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BFG Podcast #310: ‘Supergirl,’ ‘Minions and Monsters,’ and a Load of Jackasses

July 15, 2026July 15, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments bar trivia, Book and Film Globe, DC Studios, film criticism, Illumination, Jackass Best and Last, Jeopardy!, Jeopardy! Bar League, Jessica Babbitt, Matthew Sheffer, Minions and Monsters, movie podcast, Neal Pollack, Paramount Pictures, Pixar, Podcast, Pop Culture, Post-Trebek Stress Disorder, pub trivia, Sea of Reeds Media, Stephen Garrett, Supergirl, Toy Story 5, trivia, trivia championships

Neal, Stephen and Jessica talk summer movies, Jeopardy! bar trivia, Jackasses and more

Since When Did It Become A Crime To Be a Jewish Writer?

July 14, 2026July 14, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments A Silent Moratorium, Amazon reviews, Antisemitism, antisemitism in publishing, authors, book bans, book publishing, book reviews, books, Censorship, cultural boycott, Dinaw Mengestu, Frankenstein's Matzah, free speech, freedom of expression, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Israeli writers, jewish identity, Jewish writers, K. Marcus, literary criticism, literary culture, October 7, Passover, PEN America, Publishing, publishing industry, Sally Rooney, Suzanne Nossel, writing

PEN’S latest scandal should be the final wakeup call

BOOKS History NON-FICTION

Marc Bloch Enters the Panthéon

July 14, 2026July 14, 2026 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Alan Riding, Alsace, And the Show Went On, André Malraux, Antisemitism, Charles de Gaulle, Charlie Hebdo, Dreyfus Affair, Émile Zola, France, Franco-Prussian War, French history, French military, French politics, French Resistance, Holocaust, immigration, Jean Jaurès, Jewish history, L'Étrange Défaite, Marc Bloch, Marshal Philippe Pétain, Mein Kampf, military history, National identity, National security, Nazi Germany, Pantheon, Paris attacks 2015, Resistance history, Sorbonne, The Strange Defeat, Vichy France, Victor Hugo, World War II

A resistance hero and historian who exposed French antisemitism gets his due

Slavoj Žižek Can’t Name the Monster Anymore

July 13, 2026July 12, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 2 Comments algorithmic politics, algorithms, attention economy, authoritarianism, Bloomsbury, Book Review, contemporary politics, critical theory, Donald Trump, dopamine politics, Elysium, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Giorgia Meloni, Hegel, Hollywood, Jacques Lacan, Javier Milei, Jean Baudrillard, Liberal Fascisms, liberalism, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Narendra Modi, Nayib Bukele, Nonfiction, philosophy, political philosophy, political theory, populism, Slavoj Žižek, social media, Star Wars, The Hunger Games, The Matrix

‘Liberal Fascisms’ is the latest of the viral Slovenian philosophers collected essays

PEN President Resigns To Protest the Uncovering of Antisemitism

July 12, 2026July 12, 2026 Rebecca Kurson 0 Comments Achille Lauro, Anne Boyer, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, authors, BDS, Beirut Fragments, book publishing, cancel culture, Censorship, Dinaw Mengestu, Doubleday, editorial standards, free speech, freedom of expression, Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, Gaza, George Packer, Hamas, identity politics, Israel, Leon Klinghoffer, literary culture, Marjane Satrapi, New York Times Magazine, October 7, Park Slope Food Coop, PEN America, performative activism, performative quitting, Publishing, publishing industry, self-censorship, SodaStream, Suzanne Nossel, The Atlantic, The Believer, Thomas Gebremedhin, Vogue, writers

How did an organization designed to protect writers end up abandoning Jews to persecution?

Comedy Featured Stories FILM

‘The Invite’ Prompt Was — Bergman, But Make It Funny!

July 11, 2026July 14, 2026 Laura Pruden 1 Comment Adam Newport-Berra, Cesc Gay, Comedy, Edward Norton, ensemble cast, film review, independent film, Ingmar Bergman, Jade Healy, marriage, middle age, Olivia Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Penelope Cruz, play adaptation, Rashida Jones, relationship comedy, romantic comedy, Seth Rogen, sex comedy, Spanish cinema, The Invite, The People Upstairs, Will McCormack

Olivia Wilde directs and acts in a comedy about love and marriage in middle-age

Featured Stories FILM

Traumatized Young Woman?

