William Schwartz, Author at Book and Film Globe

BOOKS CLASSICS FILM

What Was Alfred Hitchcock’s Secret?

November 6, 2026November 8, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments Academy Awards, acting and performance, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock biography, Alfred Hitchcock movies, auteur cinema, auteur theory, book reviews, Cary Grant, casting directors, cinema history, cinematic suspense, classic cinema, classic Hollywood, Family Plot, Film Adaptations, film analysis, film books, film casting, film criticism, film history, film studies, filmmaking techniques, Francois Truffaut, Golden Age of Hollywood, Hitchcock and Truffaut, Hitchcock casting, Hitchcock films, Hitchcock Truffaut interviews, Hollywood casting, hollywood history, Hollywood stardom, James Stewart, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Fontaine, movie stars, Nat Segaloff, nonfiction books, North By Northwest, psychological thrillers, Rope, screen charisma, star power, suspense films, Suspicion, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Secret Hitchcock, The Short Night, thriller movies, university press of kentucky, Vertigo, World War II

New book argues that the famed director’s casting is given short shrift

BOOKS Graphic novels

‘Hotel & Farm’ Is Half Hotel, Half Farm, All Nonsense

November 3, 2026November 3, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments absurdist fiction, absurdist humor, agriculture, alternative comics, Ben Katchor, book reviews, bureaucracy, comic books, comic strips, comics, consumer culture, contemporary comics, cultural satire, deadpan humor, encyclopedic fiction, experimental comics, experimental storytelling, farming, food culture, fragmented narratives, fruit criticism, Gilbert Silo, graphic novel criticism, graphic novel reviews, graphic novels, Hotel & Farm, hotel culture, illustrated fiction, Jug Oar, literary comics, literary experimentation, new graphic novels, newspaper comics, non sequiturs, nonsensical humor, Pantheon Books, rural life, Seemor Hotel, sequential art, social satire, surreal humor, surrealist comics, unconventional narratives, urban life, visual satire, visual storytelling, worldbuilding, Yalos Finger

New graphic novel from Ben Katchor provides a powerful test of patience

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‘The Knights of Guinevere’ Takes Us Into the Backrooms of Not-Quite-Disney

October 19, 2026October 22, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments adult animation, Andi, androids, animated series, animation review, artificial intelligence, body horror, Caine, corporate dystopia, corporate satire, Dana Terrace, digital culture, Disney, Disney Channel, Disney satire, dystopian fiction, existential horror, fan theories, fandom culture, Frankie, Glitch Productions, Glitch Studios, Guinevere, independent animation, indie animation, Knights of Guinevere, online fandoms, Park Planet, psychological horror, queer representation, robotics, science fiction, Stolen Kingdom, streaming animation, surveillance state, The Amazing Digital Circus, The Owl House, theme parks, YouTube animation

Glitch Studios brings a new nightmare drip for the kids

‘Defying Tyrants’ Asks What is Christian Nationalism Anyway?

October 8, 2026October 7, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments #MAGA, anti-Caesar, antichrist, antichrists, Broadleaf Books, Christian history, Christian nationalism, Christianity, church and state, Constantine, Defying Tyrants, Donald Trump, Jesus, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Matthew D. Taylor, politics, religion, Roman Empire, theology

Matthew D. Taylor’s new book blames the antichrists (sic)

DOCUMENTARY FILM

‘Brailled It’ Shows the Unusual Possibilities of Blind Filmmaking

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments accessibility, blind students, blindness, Braille, Braille Challenge, Brailled It, Brendan Schulze, Christopher Morgan, coming of age, David Grabias, disability, documentary, documentary film, education, film review, independent film, Isaiah Gauthier, Salome Cummins, teen documentary

New doc captures the awkwardness of being a blind teenager at the 2024 Braille Challenge

Witnessing North Korea

September 10, 2026 William Schwartz 2 Comments Arduous March, Bloomsbury Academic, Book Review, Caritas, diplomacy, East Asia, geopolitics, humanitarian aid, international aid, Jerome Sauvage, Kaesong Industrial Region, Kathi Zellweger, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, memoir, Mike Chinoy, Miss Kathi, North Korea, North Korea books, North Korea famine, Paul French, Post Hill Press, sanctions, South Korea, Witness to North Korea

Two new books offer firsthand explanations for how we got to this point

CLASSICS Featured Stories FILM

Maybe You Can Go Home Again, Samba Traore

August 27, 2026August 30, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments 4K restoration, Abdoulaye Komboudri, African cinema, art house cinema, Bakary Sangaré, Berlin International Film Festival, Burkina Faso, Crime Drama, Film at Lincoln Center, film restoration, film review, foreign language film, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Irène Tassembedo, Mariam Kaba, Moumouni Campaoré, Samba Traore, Silver Bear, world cinema

Rerelease of Silver Bear winner is an optimistic blast from art house cinema past

DOCUMENTARY FILM

Remember SNL’s Pat?

