Stephen Garrett, Author at Book and Film Globe

Firestarter

We Didn’t Start This ‘Firestarter’

May 15, 2022May 19, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Firestarter, Gloria Reuben, John Beasley, Kurtwood Smith, Michael Greyeyes, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Stephen King, Sydney Lemmon, Zac Efron

The IP was burning while the world was turning

Multiverse of Madness

Strangely Comforting

May 5, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Wong, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dr. Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness, Elizabeth Olsen, Michael Stuhlbarg, Rachel McAdams, Sam Raimi, Xochitl Gomez

‘Multiverse of Madness’ brings(mostly) family-friendly horror to the MCU

Like Water For Old Franchises

May 5, 2022May 9, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Avatar, Ben Stiller, James Cameron, Sam Worthington, The Way of Water, Zoë Saldana

The ‘Avatar 2’ trailer raises the question: does anyone actually care about Avatar?

The Northman

The Great White ‘Northman’

April 22, 2022April 27, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Alexander Skarsgard, Anya Taylor-Joy, Bjork, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman, Robert Eggers, The Northman, Willem Dafoe

Immerse yourself in Robert Eggers’s blood-drenched, metal Viking Hamlet

Dumbledore

What Else Can We Say? Dumbeldore is Gay

April 15, 2022April 29, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Eddie Redmayne, Fantastic Beasts, Harry Potter, Jude Law, Mads Mikkelsen, The Secrets of Dumbledore

Another ‘Fantastic Beasts,’ not so fantastic

Ambulance

Bayhem

April 8, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Ambulance, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Bay, Yahya Adbul-Mateen II

‘Ambulance,’ the latest adrenaline shot from Michael Bay, America’s broheim auteur

Morbius

Bloodless

April 1, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Adria Arjona, Al Madrigal, Jared Harris, Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Morbius, Spider-Man, Tyrese Gibson

‘Morbius’ is moribund

The Lost City

Lost Opportunity

March 25, 2022April 3, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Brad Pitt, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Sandra Bullock, The Lost City

Glamorous adventure-comedy throwback ‘The Lost City’ loses steam

deep water

‘Deep’ Doo-Doo

March 19, 2022March 21, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Adrian Lyne, Ana de Armas, Ben Affleck, Deep Water

Adrian Lyne fails to revive the erotic thriller

The Adam Project

Bunk to the Future

March 16, 2022April 3, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Catherine Keener, Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Ryan Reynolds, Shawn Levy, The Adam Project, Zoë Saldana

‘The Adam Project’, a dopey time-travel movie from Ryan Reynolds

The Batman

The Darkest Knight

March 4, 2022April 3, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Frank Gorshin, Jeffrey Wright, Jim Carrey, Matt Reeves, Paul Dano, Robert Pattison, The Batman, The Riddler, Zoe Kravitz

Batman, again

Cyrano

The Singing ‘Cyrano’

February 28, 2022April 3, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Cyrano, Haley Bennett, Joe Wright, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Peter Dinklage

Joe Wright and Peter Dinklage’s enthusiastic rendition of a classic story is slightly out of tune

Uncharted

Who ‘Uncharted’?

February 18, 2022February 23, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Antonio Banderas, Mark Wahlberg, Playstation, Ruben Fleischer, Sophia Ali, Tati Gabrielle, Tom Holland, Uncharted

Tom Holland’s botched video-game adventure

A River in Egypt

February 13, 2022February 15, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Annette Bening, Armie Hammer, Death on the Nile, Emma Mackey, Gal Gadot, Kenneth Branagh, Letitia Wright, Russell Brand, Sophie Kendo

Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot is back, with a broken heart

Sundance

Sundance: The Final Tally

February 2, 2022February 4, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments A Love Song, Bill Cosby, Bill Nighy, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Cooper Raiff, Dakota Johnson, Dale Dickey, Navalny, Rebecca Hall, Tig Notaro, Tim Roth, W. Kamau Bell, Wes Studi

Scenes from an online indie film festival

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