Kaveh Jalinous, Author at Book and Film Globe

Cliffhanger

In Defense of the Cliffhanger

June 7, 2023 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Across the Spider-Verse, Cliffhangers, Fax X, Gwen Stacy, Miles Morales

Why it works in ‘Spider-Verse’ and flops in ‘Fast X’

Why Are These Disney Remakes So Long?

May 24, 2023 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Disney, Halle Bailey, Rob Marshall, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid

Diving into what fuels bloated reboot runtimes

The Idol

Nobody’s Working for The Weeknd

March 9, 2023March 13, 2023 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Abel Tesfaye, Dan Levy, Euphoria, Lily-Rose Depp, Rolling Stone, Sam Levinson, The IDol, The Weeknd

Controversy swirls around the “crazy” forthcoming HBO Show ‘The Idol’

Riseborough

The Rise of Riseborough

February 6, 2023February 8, 2023 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Allison Janney, Andrea Riseborough, Danielle Deadwyler, Kate Winslet, Marc Maron, Owen Teague, To Leslie, Viola Davis

What’s behind this year’s most controversial and surprising Oscar nominee?

Don't Worry Darling

What, Me Worry?

September 13, 2022October 4, 2022 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Chris Pine, Don't Worry Darling, Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Jason Sudeikis, Olivia Wilde, Shia LaBoeuf

The insane, absurd publicity drama around ‘Don’t Worry Darling,’ a middling movie with an A-list cast

Venice

Lights, Camera, Lido!

September 6, 2022September 7, 2022 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Alejandro González Iñárritu, Athena, Cate Blanchett, Frederick Wiseman, Lars Von Trier, Luca Guadagnino, Nan Golden, Noah Baumbach, Paul Schrader, Romain Gavras, Tár, Timothée Chalamet, White Noise

A report from the Venice Biennale

Bromance

The Year of the Bromance

July 28, 2022August 1, 2022 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Bromance, Carey Williams, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Cooper Raiff, Emergency, Glen Powell, Miles Teller, Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, RRR, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Tom Cruise, Top Gun Maverick

Complicated male friendships thrive on film in 2022

Lightyear

Is ‘Lightyear’ Too Woke?

June 27, 2022October 11, 2022 Kaveh Jalinous 30 Comments Chris Evans, Disney, Keke Palmer, Lightyear, Pixar, Soul, Top Gun Maverick, Toy Story, Turning Red

Or are there other reasons why the latest Pixar movie flopped?

How to Make a Great Legacy Sequel

June 23, 2022June 27, 2022 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Colin Trevorrow, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Jason Reitman, Joseph Kosinski, Jurassic World: Dominion, Laura Dern, Miles Teller, Sam Neill, Tom Cruise, Top Gun Maverick

Why ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ succeeded where ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ and ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ failed

Stranger Things

The Binge-Watching Model is Unsustainable

June 15, 2022June 20, 2022 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Binge watching, Euphoria, Kate Bush, Netflix, Severance, Stranger Things, The Dropout, The Duffer Brothers

What was once novel is now a discussion killer