Book and Film Globe

Get Ready to Battle the ‘Beasts of Prey’

September 28, 2021September 29, 2021 Sharyn Vane 1 Comment Ayana Gray, Beasts of Prey, Oprah

The thrilling and eagerly-awaited first installment of an Africa-set YA fantasy trilogy has arrived

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

September 27, 2021September 29, 2021 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments Benedetta, Dario Argento, Denzel Washington, Drive My Car, Frances McDormand, Gaspar Noé, Haruki Murakami, Joel Coen, Kathryn Hunter, Lincoln Center, New York Film Festival, Radu Jude, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Titane, Vortex

The New York Film Festival Returns…and Expands

FICTION

It’s a Struggle to Get Through the New Karl Ove Knausgaard Novel

September 27, 2021September 30, 2021 Elaine Margolin 1 Comment Karl Ove Knausgaard, Linda Bostrom, My Struggle, The Morning Star, The October Child

Bring back that first-person narrator

FILM

The Lies of Tammy Faye

September 24, 2021September 27, 2021 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones, Jessica Chastain, Jim Bakker, Michael Showalter, RuPaul, Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Vincent D'Onofrio

Biopic offers a reductive look at a complicated icon

DOCUMENTARY FILM

The Documentaries of TIFF

September 23, 2021 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Alanis Morrisette, Attica, Belfast, Bill Simmons, Burning, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Eva Orner, Jimmy Chin, Kenneth Branagh, Kenny G, rescue, Stanley Nelson, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival

Almost always Toronto’s strongest suit, this year’s docs flex again

FILM

MovieBloc and the Strange New World of Crypto-Films

September 23, 2021October 4, 2021 William Schwartz 0 Comments blockchain, cryptocurrency, Kang Yeonkyung, Moviebloc, Paypal, South Korea

Will Blockchain bring a new audience to global short films, or is it just a trend?

COMICS FILM TELEVISION

A Multiplicity of Multiverses

September 22, 2021September 29, 2021 Samuel Porteous 0 Comments Batman, Battleworld, Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC, Fantastic Four, Hugh Everett, Into The Spider-Verse, Justice League of America, Kingdom Come, Loki, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, multiverse, Owlman, Secret Wars, Superman, The Flash, What If?

How we arrived at our current inter-dimensional film and TV reality

CREATORS Writers

The Last Laugh of S.J. Perelman

September 21, 2021September 27, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Adam Gopnik, Marx Brothers, Nathaniel West, S.J. Perelman, The Day of the Locust, The New Republic

An iconoclast whose only rule was to be funny joins the Library of America

TELEVISION

‘Clickbait’ Is Overphished

September 21, 2021October 7, 2021 Adam Hirschfelder 0 Comments Adrian Grenier, Afterschool Special, Clickbait

The trouble with making the Internet the villain of your TV show

Book and Film Globe Podcasts Podcasts

BFG Podcast #021: ‘Dune,’ ‘Dear Evan Hansen,’ ‘Y: The Last Man,’ and More!

September 21, 2021September 28, 2021 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments amandla stenberg, Ben Platt, Dear Evan Hansen, Denis Villenueve, Dune, Kaitlyn Dever, Y: The Last Man

Our editor and writers bust open the week in culture

Politics

Bonfire of the Canadians

September 20, 2021September 28, 2021 Jamie Mason 0 Comments Asterix, book burning, Canada, Catholic Church, First Nations, Giller Prize, Justin Trudeau

On Election Day, racist old Asterix comics burn

FICTION NON-FICTION Politics

Classrooms Gone Wild

September 20, 2021September 23, 2021 Sharyn Vane 4 Comments A Big Mooncake for Little Star, Ashley Hope Perez, Erika Sanchez, Forget the Alamo, Ibram X. Kendi, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy, Leander ISD, Tiffany Jewell

The push to control what your kids read and write is intensifying nationwide

FILM

Misdeal

September 17, 2021 Neal Pollack 1 Comment First Reformed, Oscar Isaac, Paul Schrader, The Card Counter, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan

‘The Card Counter’: Paul Schrader’s uneasy mix of torture porn and poker melodrama

TELEVISION

The Day the Menfolk Died

September 16, 2021September 22, 2021 Scott Gold 0 Comments Amber Tamblyn, Ashley Romans, Ben Schnetzer, Diane Lane, Marin Ireland, Olivia Thirlby, Y: The Last Man

After years in production hell, a fiercely beloved comic series, ‘Y: The Last Man,’ finally makes it to television

FILM

‘Maria Chapdelaine’, Post-Racial French-Canadian Heroine?

September 16, 2021September 22, 2021 William Schwartz 0 Comments Alanis Obomsawin, Maria Chapdelaine, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Where Is Anne Frank

Films at this year’s TIFF broaden the discourse