G.L. Ford, Author at Book and Film Globe

The Chair

Hail to ‘The Chair’

August 25, 2021September 5, 2021 G.L. Ford 0 Comments Amanda Peet, Annie Julia Wyman, Holland Taylor, Jay Duplass, Sandra Oh, The Chair, Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Netflix academic farce is triggering professors everywhere

He-Man

He-Man: Masters of the Wokeverse

July 27, 2021August 4, 2021 G.L. Ford 1 Comment He-Man, Kevin Smith, Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Teela

Kevin Smith’s He-Man reboot is a weird balancing act between nostalgia and revisionism

Tolkien

CREATORS FICTION Politics Writers

J.R.R. Wolkien

June 28, 2021July 2, 2021 G.L. Ford 2 Comments Christopher Tolkien, J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings

The ancient world of Middle Earth runs into contemporary identity politics

Sweet Tooth

He was an Antler Boy

June 10, 2021August 3, 2021 G.L. Ford 0 Comments Adeel Akhtar, Christian Convery, Jeff Lemire, Josh Brolin, Sweet Tooth, Will Forte

Beware ‘Sweet Tooth’, Netflix’s hit YA-grade plague-porn series

Black Narcissus

Sisters on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 G.L. Ford 0 Comments Alessandro Nivola, Black Narcissus, Diana Rigg, Gemma Arterton, Kulvinder Ghir

Nuns go nuts in Nepal in FX’s ‘Black Narcissus’

Comey Rule

Politics TELEVISION

The Comey Drool

October 1, 2020October 2, 2020 G.L. Ford 0 Comments Brendon Gleeson, Donald Trump, James Comey, Jeff Daniels, The Comey Rule

Showtime miniseries is more like an anti-Trump Twitter feed than a film

Away

Netflix TELEVISION

Down, Down and ‘Away’

September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 G.L. Ford 0 Comments Away, Hilary Swank, Josh Charles, Mark Ivanir, Vivian Lu

Netflix show trades the thrill of a Mars expedition for soapy backstory

Cursed

Netflix TELEVISION

‘Cursed’ is a Feminist Arthurian Jumble

August 6, 2020August 5, 2020 G.L. Ford 1 Comment Cursed, Excalibur, Frank Miller, Katherine Langford, Tom Wheeler

Netflix show imagines what would have happened if the Lady Of The Lake wielded Excalibur

Cervantes

CREATORS FICTION Writers

The Defiling of Miguel de Cervantes

June 22, 2020July 7, 2020 G.L. Ford 29 Comments 1984, Antifa, Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, Ulysses S. Grant

Vandals in San Francisco desecrate a monument to the creator of the modern novel

Homecoming

‘Homecoming’ Forgets the Reason it Exists

May 29, 2020June 3, 2020 G.L. Ford 0 Comments Chris Cooper, Homecoming, Hong Chau, Janelle Monae, Joan Cusack, Julia Roberts, Stephan James

Janelle Monáe is here, though she doesn’t remember why

Tales From The Loop

‘Tales from the Loop’ Humanizes Sci-Fi

April 29, 2020May 5, 2020 G.L. Ford 0 Comments Abby Ryder Fortson, Ato Essandoh, Devs, Jonathan Pryce, Philip Glass, Rebecca Hall, Tales From The Loop, The Twilight Zone, Westworld

A hopeful vision for a hopeless age

Tomie dePaola

CREATORS Remembrance

Tomie dePaola, RIP

March 31, 2020April 2, 2020 G.L. Ford 0 Comments Tomie dePaola

Beloved children’s author dies at 85

Good place finale

The Good Place’s Suicide Solution

February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 G.L. Ford 6 Comments David Lynch, Eraserhead, The Atlantic, The Good Place, The Pixies, Vulture

In Heaven, Apparently, Everything is Fine

CREATORS Remembrance

Christopher Tolkien, 1924-2020

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 G.L. Ford 1 Comment C.S. Lewis, Christopher Tolkien, J.R.R Tolkien, Middle-earth, The Inklings, The Lord Of The Rings, The Silmarillion

Keeper of Middle-earth’s Legacy

Axis of Evil

December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 G.L. Ford 1 Comment Alexa Davalos, Rufus Sewell, Stephen Root, The Man In The High Castle

‘The Man In The High Castle’ Outrageously Gives the Holocaust a Happy Ending

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