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

Last Kingdom

‘The Last Kingdom’: the End of Tribalism

April 20, 2022April 25, 2022 G.L. Ford 0 Comments Alexander Dreymon, The Last Kingdom, Uthred

Uhtred nobly tries to unite the nations one last time

Tinder Swindler

Fear the ‘Tinder Swindler’

February 10, 2022 G.L. Ford 0 Comments Tinder Swindler

Netflix’s true-crime documentary is candy for people who love watching romantic misery

FICTION FILM TELEVISION

High Hopes for ‘The Rings of Power’

January 26, 2022January 28, 2022 G.L. Ford 0 Comments J.D. Payne, J.R.R Tolkien, Liam Neeson, Lord Of The Rings, Middle-earth, Patrick McKay, Simon Merrells, The Rings of Power

My barber Billy and I want Amazon to do this Lord of the Rings series right

Maid

Maid To Be Alone

October 11, 2021November 15, 2021 G.L. Ford 0 Comments Andie MacDowell, Maid, Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, Rylea Nevaeh Whittet

The system conspires against our heroine in the brilliant Netflix series ‘Maid’

The Chair

Hail to ‘The Chair’

August 25, 2021March 29, 2022 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, 2021March 16, 2022 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, 2021March 15, 2022 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

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