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Women Talking

Straight ‘Women Talking’

January 24, 2023January 27, 2023 Susie Bright 0 Comments Ben Whishaw, I Spit On Your Grave, Miriam Toews, Rooney Mara, Sarah Polley, Women Talking

Sarah Polley’s beautiful film about the Bolivia Mennonite rape scandal pulls some of its punches

Critical Mass

Critical Mess

January 24, 2023January 25, 2023 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Critical Mass, Daniel Suarez, Delta-v

Provocative science can’t rescue clunky sci-fi novel by Daniel Suarez

That 90s show

Old Sitcoms Never Die

January 23, 2023January 26, 2023 Neal Pollack 2 Comments Ashton Kutcher, Debra Jo Rupp, John Laroquette, Kurtwood Smith, Melissa Rauch, Mila Kunis, Night Court, That 70s Show, That 90s Show, Topher Grace

The odd returns of ‘Night Court’ and ‘That 70s Show’

Meyer

Gaming TELEVISION

(Almost) Clash of the Trivia Titans

January 23, 2023January 31, 2023 Daniel Cohen 0 Comments Jeopardy!, Troy Meyer, Yogesh Raut

Jeopardy! fans just missed out on a regular-season game for the ages

Sundance is Alive!

January 23, 2023January 31, 2023 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Alden Ehrenreich, Anne Hathaway, Brett Kavanaugh, Cassandro, Cat Person, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Doug Liman, Eileen, Emilia Clarke, Fair Play, Gael García Bernal, Michael J Fox, Ottessa Moshfegh, Susanna Fogel, The Pod Generation, Thomas McKenzie, William Oldroyd

Indie cinema returns, ready for the sniffling crowd

Maybe This Is The Year Popular Movies Win Oscars Again

January 20, 2023January 24, 2023 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments 1917, Academy Awards, Avatar The Way of Water, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, E.T., Gladiator, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Top Gun Maverick, Wakanda Forever

Won’t the Academy think of the people who only see one or two movies a year?

The Price of Glee

What Price Glee?

January 19, 2023January 23, 2023 William Schwartz 0 Comments Cory Monteith, Glee, Mark Sulling, Naya Rivera, The Price of Glee

Discovery+ documentary about “cursed” TV show should be salacious but is surprisingly vague

Skinamarink

Who’s Afraid of ‘Skinamarink’?

January 18, 2023January 24, 2023 Jonpaul Henry Guinn 2 Comments David Lynch, Kyle Edward Ball, Skinamarink, The Blair Witch Project

Slow-moving, experimental horror film is like ‘The Blair Witch Project’ crossed with David Lynch’s ‘Inland Empire’

Life on Delay

Does He Stutter?

January 18, 2023January 20, 2023 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Joe Biden, John Hendrickson, Life On Delay

In his memoir ‘Life On Delay,’ John Hendrickson beautifully gives voice to the struggles that all stutterers face

The Last of Us

At Long Last

January 17, 2023January 23, 2023 Omar Gallaga 0 Comments Anna Torv, Bella Ramsey, Chernobyl, Craig Malin, Pedro Pascal, Station Eleven, The Last of Us

With The Last of Us, HBO leapfrogs all the usual video-game adaptation pitfalls

House Party

Party Off

January 17, 2023January 18, 2023 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Atlanta, Charles Burnett, Jacob Latimore, Jamal Olori, Jordan Peele, Kid Cudi, Kid N Play, LeBron James. House Party, Lena Waithe, Sorry To Bother You, Spike Lee, Stephen Glover, Tosin Cole

‘House Party’ reboot lacks imagination and relevance

Velma

The Living Hell of ‘Velma’

January 17, 2023January 20, 2023 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Charlie Grandy, Constance Wu, Glenn Howerton, Mindy Kaling, Sam Richardson, Velma

Zoinks! Mindy Kaling’s dark Scooby-Doo universe take is a joyless dog

Book and Film Globe Podcasts

BFG Podcast #087: Russell Banks, Aubrey Plaza, and ‘The Rig’

January 16, 2023January 17, 2023 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Affliction, Aubrey Plaza, David MacPherson, Emily The Criminal, Russell Banks, The Rig, The Sweet Hereafter

Our editor and writers break down the culture

A Man Called Otto

‘Otto,’ Not Very Erotic

January 16, 2023January 23, 2023 Neal Pollack 2 Comments A Man Called Otto, A Man Called Ove, Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks stars in a genial weeper about the ties that bind

Hearts of Darkness

Famous Film Fiascos Before ‘Megalopolis’

January 16, 2023January 19, 2023 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments Apocalypse Now, Fitzcarraldo, Francis Ford Coppola, Hearts of Darkness, Klaus Kinski, Megalopolis, Richard Stanley, Roar, Terry Gilliam, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Tippi Hedren, Werner Herzog

As reports come in about “chaos” on the set of Francis Ford Coppola’s new film, here are some other legendary Hollywood fiascos, including four that Coppola didn’t direct