Dan Friedman, Author at Book and Film Globe

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

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‘The Hawk’ Scores a Triple Bogey

August 2, 2026August 5, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Anchorman, Blades of Glory, Book and Film Globe, Chili's, Comedy, Destin Daniel Cretton, Fortune Feimster, golf, golf comedy, Jimmy Tatro, Luke Wilson, Molly Shannon, Netflix, PGA Tour, Ricky Bobby, sports comedy, Streaming Television, Talladega Nights, Television, The Hawk, TV review, Will Ferrell

The latest Will Ferrell vehicle is a large, empty, golfing bus

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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

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No Place for Anything, Least of all, Soccer

May 31, 2026June 6, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Apple TV, B-67, Brandon Scott Smith, Derek Sullivan, documentary, football, Ilulissat, Nicolai Nielsen, No Place for Football, Noah Mølgaard, Nuuk, Patrick Frederiksen, President Trump, soccer

A new documentary about football in Greenland provokes thoughts about sport and politics

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Documentaries, Biopics, and Other Promotional Material

May 26, 2026May 26, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments A Complete Unknown, Amanda Knox, Amy Winehouse, Better Man, biopics, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, celebrity culture, cinema and commerce, documentaries, documentary filmmaking, Elton John, Elvis Presley, film criticism, film industry, Gregg Allman, Hollywood, intellectual property, IP filmmaking, Jiminy Glick, Martin Scorsese, Martin Short, Marty Life Is Short, Melania Trump, michael movie, music biopics, Netflix, Patrick Spikes, Robbie Williams, Rocketman, Simran Hans, Streaming Television, The Guardian, Whitney Houston

How far are fact-based movies just access journalism in cinematic form?

What a Slugfest! Baby Yoda and Mando are Back

May 19, 2026May 19, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments 2026 movies, action adventure films, Ahsoka, Andor, AT-ATs, Baby Yoda, cinematic universes, Disney films, Disney Star Wars, fan service, film criticism, franchise filmmaking, genre storytelling, George Lucas, Grogu, Hollywood blockbusters, Jon Favreau, Lucasfilm, Lucasfilm productions, Martin Scorsese, movie review, Pedro Pascal, pop culture criticism, sci fi movies, science fiction films, science fiction franchises, Sigourney Weaver, space opera, space western, Star Wars, Star Wars canon, Star Wars fandom, television spinoffs, The Mandalorian, The Mandalorian and Grogu

The Latest Star Wars Blockbuster Comes With Rows of Hutts

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Was ‘Ronaldinho: The One and Only’?

April 27, 2026May 13, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments 2002 World Cup, ac milan, atletico mineiro, barcelona fc, brazil national team, brazilian football, club football politics, cristiano ronaldo, david seaman goal, el clasico, flamengo vs santos 2011, football culture, football documentaries, football history, football legacy, goat debate, joao mendes, jogo bonito, lionel messi, luis ara series, neymar jr, paraguay prison scandal, paris saint germain, player lifestyle controversy, porto alegre, real madrid, roberto de assis moreira, ronaldinho, ronaldo de assis moreira, ronaldo nazario, skill and flair, soccer biography

Mini-series about the Brazilian soccer star is designed to whet our World Cup whistle

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Plastic is Shrinking America’s Dicks

April 12, 2026May 13, 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

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The Sci Fi Short Story That Rocked Wall Street

March 22, 2026May 13, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments ai agents, ai and labor, ai disruption, ai economy, AI ethics, ai risk, artificial intelligence, automation, capitalism, citrini research, consumer economy, Darwin, dystopian fiction, financial commentary, financial markets, Freud, future of work, Galileo, ghost gdp, H.G. Wells, John Wyndham, Jonathan Swift, King Kong, market panic, science fiction, speculative fiction, Taylorism, the 2028 global intelligence crisis, unemployment, Wall Street, white collar jobs

Citrini became famous overnight by its dystopian tale of artificial intelligence

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‘Project Hail Mary’: Across the Ryanverse

March 17, 2026March 23, 2026 Dan Friedman 3 Comments 2001 a space odyssey comparison, alien buddy movie, alien communication, Amazon MGM Studios, Andy Weir, astronaut films, astrophage, book to film adaptation, Christopher Miller, deep space survival, Drew Goddard, first contact sci fi, lord and miller films, Phil Lord, Project Hail Mary, project hail mary movie, Ridley Scott, rocky eridian, Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Hüller, sci fi movies 2026, sci-fi comedy, science fiction adaptation, space movies, spider verse creators, the lego movie creators, The Martian, the martian comparison

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are back, with an Andy Weir adaptation

Everything You Need to Know for the Oscars Tonight

March 15, 2026March 15, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Academy Awards, arthouse cinema, awards preview, Awards Season, Best Picture, Book and Film Globe, Bugonia, Chloé Zhao, cinema, Emma Stone, Film Awards, film criticism, film industry, genre film, Hamnet, Hollywood, independent film, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, movie awards, Oscars, Oscars 2026, Paul Mescal, Ryan Coogler, Sinners, Yorgos Lanthimos

Make Book and Film Globe your Academy Companion

When Life Becomes a Video Game

February 25, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Dungeon Crawler Carl, LitRPG, Matt Dinniman, science fiction

‘Operation Bounce House’ is an ambitious mixture of AIs, generation ships, social media and video games

When Yuri Gagarin Solves Who Killed Romeo and Juliet

February 1, 2026February 7, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Alastair Reynolds, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Arthur C Clarke Award, generation ships, Halcyon Years, hard-boiled mystery, noir science fiction, Rivers Solomon, space detective fiction, Welsh science fiction writers, Yuri Gagarin

Alastair Reynolds has a surprising amount of fun with a generation ship noir

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Assymetric Tunics Are a Mark of Status in the 32nd Century

January 18, 2026January 21, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments costume design in TV, Federation rebuilding, Genre Television, Jean-Luc Picard, Paramount Plus, Patrick Stewart, science fiction culture, Science Fiction TV, Star Trek, Star Trek canon, Star Trek future, Star Trek legacy, Star Trek television, Star Trek uniforms, Starfleet, Starfleet Academy, Television Criticism, The Burn, The Next Generation, TV aesthetics, TV reviews, worldbuilding

Starfleet Academy gets off to an uneven start

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The End of a Neighborhood Restaurant Feels Like a Divorce

January 6, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Business Breakups, Creative Partnerships, Food and Film, Independent Documentaries, Israeli Cinema, Orna and Ella, Restaurant Culture, Tel Aviv, Tomer Heymann, Women Entrepreneurs

‘Orna and Ella’ is personal, for documentarian Tomer Heymann

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