July 10, 2026July 14, 2026 Neal Pollack 1 Comment Book and Film Globe, comic book movies, CW Supergirl, DC Comics, DC Studios, DC Universe, Fantasy, film review, Gal Gadot, graphic novels, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Helen Slater, James Gunn, Justice League Unlimited, Kara Zor-El, Krypton, Melissa Benoist, Milly Alcock, Patty Jenkins, science fiction, Supergirl, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, superhero movies, Superman, women superheroes, Wonder Woman

‘Supergirl’ disappoints in all the key ways

DOCUMENTARY FILM

Ross McElwee Takes a Long, Hard Look at His Late Son and Himself in ‘Remake’

July 9, 2026July 9, 2026 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments 4K restoration, Adrian McElwee, Albert Maysles, Amy Adams, autobiographical documentary, bipolar disorder, Chris Marker, CIvil War, D.A. Pennebaker, David Maysles, direct cinema, documentary, documentary film, film criticism, Film Forum, Film Forum NYC, film restoration, filmmaking, grief, independent film, Michael Moore, Morgan Spurlock, National Film Registry, nonfiction cinema, opioid addiction, personal documentary, Remake, Ross McElwee, Sans Soleil, Sherman's March, Steve Carr, William Tecumseh Sherman

The latest from the legendary documentarian is his most devastating yet.

Comedy Streaming TELEVISION

Louis CK Gets ‘Ridiculous’ and Grumpy

July 9, 2026July 9, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments #metoo, aging, American comedy, cancel culture, comedians, comedy special, humor, Louis C.K., mortality, Netflix, Netflix comedy, New York City, Pop Culture, Ridiculous, social commentary, Stand Up Comedy, Streaming, Television Review

First Netflix special for 9 years is entertaining but limited

Featured Stories FILM

‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ With the Revolutionary Guard

July 8, 2026July 10, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments

Azar Nafisi’s memoir finally hits the big screen

BOOKS Featured Stories

The Long, Poisonous Roots of Conspiracy Theories

July 8, 2026July 10, 2026 Gordon Haber 0 Comments Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, anti-vaxxers, Book and Film Globe, Book Review, CIA, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theory, Deep State, disinformation, fake news, Franz Neumann, Girolamo Savonarola, Great Replacement, Hannah Arendt, history, Intellectual History, John F. Kennedy assassination, Joseph McCarthy, Karl Popper, Marxism, Maurice Joly, misinformation, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nonfiction, OSS, philosophy, Pizzagate, political history, politics, Princeton University Press, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, psychology, QAnon, Richard Hofstadter, Stop the Steal, The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory, The Prince, Watergate

In his ‘Hidden History’ Andrew McKenzie-McHarg goes back to Machiavelli and wide to ‘Yankees and Cowboys’

Featured Stories Streaming TELEVISION

Calling all Byrd Watchers

July 7, 2026July 9, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments AIDS crisis, Annie Sprinkle, Bang My Box The Robin Byrd Story, Channel J, creator economy, documentary, free speech, gay rights, HBO, Jyllian Gunther, LGBTQ history, LGBTQ+, Max, New York City, public access television, public access TV, Reagan era, Robin Byrd, Sarah Jessica Parker, sex positivity, Shelly Byrd, social media, Stephanie Schwam, Television, transgender visibility, TV documentary

A Sarah Jessica Parker production portrays the sex-positive influencer who preceded social media

Comedy Featured Stories FILM

Minions and Monsters With Movies and Mayhem

July 4, 2026July 9, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Allison Janney, animated film, animation, Bobby Moynihan, Book and Film Globe, Brian Lynch, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Christoph Waltz, Comedy, Cthulhu, Despicable Me, family film, film review, George Lucas, H.P. Lovecraft, Harold Lloyd, Hollywood, Illumination, Jeff Bridges, Jesse Eisenberg, Minions, Minions and Monsters, Modern Times, movies, Phil LaMarr, Pierre Coffin, Safety Last, silent films, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Blob, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Trey Parker, Universal Pictures, Zoey Deutch

Is this the nail in the Pierre Coffin series?

Featured Stories FILM

America at 250 Is a Clash of ‘Taxi Driver’ vs ‘All the President’s Men’

July 3, 2026July 9, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 1970s cinema, 1976 films, Alan J. Pakula, algorithms, alienation, All the President's Men, America at 250, American cinema, American politics, antihero, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, cultural criticism, democracy, Dustin Hoffman, Fight Club, film criticism, Hollywood, institutions, Journalism, local journalism, loneliness, loneliness epidemic, manosphere, Martin Scorsese, media consolidation, media trust, movies, news media, newspapers, Paul Schrader, political films, Richard Nixon, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, social media, Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle, Washington Post, Watergate

Travis Bickle is wiping the floor with Woodward and Bernstein

Streaming TELEVISION

‘Star City’ Depicts the Space Race as Run by the Evil Empire

July 2, 2026July 2, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments Agnes O'Casey, alternate history, Anna Maxwell Martin, Apple TV, Chernobyl, Cold War, For All Mankind, Joe Barton, KGB, Leonid Brezhnev, NASA, Rhys Ifans, Richard Nixon, science fiction, Sergei Korolev, Soviet Union, space exploration, space race, spy thriller, Star City, Television, TV review, Venera program, Venus mission, Yuri Gagarin

‘For All Mankind’ Gets the ‘Chernobyl’ Treatment

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