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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

Featured Stories Podcasts

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

Featured Stories Streaming TELEVISION

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

Featured Stories SF Streaming TELEVISION

The Kurtzman Era of Star Trek Boldly Goes Into the Trashcan

July 23, 2026July 28, 2026 William Schwartz 6 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

BOOKS Featured Stories FICTION

Is Maggie O’Farrell’s New Novel ‘Land’ Just Grief Porn?

July 19, 2026July 24, 2026 Katie Smith 0 Comments anti-colonialism, Book Review, British colonialism, British Empire, Canada, Catholic Church, colonialism, family saga, Great Irish Famine, grief, grief literature, Hamnet, Hillary Kelly, historical fiction, Ireland, Irish history, Irish literature, Jessie Buckley, Joan Didion, Knopf, Land, literary fiction, Maggie OFarrell, mapmaking, resilience, The Atlantic, The Year of Magical Thinking

The ‘Hamnet’ author’s charts Ireland’s history

Comedy Featured Stories FILM

‘The Invite’ Prompt Was — Bergman, But Make It Funny!

July 11, 2026July 14, 2026 Laura Pruden 3 Comments Adam Newport-Berra, Cesc Gay, Comedy, Edward Norton, ensemble cast, film review, independent film, Ingmar Bergman, Jade Healy, marriage, middle age, Olivia Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Penelope Cruz, play adaptation, Rashida Jones, relationship comedy, romantic comedy, Seth Rogen, sex comedy, Spanish cinema, The Invite, The People Upstairs, Will McCormack

Olivia Wilde directs and acts in a comedy about love and marriage in middle-age

Featured Stories FILM

Traumatized Young Woman?

July 10, 2026July 14, 2026 Neal Pollack 1 Comment Book and Film Globe, comic book movies, CW Supergirl, DC Comics, DC Studios, DC Universe, Fantasy, film review, Gal Gadot, graphic novels, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Helen Slater, James Gunn, Justice League Unlimited, Kara Zor-El, Krypton, Melissa Benoist, Milly Alcock, Patty Jenkins, science fiction, Supergirl, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, superhero movies, Superman, women superheroes, Wonder Woman

‘Supergirl’ disappoints in all the key ways

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

BOOKS Featured Stories

The Long, Poisonous Roots of Conspiracy Theories

July 8, 2026July 10, 2026 Gordon Haber 0 Comments Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, anti-vaxxers, Book and Film Globe, Book Review, CIA, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theory, Deep State, disinformation, fake news, Franz Neumann, Girolamo Savonarola, Great Replacement, Hannah Arendt, history, Intellectual History, John F. Kennedy assassination, Joseph McCarthy, Karl Popper, Marxism, Maurice Joly, misinformation, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nonfiction, OSS, philosophy, Pizzagate, political history, politics, Princeton University Press, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, psychology, QAnon, Richard Hofstadter, Stop the Steal, The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory, The Prince, Watergate

In his ‘Hidden History’ Andrew McKenzie-McHarg goes back to Machiavelli and wide to ‘Yankees and Cowboys’

Featured Stories Streaming TELEVISION

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

Comedy Featured Stories FILM

Minions and Monsters With Movies and Mayhem

July 4, 2026July 9, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Allison Janney, animated film, animation, Bobby Moynihan, Book and Film Globe, Brian Lynch, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Christoph Waltz, Comedy, Cthulhu, Despicable Me, family film, film review, George Lucas, H.P. Lovecraft, Harold Lloyd, Hollywood, Illumination, Jeff Bridges, Jesse Eisenberg, Minions, Minions and Monsters, Modern Times, movies, Phil LaMarr, Pierre Coffin, Safety Last, silent films, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Blob, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Trey Parker, Universal Pictures, Zoey Deutch

Is this the nail in the Pierre Coffin series?

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