Robert Dean, Author at Book and Film Globe

Don’t Wait for ‘Busboys’

September 3, 2026August 30, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 2026 films, Bobby Lee, bro comedy, buddy comedy, Bus Boys, Charlotte McKinney, Chris Elliott, comedy films, Cowboy song, David Spade, film review, Hollywood comedies, Hulu, independent film, indie comedy, Jay Pharoah, Jonah Feingold, Kid Rock, movie review, offensive comedy, podcasts, Stand Up Comedy, Step Brothers, Superbad, Theo Von, Tim Dillon, Trevor Wallace

David Spade and Theo Von team up for a dumb buddy comedy

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Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer Are Ready to ‘Ride or Die’

August 24, 2026August 25, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments action comedy, Amazon Prime Video, assassin, buddy comedy, Europe, Friendship, Game Of Thrones, Hannah Waddingham, Jason Statham, Octavia Spencer, Ride or Die, spy comedy, Streaming, Ted Lasso, Television Review, Tessa Coates, The Help, TV review

Women of a certain age showing they can kick ass

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‘The Man Will Burn’ Wonders Whether Burning Man Has Lost Its Roots

August 20, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments art festival, Baker Beach, Black Rock City, Burning Man, Burning Man Project, counterculture, documentary, festival culture, HBO, HBO Max, Jehane Noujaim, Kimbal Musk, Marian Goodell, Nevada, San Francisco, Television Review, The Man Will Burn, Tribeca Festival, Vikram Gandhi

The iconic desert festival grows up, can it survive a decade of mainstream wealth?

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How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Burned Down ‘The Welcome Table’

August 6, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments activism, climate change, climate crisis, climate migration, climate refugees, Copernicus, documentary, environment, Europe, France, Gasland, global warming, Greece, HBO, HBO Max, Indigenous communities, Josh Fox, Max, movie review, New Orleans, Nonfiction, Spain, sustainability, The Welcome Table, wildfires

Following climate refugees is one way of showing how climate change is having disastrous effects

Sentenced to ’72 Hours’ With Kevin Hart

August 2, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 72 Hours, bachelor party, Comedy, Dumb and Dumber, Gen Z, Jackass, Kevin Hart, Marcello Hernández, Mason Gooding, Miami, Millennials, movie review, Netflix, Netflix original, Old School, Porky's, Rotten Tomatoes, Saturday Night Live, Step Brothers, streaming movies, Teyana Taylor, The Hangover, Tim Story, Tina Fey, workplace comedy

‘The Hangover’ without the manic escalation meets ‘Old School’ without the affection

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Calling all Byrd Watchers

July 7, 2026July 9, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments AIDS crisis, Annie Sprinkle, Bang My Box The Robin Byrd Story, Channel J, creator economy, documentary, free speech, gay rights, HBO, Jyllian Gunther, LGBTQ history, LGBTQ+, Max, New York City, public access television, public access TV, Reagan era, Robin Byrd, Sarah Jessica Parker, sex positivity, Shelly Byrd, social media, Stephanie Schwam, Television, transgender visibility, TV documentary

A Sarah Jessica Parker production portrays the sex-positive influencer who preceded social media

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America at 250 Is a Clash of ‘Taxi Driver’ vs ‘All the President’s Men’

July 3, 2026July 9, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 1970s cinema, 1976 films, Alan J. Pakula, algorithms, alienation, All the President's Men, America at 250, American cinema, American politics, antihero, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, cultural criticism, democracy, Dustin Hoffman, Fight Club, film criticism, Hollywood, institutions, Journalism, local journalism, loneliness, loneliness epidemic, manosphere, Martin Scorsese, media consolidation, media trust, movies, news media, newspapers, Paul Schrader, political films, Richard Nixon, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, social media, Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle, Washington Post, Watergate

Travis Bickle is wiping the floor with Woodward and Bernstein

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Flip Your Wig for ‘Amadeus’

July 1, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 18th century Vienna, adaptation, Amadeus, Antonio Salieri, biographical drama, Black Doves, Bridgerton, classical music, Constanze Mozart, Gabrielle Creevy, Historical drama, Joe Barton, miniseries, Opera, Oscar-winning film, Paul Bettany, period drama, Peter Shaffer, STARZ, Television, The Crown, TV review, Will Sharpe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Starz has an entirely new take on Peter Shaffer’s composer rivalry

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‘Gang War: Bandidos’ Paints a Portrait of Danish Bikers at War

June 19, 2026June 29, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments

What happens when a country wants to outlaw a group of brothers?

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I Wish ‘Rooster’ Would Never End

May 17, 2026May 20, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 2026 television, academic satire, Bill Lawrence, Charly Clive, college comedy, comedy series, creative writing, Danielle Deadwyler, dramedy, Family Drama, HBO comedy, HBO Max, John C. McGinley, Matt Tarses, modern relationships, Phil Dunster, Rooster, Scrubs, Steve Carell, Television, TV creators, TV review, workplace comedy, writer protagonists, writer’s life

Steve Carell and Bill Lawrence are my dream team

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‘IF’: Imaginary Friends and Real Ryan Reynoldses

April 19, 2026April 19, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments

John Krasinski’s 2024 bomb hits Netflix and explodes into life

‘City Wide Fever’ Is a Love Letter to Giallo

April 16, 2026April 16, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments Alamo Drafthouse, analog film, arthouse cinema, auteur cinema, City Wide Fever, cult film, Dario Argento, Diletta Guglielmi, experimental film, film review, giallo, giallo films, horror movies, Ian Fidance, independent film, Indie Horror, Italian horror, Josh Heaps, Mario Bava, midnight movie, surreal cinema

A unique homage to Italian horror hits theater screens

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Taylor Tomlinson Looks for Faith and Punchlines in ‘Prodigal Daughter’

April 5, 2026April 8, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments after midnight, Bill Hicks, Christianity, comedy specials 2026, Doug Stanhope, Fountain Street Church, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Carlin, Grand Rapids Michigan, Netflix, Parfyon Rogozhin, Prince Myshkin, Prodigal Daughter, religion and comedy, religious satire, Stand Up Comedy, Taylor Tomlinson, The Idiot

In an age of disaster, maybe comedy and religion can collaborate on community

Won’t You Be My ‘Neighbors’

March 26, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments

Has America really come to this?

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Guys Like Us, Baby We Were ‘Born to Bowl’

March 25, 2026March 30, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments A24, A24 television, Americana, Anthony Simonsen, Ben Stiller, blue collar America, Born to Bowl, bowling, Brian Lazarte, Cameron Crowe (bowler), Chicago, documentary series, E.J. Tackett, Hard Knocks, HBO, HBO documentaries, James Lee Hernandez, Jason Belmonte, Kyle Troup, Liev Schreiber, McMillion$, niche sports, professional bowling, Red Hour Films, sports documentary, underdog sports, White Sox, working class stories

A Ben Stiller produced documentary series follows a bunch of pro-bowlers

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