Thomas, Mike Flanagan, T'Nia Miller, The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Haunting Of Hill House, Victoria Pedretti

‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ on Netflix

Borat

Featured Stories FILM

‘Borat’ Versus the Virus

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Borat, Donald Trump, Maria Bakalova, Mike Pence, Rudy Giuliani, Sacha Baron Cohen

Sacha Baron Cohen pranks Rudy Giuliani, and America, in a high-concept pandemic sequel

Chris Pratt

Actors CREATORS

Much Ado About Chris Pratt

October 22, 2020 Jonah Dylan 0 Comments Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Katherine Schwarzenegger, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, The Avengers, Zoë Saldana

Is he a Republican? Who cares?

movies

Featured Stories FILM

European Study Reminds Us: It’s Safe To Go To The Movies

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 Neal Pollack 2 Comments Another Round, COVID-19, Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train, Hocus Pocus, Mads Mikkelsen, Movie theaters, Sonny Bunch, Will Leitch

Not one case of COVID-19 traced to moviegoing, anywhere in the world

Quibi

The Death of Quibi

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 Jake Harris 0 Comments HBO Max, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman, Peacock, Quibi, TikTok

We hardly knew you: The mobile-only streaming service was only six months old

Rebecca

de Winter is Coming

October 21, 2020October 23, 2020 Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell 0 Comments Alfred Hitchcock, Armie Hammer, Daphne du Maurier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Rebecca

Netflix’s lame remake of ‘Rebecca’

Hubie Halloween

Enter Sandman

October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 Jon Hart 0 Comments Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Colin Quinn, Escape At Dannemora, Hubie Halloween, Julie Bowen, Kevin James, Ray Liotta, Rob Scheider, Steve Buscemi

Adam Sandler takes on everyone’s favorite holiday in the good-natured and typically ridiculous ‘Hubie Halloween’

Booker

I’m Still Reading The Booker Prize Novels So You Don’t Have To

October 20, 2020October 22, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Booker Prize, Brandon Taylor, C. Pam Zhang, Diane Cook, Douglas Stuart, Hilary Mantel, How Much Of These Hills is Gold, Real Life, Shuggie Bain, The Mirror and the Light, The New Wilderness, This Moveable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga

The slog continues

The Happily Ever After

Time to Change

October 20, 2020October 21, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Anna Weiner, Avi Steinberg, The Happily Ever After, Uncanny Valley

In ‘The Happily Ever After’ and ‘Uncanny Valley,’ writers escape from the dowdy world of literary publishing

American Utopia

DOCUMENTARY FILM MUSIC

Makes Sense

October 19, 2020 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments American Utopia, David Byrne, Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee, Stop Making Sense

Spike Lee directs David Byrne in the concert film ‘American Utopia’

Animaniacs

Totally Insaney

October 19, 2020October 22, 2020 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments Animaniacs, Jess Harnell, Maurice Lamarche, Pinky and The Brain, Rob Paulsen, Steven Spielberg, Tress MacNeille

The return of the Animaniacs

Time

DOCUMENTARY FILM

Doing ‘Time’

October 16, 2020October 17, 2020 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Garrett Bradley, Time

A Louisiana family faces the injustices of the prison system in this spare, lyrical documentary

Don Hertzfeldt

Don Hertzfeldt Returns to Tomorrow

October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Blade Runner, Don Hertzfeldt, The Simpsons, World of Tomorrow

The master of animated stick-figure existential humor is back

Can't Even

You Better Work

October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Anne Helen Petersen, Buzzfeed, Can't Even

‘Can’t Even’ offers a history of U.S. labor, and defends burnt-out millennials

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