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Forget the Alamo

‘Forget the Alamo’ Rewrites the Texas Myth

June 16, 2021June 22, 2021 Neal Pollack 1 Comment Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Davy Crockett, Donald Trump, Forget the Alamo, Jason Stanford, Jim Bowie, Phil Collins, Tom Hanks, Walt Disney, William Travis

An entertaining deconstruction of the ‘Heroic Anglo Narrative’

Ned Beatty

The Best of Ned Beatty

June 16, 2021June 17, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Back to School, Burt Reynolds, Deliverance, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Network, Paddy Chayefsky, Rango, Superman, White Lightning

Remembering one of the great character actors, who died Sunday at age 83

Heights

Nine Musicals to Watch if You Loved ‘In The Heights’

June 15, 2021 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments Black Orpheus, Coco, Esther Williams, Fiddler On The Roof, Fred Astaire, Frida Kahlo, Hamilton, In The Heights, Jon M. Chu, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Million Dollar Mermaid, Moana, Royal Wedding, Stanley Donen, Step Up 2, Step Up 3D

From Fred Astaire and Esther Williams to ‘Step Up 3D’

Aliens

The Truth is Up There

June 15, 2021June 18, 2021 Samuel Porteous 4 Comments 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, Aliens, Brother John, Contact, Independence Day: Resurgence, Mars Attacks, UFOs, War of the Worlds

With the FBI UFO report coming June 25, we assess our cinematic encounters with aliens

Superhero families

COMICS FILM TELEVISION

This is Super Us

June 14, 2021June 21, 2021 Neal Pollack 1 Comment Batman, Fantastic Four, Invincible, Josh Duhamel, Jupiter's Legacy, Sky High, Spider-Man, superhero, Superman, Superman Returns, The Boys, WandaVision

What’s with all the superhero family drama?

Jean Smart

The Many Faces of Jean Smart

June 14, 2021June 17, 2021 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments Designing Women, Fargo, Garden State, Hacks, Jean Smart, Mare of Easttown, Michael McKean, Nathan Lane, Overkill, The Brady Bunch Movie, The Man Who Came To Dinner, The Oblongs, Watchmen, Youth In Revolt

‘Designing Women,’ an extraordinary recent run on HBO, and a significant body of work in between

Burnham

Book and Film Globe Podcasts

BFG Podcast #008: ‘Sex and Vanity,’ ‘In The Heights,’ ‘Feel Good,’ Bo Burnham, and More!

June 13, 2021June 15, 2021 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Bo Burnham, Feed Good, In The Heights, Inside, Jamie Mason, Kevin Kwan, Neal Pollack, Paula Shaffer, Rob Kutner, Sex and Vanity, Stephen Garrett

Our editor and writers break down the week in culture

In the Heights

‘In The Heights’ is the Song of the Summer

June 11, 2021June 11, 2021 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Aidy Bryant, In The Heights, Jimmy Smits, John M. Chu, Leslie Grace, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Melissa Barrera

Partying and dreaming on the block

FICTION Young Adult

Literary World Reacts to Publishers’ Striking Questionable Lines

June 11, 2021June 16, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments

They pulled ‘offensive’ dialogue from authors Elin Hilderbrand’s and Casey McQuiston’s best-sellers

Sweet Tooth

He was an Antler Boy

June 10, 2021June 21, 2021 G.L. Ford 0 Comments Adeel Akhtar, Christian Convery, Jeff Lemire, Josh Brolin, Sweet Tooth, Will Forte

Beware ‘Sweet Tooth’, Netflix’s hit YA-grade plague-porn series

Gremlins

Gremlins and Blade Runner: The Animated Series

June 10, 2021June 15, 2021 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments B.D. Wong, Benjamin Ree, Black Louts, Blade Runner, Gizmo, Gremlins, Howie Mandel, Joe Dante, Matthew Rhys, Neil Gaiman, Patton Oswalt, Philip K. Dick, Robert Downey Jr., Sandman, Secrets of the Mogwai, Shinichiro Watanabe, Tze Chun

No franchise is safe from an extended cartoon reboot

Bo Burnham

Bo Burnham Haz a Sad

June 9, 2021June 21, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Beck, Bo Burnham, Daniel Levy, Inside, Jimmy Kimmel, Kurt Weill, Lorene Scafaria

‘Inside,’ a mournful one-man interior apocalypse

Sex and Vanity

‘Sex and Vanity’ Made Me Feel Poor and Gross

June 9, 2021June 14, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments A Room With A View, Call Me By Your Name, Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan, Sex and Vanity

Call me by your name-drop

Feel Good

The ‘Feel Good’ Show of the Summer

June 9, 2021June 11, 2021 Jamie Mason 0 Comments Fawlty Towers, Feel Good, John Cleese, Lisa Kudrow, Mae Martin, Sophie Thompson

An underappreciated girl meets girl romance calls to mind the classics of British comedy

Desert Island

Beware the Desert Island Movie List

June 8, 2021June 10, 2021 Bill Thomas 0 Comments Amelie, Desert Island, Ghost In The Shell, GoodFellas, Life of Brian, Lost in Translation, Reservoir Dogs, Robocop, The Seven Samurai, The Shining

Don’t put ‘Amelie’ on that online survey unless you want to watch it forever.