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BFG Podcast #314: Lanterns, Coyotes, Acme Discussions

September 3, 2026September 3, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Aaron Pierre, animation, comic books, Coyote Vs. Acme, DC Comics, DC Studios, Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, HBO, HBO Max, James Gunn, John Stewart, Kyle Chandler, Lanterns, live action, Looney Tunes, Neal Pollack, Nick Tangborn, Podcast, Pop Culture, Rob Kutner, Sam Porteous, Sea of Reeds Media, superheroes, The Big Bang Theory, TV podcast, TV review, Warner Bros., Wile E. Coyote

Neal and Rob unpack private equity and falling anvils; Neal and Nick pick over HBO’s new superhero series

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Ridley Scott Is Back, Flying By the Light of ‘The Dog Stars’

August 28, 2026August 31, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments 20th Century Studios, Allison Janney, Benedict Wong, dystopian film, film review, Guy Pearce, Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin, Margaret Qualley, Mark L. Smith, Peter Heller, post-apocalyptic, Ridley Scott, Sai Bennett, science fiction, survival thriller, The Dog Stars, virus pandemic

Prepper madness meets introspection as Jacob Elordi and Josh Brolin chum up the post-apocalypse

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 Featured Stories FILM

40 Years On, UConn’s Geno Auriemma is Still Butting Heads… and Winning

August 26, 2026August 30, 2026 Jon Hart 0 Comments Apple TV, basketball, Dawn Staley, Diana Taurasi, documentary, Erica Sashin, Geno Auriemma, Matthew Hamachek, NCAA basketball, Paige Bueckers, Pat Summitt, Rebecca Lobo, Sarah Strong, sports documentary, Television Review, The Dynasty: UConn Huskies, UConn, UConn Huskies, women's basketball

In ‘Dynasty,’ Apple covers his remarkable, often tumultuous career

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BFG Podcast #313: Dinosaurs in Suburbia, 24 Hours of Romance, and a Summer of Growing Up

August 25, 2026August 25, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Anthony Bourdain, film criticism, movie podcast, Neal Pollack, Podcast, Pop Culture, Sea of Reeds Media, Stephen Garrett, Tony

Neal, Stephen and Laura discuss summer movies about food, horror, and romance

Featured Stories Streaming TELEVISION

Is ‘Badly in Love’ Terrible Television or Brilliant Satire?

August 19, 2026August 23, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Awich, Badly in Love, Badly in Love Season 2, dating reality show, dating show, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese television, Love, MEGUMI, Nagano, Netflix, Okinawa, reality television, Reality TV, Romance, Television Review, yakuza, yankii

The Japanese reality dating show throws punks together to teach them romantic love

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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

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Smoking Hot Prudes Rock for ‘One Night Only’

August 9, 2026August 12, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Ben Marshall, Callum Turner, Comedy, dystopian fiction, Julia Fox, King Princess, LeVar Burton, Logan's Run, Maya Hawke, Molly Ringwald, Monica Barbaro, movie review, One Night Only, rom-com, romantic comedy, satire, science fiction, sex comedy, The Purge, Will Gluck

Authoritarian science fiction never looked so sexy

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BFG Podcast #312: Is Spider-Man Any Good? Plus, Summer Dragon Fights for All!

August 7, 2026August 12, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments film criticism, House of Dragon, movie podcast, Neal Pollack, Omar Gallaga, Podcast, Pop Culture, Sea of Reeds Media, Stephen Garrett

Neal, Stephen and Omar call in from all points on the map to debate comic book movies and fantasy series

Anime Featured Stories FILM

‘Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender’ Succeeds in Spite of Its Troubled Release

August 5, 2026August 12, 2026 J. Barnes 0 Comments Aang, animated film, animation, anime, Avatar Aang, Avatar Aang The Last Airbender, Avatar Seven Havens, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Cabbage Merchant, Chong, Fantasy, Flying Bark Productions, movie review, Paramount, Streaming, Studio Mir, Suki, Tagah, Taika Waititi, Team Avatar, Toph, Uncle Iroh, Zuko

After 20 years of animation, the franchise showcases its skills in a feature film

Comedy Featured Stories Streaming TELEVISION

‘The Hawk’ Scores a Triple Bogey

August 2, 2026August 5, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Anchorman, Blades of Glory, Book and Film Globe, Chili's, Comedy, Destin Daniel Cretton, Fortune Feimster, golf, golf comedy, Jimmy Tatro, Luke Wilson, Molly Shannon, Netflix, PGA Tour, Ricky Bobby, sports comedy, Streaming Television, Talladega Nights, Television, The Hawk, TV review, Will Ferrell

The latest Will Ferrell vehicle is a large, empty, golfing bus

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Everything That’s Streaming in August 2026

July 29, 2026August 5, 2026 Jake Harris 0 Comments Alan Ritchson, Apple TV, August 2026, BritBox, Camp Rock, Chris Carter, Conan O'Brien Must Go, Criterion Channel, Criterion Collection, Dark Matter, Disney, Futurama, Green Lantern, HBO Max, Hulu, I Want to Believe, Jason Sudeikis, Lanterns, Lioness, Netflix, Outer Banks, Paramount, Pokémon, Prime Video, Reacher, Shudder, Star Wars Visions, Streaming, Streaming Guide, streaming TV, Taylor Sheridan, Ted Lasso, Television, The Ninth Jedi, The Simpsons, The X-Files, TV preview

Ted Lasso, Pokemon, X-Files, and Zoe Saldana are all back

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

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The Kurtzman Era of Star Trek Boldly Goes Into the Trashcan

July 23, 2026July 28, 2026 William Schwartz 7 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

BUSINESS CLASSICS Featured Stories FILM

Extras: An Obituary

July 22, 2026July 30, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 1 Comment AI, Alex Garland, animatronics, Arab Legion, Avengers: Endgame, background actors, Battle of Aqaba, blockbusters, Book and Film Globe, CGI, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Nolan films, CIvil War, D Day, David Lean, David Lean films, digital crowds, Dunkirk, epic cinema, Extras, film history, film production, Greece, Hollywood, Jordan, King Hussein, King Hussein of Jordan, Lawrence of Arabia, Lawrence of Arabia battle scene, Matt Damon, Messenia, Normandy, Oppenheimer, Peter Jackson, practical effects, puppetry, Ray Mendoza, SAG-AFTRA, Saving Private Ryan, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Steven Spielberg, T.E. Lawrence, Tenet, The Hobbit, The Lord Of The Rings, The Odyssey, union actors, visual effects, William Tecumseh Sherman

AI sounds the death knell for living crowds of people on film

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