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40 Years On, UConn’s Geno Auriemma is Still Butting Heads… and Winning

August 26, 2026August 26, 2026 Jon Hart 0 Comments Apple TV, basketball, Dawn Staley, Diana Taurasi, documentary, Erica Sashin, Geno Auriemma, Matthew Hamachek, NCAA basketball, Paige Bueckers, Pat Summitt, Rebecca Lobo, Sarah Strong, sports documentary, Television Review, The Dynasty: UConn Huskies, UConn, UConn Huskies, women's basketball

In ‘Dynasty,’ Apple covers his remarkable, often tumultuous career

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BFG Podcast #313: Dinosaurs in Suburbia, 24 Hours of Romance, and a Summer of Growing Up

August 25, 2026August 25, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Anthony Bourdain, film criticism, movie podcast, Neal Pollack, Podcast, Pop Culture, Sea of Reeds Media, Stephen Garrett, Tony

Neal, Stephen and Laura discuss summer movies about food, horror, and romance

A Warrior in a Blade Arrives To Confuse a Monk

August 25, 2026August 25, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Book Review, Bookshop.org, Bramble, Clocktaur War, cozy fantasy, Daggerbound, fantasy novels, medieval fantasy, romantasy, Saints of Steel, Swordheart, T Kingfisher, The Clockwork Boys, Ursula Vernon, World of the White Rat

‘Daggerbound’ extends the cast of charming characters in the World of the White Rat

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Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer Are Ready to ‘Ride or Die’

August 24, 2026August 25, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments action comedy, Amazon Prime Video, assassin, buddy comedy, Europe, Friendship, Game Of Thrones, Hannah Waddingham, Jason Statham, Octavia Spencer, Ride or Die, spy comedy, Streaming, Ted Lasso, Television Review, Tessa Coates, The Help, TV review

Women of a certain age showing they can kick ass

The Only Believable ‘Mutiny’ Will Be By Paying Audiences

August 22, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments action film, action review, Adrian Lester, Annabelle Wallis, bangkok, Die Hard, human trafficking, Jason Statham, Jason Statham movies, Jean-François Richet, Mutiny, Ramon Tikaram, revenge, Roland Møller, shipping, thriller

Jason Statham kicks some arse in this generic thriller

DOCUMENTARY FILM

Remember SNL’s Pat?

August 21, 2026August 22, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments androgyny, Christopher Walken, Comedy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, documentary, gender identity, It's Pat!, Julia Sweeney, Larry David, Matt Foley, nonbinary, Pat, Peacock, Rowan Haber, Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld, sketch comedy, SNL, Toonces, transgender, We Are Pat

New documentary argues Julia Sweeney’s character was inspiring — and maybe bigoted

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‘The Man Will Burn’ Wonders Whether Burning Man Has Lost Its Roots

August 20, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments art festival, Baker Beach, Black Rock City, Burning Man, Burning Man Project, counterculture, documentary, festival culture, HBO, HBO Max, Jehane Noujaim, Kimbal Musk, Marian Goodell, Nevada, San Francisco, Television Review, The Man Will Burn, Tribeca Festival, Vikram Gandhi

The iconic desert festival grows up, can it survive a decade of mainstream wealth?

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Is ‘Badly in Love’ Terrible Television or Brilliant Satire?

August 19, 2026August 23, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Awich, Badly in Love, Badly in Love Season 2, dating reality show, dating show, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese television, Love, MEGUMI, Nagano, Netflix, Okinawa, reality television, Reality TV, Romance, Television Review, yakuza, yankii

The Japanese reality dating show throws punks together to teach them romantic love

In ‘The Boundless Deep’ We See a Poet’s Struggle With Belief

August 19, 2026 Art Edwards 0 Comments agnosticism, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Arthur Hallam, astronomy, biography, Book Review, Darwin, evolution, faith, geology, In Memoriam, Pantheon, Poetry, religion, Richard Holmes, science, Tennyson, The Boundless Deep, Victorian literature

A young Alfred Lord Tennyson spent decades trying to resolve science and God

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In a Vigilante Tale, ‘Furious’ Has No Perfect Victims

August 17, 2026August 23, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments Crime Drama, Elizabeth Meriwether, Emmy Rossum, FBI, Furious, Hulu, Jake Lacy, Lola Petticrew, Medusa, mythology, Promising Young Woman, psychological horror, psychological thriller, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Scott McNairy, Serial Killer, sex trafficking, sex work, Steve Way, Streaming Television, TV review, vigilante

Hulu describes this Epstein-adjacent mythic psychological horror as a crime drama

‘End of Oak Street’ Is a Stroll in Triassic Park

August 15, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments 1980s, Aliens, Anne Hathaway, David Robert Mitchell, dinosaur movie, Ewan McGregor, horror, It Follows, Maisy Stella, Michigan, monster movie, Nashville, Poltergeist, Ray Harryhausen, Romancing the Stone, science fiction, Sigourney Weaver, The End of Oak Street, time travel

One amazing performance makes David Robert Mitchell’s 1980s B-movie worth watching

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Netflix’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Is a Cinematic Miracle

August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 2 Comments Ángela Cano, book adaptation, Carla Baratta, Claudio Cataño, Colombia, Dynamo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julián Román, Latin American cinema, Laura Mora, Laura Taylor, Licinia Alzate, Macondo, magical realism, Marleyda Soto, Netflix, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Streaming, Television Review

Magical Macondo comes to life even as Colombia suffers tragedy

It’s Not Far From the Thousand Year Reich to ‘The Infinite State,’ But Gabriel Is New

August 11, 2026August 11, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments 1984, authoritarianism, Book Review, democracy, dystopian fiction, empire, fascism, galactic empire, George Orwell, Infinite State, military science fiction, political fiction, Richard Swan, Robert Heinlein, science fiction, space opera, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, The Decurion Saga, totalitarianism, world building

Richard Swan’s new novel follows a new democracy setting up in the shadow of an oppressive interstellar empire

‘Tony’ Shows Us One Pivotal Summer in the Charismatic, Tragic Life of Anthony Bourdain

August 10, 2026August 10, 2026 Laura Pruden 0 Comments A24, Anthony Bourdain, Antonio Banderas, biopic, chef, cinema, coming of age, cooking, Dominic Sessa, Emilia Jones, food, Kitchen Confidential, Leo Woodall, Matt Johnson, movie review, Provincetown, restaurants, Tony, Tony Bourdain

Chasing after a girl, a young man finds a mentor and a vocation

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Smoking Hot Prudes Rock for ‘One Night Only’

August 9, 2026August 12, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Ben Marshall, Callum Turner, Comedy, dystopian fiction, Julia Fox, King Princess, LeVar Burton, Logan's Run, Maya Hawke, Molly Ringwald, Monica Barbaro, movie review, One Night Only, rom-com, romantic comedy, satire, science fiction, sex comedy, The Purge, Will Gluck

Authoritarian science fiction never looked so sexy

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