August 21, 2026August 22, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments androgyny, Christopher Walken, Comedy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, documentary, gender identity, It's Pat!, Julia Sweeney, Larry David, Matt Foley, nonbinary, Pat, Peacock, Rowan Haber, Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld, sketch comedy, SNL, Toonces, transgender, We Are Pat

New documentary argues Julia Sweeney’s character was inspiring — and maybe bigoted

Featured Stories Streaming TELEVISION

In a Vigilante Tale, ‘Furious’ Has No Perfect Victims

August 17, 2026August 23, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments Crime Drama, Elizabeth Meriwether, Emmy Rossum, FBI, Furious, Hulu, Jake Lacy, Lola Petticrew, Medusa, mythology, Promising Young Woman, psychological horror, psychological thriller, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Scott McNairy, Serial Killer, sex trafficking, sex work, Steve Way, Streaming Television, TV review, vigilante

Hulu describes this Epstein-adjacent mythic psychological horror as a crime drama

BUSINESS Featured Stories FILM

Kevin Sorbo Lost Hollywood. Kelsey Grammer Learned How to Beat It.

July 28, 2026August 1, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments Angel Studios, anti-woke, Athena, Avengers Doomsday, Ben Shapiro, box office, cancel culture, celebrities, Christian films, Christopher Nolan, conservative media, Donald Trump, Eden's Choice, Elon Musk, faith-based films, film industry, Fox News, Hercules The Legendary Journeys, Hollywood, JC Films, Jesus Revolution, Kelsey Grammer, Kevin Sorbo, Lucy Lawless, movie criticism, Night at the Museum of the Bible, Pickleball Pete, Supergirl, Tea Party, The Marvels, The Odyssey, Xena, Young Washington, Zendaya

Two conservative actors took very different paths after falling out of the Hollywood consensus

Featured Stories SF Streaming TELEVISION

The Kurtzman Era of Star Trek Boldly Goes Into the Trashcan

July 23, 2026July 28, 2026 William Schwartz 8 Comments Alex Kurtzman, Captain Kirk, Captain Pike, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, episodic television, fandom, franchise filmmaking, Jeri Ryan, Klingons, media criticism, Michael Burnham, Mirror Universe, Paramount, Paramount Pictures, Patrick Stewart, Robert Picardo, science fiction, Section 31, serial storytelling, Spock, Star Trek, Star Trek Picard, Star Trek Prodigy, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Starfleet Academy, Streaming Television, Television, The Next Generation, TV criticism, Voyager, William Shatner

How to understand the demise of NuTrek

Featured Stories FILM

‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ With the Revolutionary Guard

July 8, 2026July 10, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments

Azar Nafisi’s memoir finally hits the big screen

Streaming TELEVISION

‘Star City’ Depicts the Space Race as Run by the Evil Empire

July 2, 2026July 2, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments Agnes O'Casey, alternate history, Anna Maxwell Martin, Apple TV, Chernobyl, Cold War, For All Mankind, Joe Barton, KGB, Leonid Brezhnev, NASA, Rhys Ifans, Richard Nixon, science fiction, Sergei Korolev, Soviet Union, space exploration, space race, spy thriller, Star City, Television, TV review, Venera program, Venus mission, Yuri Gagarin

‘For All Mankind’ Gets the ‘Chernobyl’ Treatment

BOOKS Featured Stories

The Cruelty of Nice Minnesota Folks

June 26, 2026July 1, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments African American history, American history, American politics, autoethnography, Black Lives Matter, book criticism, Book Review, civil rights, contemporary nonfiction, George Floyd, George Floyd protests, Harper, health care inequality, housing discrimination, Hubert Humphrey, Justin Ellis, Ku Klux Klan, memoir, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota Nice, nonfiction books, police brutality, political history, public policy, race relations, redlining, segregation, social commentary, social justice, structural racism, systemic racism, The Atlantic, The Cruelty of Nice Folks, The Great Migration, Tim Walz, U.S. history, urban history

Justin Ellis explains why Minneapolis was America’s raw racial nerve

DOCUMENTARY Featured Stories FILM

E. Jean Carroll Tells Her Story

June 23, 2026June 29, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments #metoo, 2026 films, advice columnists, American culture, Ask E. Jean, cable television, contemporary politics, court cases, documentary films, documentary review, Donald Trump, E. Jean Carroll, Elle magazine, feminism, film criticism, gonzo journalism, Ivy Meeropol, media criticism, nonfiction film, political documentaries, Roger Ailes, sexual assault, sexual harassment, television history, Trump era, women and media, women's rights

‘Ask E. Jean’ prompts questions it doesn’t answer

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