Robert Dean, Author at Book and Film Globe

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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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You Won’t Like What You Find ‘Inside the Manosphere’

March 21, 2026March 19, 2026 Robert Dean 4 Comments algorithm economy, barron trump, culture wars, digital identity, documentary film, Donald Trump, ed matthews, gender politics, grifters, homophobia, hstikkytokky, incel culture, influencer economy, inside the manosphere, justin waller, loneliness epidemic, Louis Theroux, manosphere, masculinity crisis, media criticism, modern masculinity, myron gaines, Netflix, Netflix documentary, online influencers, online scams, political radicalization, red pill, self improvement industry, sexism, sneako, social media culture, streaming reviews, toxic masculinity, trump white house, wealth signaling, young men

Louis Theroux dives into the shallow but oh-so broad world that monetizes anxiety through resentment

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The ‘Tournament of Champions’ Is Back for Season Seven

March 10, 2026March 10, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments aarti-sequeira, ashleigh-shanti, celebrity-chefs, chef-battles, claudette-zepeda, cooking-competition, culinary-competition, flavortown, Food Network, food-tv, Guy Fieri, Jet Tila, joe-sasto, jonathon-sawyer, karen-akunowicz, katsuji-tanabe, lorena-garcia, Ming Tsai, nini-nguyen, randomizer, restaurant-chefs, tobias-dorzon, Top Chef, Tournament Of Champions

Do we still feel welcome in Guy Fieri’s flavortown?

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‘Scrubs’ Returns, With Lashings of Millennial Saccharine

March 8, 2026March 10, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 2020s television, Bill Lawrence, Carla Espinosa, classic sitcom revival, comedy drama, comfort television, Donald Faison, Dr Cox, Dr Hooch, Dr Kelso, Elliot Reid, Gen X nostalgia, hospital comedy, Hulu, JD, Joel Kim Booster, John C. McGinley, John Dorian, Judy Reyes, Ken Jenkins, legacy characters, medical sitcom, Millennial nostalgia, new TV interns, nostalgia TV, Reboot, Robert Maschio, Sacred Heart Hospital, Sam Lloyd, Sarah Chalke, Scrubs, Scrubs reboot, streaming TV, Ted Buckland, television reboot, The Todd, Turk, TV revival, workplace comedy, Zach Braff

Donald Faison and Zach Braff return from phone commercials

‘Scream 7’ Proves Nothing in Hollywood Is Allowed to Die

March 2, 2026March 2, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments AI in movies, Courteney Cox, horror movies, Kevin Williamson, Matthew Lillard, Mckenna Grace, Neve Campbell, Scream 7, Scream franchise, slasher films

The latest in the franchise leans into gore and demonizes AI

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Increasingly Familiar and Annoying Things

January 2, 2026January 8, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 1980s Nostalgia, Brett Gelman, Duffer Brothers, Eleven, Genre Television, IP Franchises, Joyce Byers, Linda Hamilton, Netflix, Pop Culture, Series Finale, Stranger Things, Streaming Television, Television Criticism, Vecna

The sad disintegration of the ‘Stranger Things’ franchise is a warning to all audiences

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Diddy Meets the Algorithm

December 17, 2025December 17, 2025 Robert Dean 0 Comments #metoo, 50 Cent, Bad Boy Records, Biggie Smalls, Cassie Ventura, celebrity scandal, Diddy, hip hop accountability, Hollywood accountability, music industry, Netflix documentary, Sean Combs, The Reckoning, true crime, Tupac Shakur

Reckoning exposes decades of allegations — and shows how the machinery that once protected celebrity power is collapsing in real time.

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The Frankenstein-Beatles

December 4, 2025December 7, 2025 Robert Dean 0 Comments Beatlemania, Beatles, Beatles Anthology, Beatles Industrial Complex, Beatles legacy, Disney Plus, George Harrison, IP culture, John Lennon, music documentaries, Paul McCartney, Peter Jackson Get Back, Ringo Starr, Sam Mendes Beatles films

The Fab Four changed the world in eight years. 55 years later, Disney+ repackages its shell for profit

Old Frankenstein

November 2, 2025November 2, 2025 Robert Dean 0 Comments AI allegory, Book and Film Globe, cinematography, film review, Frankenstein, gothic horror, Guillermo del Toro, Mary Shelley, Mia Goth, modern horror, monster movies, Netflix, Oscar Isaac, Pan’s Labyrinth, parenthood, The Shape of Water

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ is a gorgeous, groaning monster

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‘I Like Me’ Reminds Us Why John Candy Still Matters

October 28, 2025October 29, 2025 Robert Dean 0 Comments 2025 films, Bill Murray, Canadian cinema, Catherine O'Hara, Colin Hanks, comedy documentaries, I Like Me, John Candy, Ryan Reynolds, Steve Martin

Colin Hanks’ documentary captures the warmth, humor, and heartbreak of a larger-than-life Canadian

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No Escape, Except Death

October 7, 2025 Robert Dean 0 Comments Back to the Beginning festival, Black Sabbath, celebrity death and legacy, heavy metal history, Jelly Roll, Ozzfest, Ozzy No Escape from Now, Ozzy Osbourne, Paramount Plus, Paramount Plus documentary, Patient Number 9, rock and roll icons, rock documentaries, Sharon Osbourne, Tania Alexander

The new Ozzy Osbourne documentary is a tough watch

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