Who Will Win the Oscars? A Special BFG Podcast
Neal Pollack and Stephen Garrett run the rule over this year’s contenders and also savage ‘The Bride!’
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Author: Neal Pollack
Pixar’s ‘Hoppers’ Is a Looney Tunes Eco-Fable
Mabel and her beavers bring a dam fine film to Disney’s pantheon
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Baz Luhrmann Gives Elvis, Belatedly, the Role of His Lifetime
In ‘EPiC,’ lost concert footage captures Elvis Presley at the height of his sweaty, charismatic power.
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Welcome to the AI-pocalypse
Gore Verbinski is back with a nutso kind of ‘Black Mirror’ movie
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New On Criterion : David Cronenberg Gets Lost in ‘The Shrouds’
Serious themes about grief and the carnality of death become muddled in a talky cyber-conspiracy
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Pollack Out
My time at Book and Film Globe has ended, and the world weeps
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‘Materialists’: Celine Song Gets It All Wrong
Dakota Johnson stars in snoozy, unfunny romcom
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‘Mountainhead’: Confirmation Bias About Tech For the Chattering Classes
Premium content for people who think they’re premium, but aren’t
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‘Thunderbolts’: What About Bob?
Not-bad Marvel installment features character who’s the MCU’s new pal Poochie
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Paramount Wears It
In a rough two days for the media corporation, ’60 Minutes’ and Nathan Fielder stomp all over the hand that feeds them
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Up Yours, Ted Sarandos, Movie Theaters Are Back!
Netflix CEO picked the wrong weekend to say that people just want to stay home and chill
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‘Black Mirror’ Season 7 Is In Your Brain
Everyone gets an implant as we approach some sort of singularity
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Public Funding for PBS and NPR is Coming to an End
In a nation divided, nationally-funded media makes less sense than ever
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‘Warfare’ May Be the Most Viscerally Realistic Combat Movie Ever Made
Iraq, in real time, without sentiment
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In ‘Drop,’ Meghann Fahy Looks At Her Phone For 90 Minutes, Followed By Extreme Violence
A nasty little exploitation picture in disguise as a fun, snarky modern puzzlebox thriller
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