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For Whom Is America the ‘Chosen Land’?

April 22, 2026April 22, 2026 Gordon Haber 0 Comments America, American Christianity, American history, Billy Graham, Black church history, Book Review, Catholicism in America, Chosen Land, Christ, Christian nationalism, Christian right, church and state, Deism, evangelicalism, Founding Fathers, George Whitefield, Jesus, liberation theology, mainline Protestantism, Matthew Sutton, nonfiction books, political religion, Protestantism in America, religion and politics, religious pluralism, separation of church and state, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Supreme Court

Matthew Sutton looks at the Christian roots and legacy of the United States project

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BFG Podcast #304: Diagnosing ‘The Pitt’ Season 2

April 21, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments ensemble cast, Gerran Howell, healthcare drama, hot doctor trope, ICE storyline, Isa Briones, Katherine LaNasa, Max TV series, medical drama, Noah Wyle, Patrick Ball, political TV, Prestige Television, Shawn Hatosy, Taylor Dearden, The Pitt, The Pitt Season 2, TV review

Neal Pollack, Jessica Babbit, Dan Friedman run the differentials

Trouble Comes to New Mexico in ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’

April 20, 2026April 20, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Billie Roy, Brendan Fraser, Egypt, Hayat Kamille, Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, Lee Cronin, May Calamawy, May Elghety, Natalie Grace, Seven., Shylo Molina, Silence of the Lambs, Stephen Sommer, The Exorcist, The mummy, The Omen, Verónica Falcón

Tutankhamun meets ‘The Exorcist’ in this latest installment of the franchise

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‘IF’: Imaginary Friends and Real Ryan Reynoldses

April 19, 2026April 19, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments

John Krasinski’s 2024 bomb hits Netflix and explodes into life

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‘The Pitt’ Season 2: A Postmortem

April 17, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments ensemble cast, Gerran Howell, healthcare drama, hot doctor trope, ICE storyline, Isa Briones, Katherine LaNasa, Max TV series, medical drama, Noah Wyle, Patrick Ball, political TV, Prestige Television, Shawn Hatosy, Taylor Dearden, The Pitt, The Pitt Season 2, TV review

Taking stock of Noah Wyle and HBO Max’s hot docs

BOOKS Graphic novels

Noir and Forgotten History Unite in ‘Death to Pachuco’

April 17, 2026April 15, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments civil rights history, comic book review, crime comics, Death to Pachuco, graphic novel, Henry Barajas, historical comics, Image Comics, indie comics, Latino representation, los angeles history, Mexican American history, noir comics, Pachuco culture, Rachel Merrill, racism in America, Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial, Spanglish dialogue, World War II home front, Zoot Suit Riots

Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill tell a wartime story of Mexicans in Los Angeles

‘City Wide Fever’ Is a Love Letter to Giallo

April 16, 2026April 16, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments Alamo Drafthouse, analog film, arthouse cinema, auteur cinema, City Wide Fever, cult film, Dario Argento, Diletta Guglielmi, experimental film, film review, giallo, giallo films, horror movies, Ian Fidance, independent film, Indie Horror, Italian horror, Josh Heaps, Mario Bava, midnight movie, surreal cinema

A unique homage to Italian horror hits theater screens

BOOKS Graphic novels

‘The Testaments’ Brings Us Back to Gilead

April 15, 2026April 15, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments book adaptation, Bruce Miller, Chase McKenzie, dystopian fiction, Elisabeth Moss, feminist dystopia, Gilead, Hulu, Lucy Halliday, Margaret Atwood, Mayday, political drama, prestige TV, series sequel, streaming TV, Television Review, The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, TV criticism

In the sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ Margaret Atwood and Bruce Miller take us to finishing school

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In ‘Cinematic Immunity,’ Film Crews Get the Final Edit

April 14, 2026April 17, 2026 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments behind the scenes filmmaking, Cinematic Immunity, cinematography stories, Cruising film, film crew interviews, film crews, film industry culture, film production, film set anecdotes, Gillian G Gaar, Hollywood labor, Hollywood vs New York, independent filmmaking history, Michael Lee Nirenberg, movie production history, New York filmmaking, oral history books, Saturday Night Fever, The Godfather, The Sopranos, union film crews

A new history of filmmaking brings stories of the sets

From Village to Myth: Moscow’s Thousand-Year Story

April 13, 2026April 13, 2026 Art Edwards 0 Comments Book Review, Eastern Europe, Golden Horde, Lenin, Mongols, Moscow, Napoleon, Peter the Great, political systems, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian history, Simon Morrison, Soviet Union, Stalin, Tatars, totalitarianism, Zaryadye

Simon Morrison’s sweeping history traces the rise of one of the world’s great cities

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Plastic is Shrinking America’s Dicks

April 12, 2026April 17, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Cancer Alley, documentary film reviews, Dr. Shanna Swan, endocrine disruptors, environmental documentary, green chemistry, infertility crisis, John Warner, Josh Murphy, Louie Psihoyos, Mark Monroe, Netflix, petrochemical industry, plastic pollution, public health, Rise St. James, Sharon Lavigne, The Plastic Detox

‘The Plastic Detox’ tries to move the needle using shock tactics and reality TV tropes

2 Chainz New Autobiography? It’s a Vibe

April 12, 2026April 11, 2026 J. Barnes 0 Comments 2 Chainz, 2026 books, AAVE in literature, Atlanta rap, Atria Books, Black Privilege Publishing, Book Review, celebrity memoirs, Derrick Harriell, hip-hop memoir, music industry books, Pretty Girls Like Trap Music, rap biography, rapper autobiographies, Sean Diddy Combs, spirituality in hip-hop, The Voice in My Head Is God

‘The Voice in My Head Is God’ is both a mess and a window into his mind

‘The Drama’ Uses Vomit in Place of Emotion, That’s Just the Start

April 10, 2026April 10, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Alana Haim, Boston films, controversial films, dark comedy, European cinema, film criticism, film review, Indie Film, Kristoffer Borgli, Mamoudou Athie, Millennials, Robert Pattinson, romantic comedy satire, The Drama, Zendaya

Kristoffer Borgli wants to skewer modern romcom conventions but ends with a smug exercise in millennial self-loathing

Spain is Going Crazy for ‘Torrente, Presidente’!

April 10, 2026April 11, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Alec Baldwin, comedy films, controversial films, European cinema, far-right politics, film franchise, film satire, Francisco Franco, Illuminati satire, independent film, José Luis Torrente, Kevin Spacey, political satire, Sacha Baron Cohen, Santiago Segura, Spain politics, Spanish cinema, Torrente Presidente, Torrente series, Vox party satire

In the sixth instalment of his box-office breaking series, Santiago Segura takes on politics

With Noir City, Black is Back

April 9, 2026April 8, 2026 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments black and white cinema, classic Hollywood cinema, crime and punishment themes, Doris Day, Double Indemnity, Eddie Muller, film noir, Film Noir Foundation, Frank Sinatra, Hollywood film festivals, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, jazz culture in film, Lauren Bacall, mid-century American film, Noir City, Sweet Smell of Success, The Asphalt Jungle, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Postman Always Rings Twice

New events across the continent celebrate the enduring appeal of the shadowy genre

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