Book and Film Globe

Thursday, June 27, 2019

Feel Bad TV

June 26, 2019June 26, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Breaking Bad, Don Draper, Euphoria, Holocaust, Holocaust on NBC, Meryl Streep, Roots, The Handmaid's Tale, Tony Soprano, Treme, When They See Us

Watching is Our Moral Duty, Apparently

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Dysphoria

June 26, 2019June 25, 2019 Elijah Pollack 0 Comments Euphoria, HBO, Zendaya

HBO’s ‘Euphoria’ Does Not Whatsoever Reflect the Lives of Real Teens. Signed, a Real Teenager.

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10 Things I Love About Rom Com Fest

June 25, 2019June 26, 2019 Kristin Clifford 0 Comments 10 Things I Hate About You, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Miraya Burke, Never Been Kissed, Rachel Bloom, Rom Com Fest

Reclaiming the Chick Flick for People Who Love Them

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Thank You For Being My Friends

June 25, 2019June 25, 2019 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments Bea Arthur, Betty White, Estelle Getty, George Clooney, Leslie Nielsen, Mario Lopez, Quentin Tarantino, Rue McLanahan, The Golden Girls

Why Millennials Love ‘The Golden Girls’

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FICTION Young Adult

‘Patron Saints Of Nothing’

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Patron Saints of Nothing, Randy Ribay, Rodrigo Duterte

A Filipino-American Teen Immersed in Duterte’s Drug Crackdown

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KGB Baby

June 24, 2019June 23, 2019 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Anna, Helen Mirren, Luc Besson, Sasha Luss

‘Anna’: a Formulaic Sexy Spy Thriller from Luc Besson

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‘Toy Story 4’: the Clingy Cowboy

June 21, 2019June 22, 2019 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Annie Potts, Jordan Peele, Keanu Reeves, Keegan Michael Key, Pixar, Tom Hanks, Tony Hale, Toy Story 4

An Animated Parable About a Needy Ex-Boyfriend

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SmartChucky™

June 21, 2019 Pablo Gallaga 0 Comments Aubrey Plaza, Brian Tyree Henry, Child's Play, Chucky, Mark Hamill

In the ‘Child’s Play’ Reboot, We’re All Connected…by Terror

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Netflix TELEVISION

‘When They See Us’

June 20, 2019June 21, 2019 Erika Schickel 0 Comments Ava DuVernay, Donald Trump, Felicity Huffman, Jharrel Jerome, Oprah Winfrey, The Central Park Five, Vera Farmiga

I Once Played the Central Park Jogger, but Ava DuVernay’s Netflix Miniseries Tells the Real Story

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Murder at the Magic School

June 20, 2019June 20, 2019 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Harry Potter, Lev Grossman, Magic For Liars, Sarah Gailey, The Magicians

In ‘Magic For Liars,” a Private Eye Who’s Not a Dick

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We Got a Great Big Convoy

June 19, 2019June 19, 2019 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments American Truck Simulator, SCS Software

The Strangely Relaxing Charms of American Truck Simulator

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FICTION Young Adult

‘Let Me Hear A Rhyme’

June 19, 2019 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Biggie Smalls, Let Me Hear A Rhyme, Malik Shafir, Malik-16, Tiffany D. Jackson

Remembering Non-Hipster Brooklyn in the 90s, and a Hip-Hop Mystery

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Netflix TELEVISION

Tales of the Kinda Shitty

June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 Neal Pollack 2 Comments Anna Madrigal, Armistead Maupin, Ellen Page, Jen Richards, Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Tales of the City, Zosia Mamet

Netflix’s ‘Tales of the City’ Revival Wallows in Nostalgia for the Present

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Drug Dorks of Germany

June 18, 2019 Elijah Pollack 0 Comments Breaking Bad, How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast)

‘How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)’ on Netflix

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A Porpoise-Driven Life

June 17, 2019June 17, 2019 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, The Porpoise

Mark Haddon’s New Novel Plays With Narrative, to Narrative’s Detriment

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