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Moon Knight

Everything That’s Streaming in March

March 2, 2022March 4, 2022 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments Adam McKay, Adrien Brody, Amanda Seyfriend, Amazon Prime, Ana de Armas, Apple TV, Ben Affleck, Blade Runner: Black Lotus, Bridgerton, Cheaper By The Dozen, Deep Water, Disney, Ethan Hawke, HALO, Hulu, Human Resources, Jason Segel, Jesse Plemons, John C. Reilly, Moon Knight, Netflix, Oscar Isaac, Paramount, Picard, Rosario Dawson, Shonda Rhimes, The Dropout, Turning Red, WeCrashed, Windfall, Winning Time

Content coming in like a lion

The Chase

Book and Film Globe Podcasts

BFG Podcast #037: Norman Mailer, ‘Don’t Look Up,’ and Losing on a Game Show

January 10, 2022June 16, 2022 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Adam McKay, Don't Look Up, James Holzhauer, Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, The Chase

Our editor and writers break down the culture and losing on a game show

Don't Look Up

What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Don’t Look Up’

January 3, 2022April 3, 2022 William Schwartz 1 Comment Adam McKay, Don't Look Up, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Rylance, Meryl Streep

Why do viewers like the Adam McKay movie more than critics do?

Jeremy Strong

Memories of the Jeremy Strong Discourse

December 20, 2021April 3, 2022 Jake Harris 1 Comment Adam McKay, Jeremy Strong, Jessica Chastain, Kieran Culkin, Succession

The final word on this year’s most controversial celebrity profile

Don't Look Up

Don’t Watch This

December 17, 2021 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Adam McKay, Cate Blanchett, Don't Look Up, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet, Tyler Perry

‘Don’t Look Up,’ a disastrous disaster comedy from Adam McKay

Eurovision

‘Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga’

June 26, 2020July 6, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Adam McKay, Dan Stevens, Demi Lovato, Eurovision, Fire Saga, Pierce Brosnan, Rachel McAdams, Will Ferrell

It’s not the actual Eurovision, but the song parodies in this mostly affectionate Will Ferrell satire are close enough

Streaming

FILM Netflix TELEVISION

Is the Streaming Going to Run Dry?

April 15, 2020April 14, 2020 Omar Gallaga 0 Comments Adam McKay, Amazon Prime, Blumhouse, Emma, Jason Blum, Killing Eve, Quibi, SNL At Home, The Invisible Man, Trolls World Tour, Westworld

And what might fill the program gap

Del Close

DOCUMENTARY FILM

The Madness of Del Close

March 15, 2020March 17, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Adam McKay, Bob Odenkirk, Charna Halpern, Del Close, For Madmen Only, Heather Ross, James Urbaniak, Matt Walsh, Tina Fey

Documentary unravels the mystery of the guru of American comedy

DOCUMENTARY FILM

No Safe Spaces for Old Men

January 2, 2020January 3, 2020 Neal Pollack 3 Comments Adam Carolla, Adam McKay, Ann Coulter, Ben Shapiro, Bill Maher, Bret Weinstein, Dennis Prager, No Safe Spaces, Robert Smigel, Van Jones

Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager’s Free-Speech Warning Shot

Marty Vs. Marvel

November 14, 2019April 27, 2022 Ben Schwartz 5 Comments 1927's The Jazz Singer, 1983 Cannes Film Festival, Adam McKay, Apocalypse Now, Billy Wilder, Bringing up Baby, Cameron Crowe, David Carr, David O. Selznick, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Capra, Henry Jaglom, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Ken Loach, Kevin Feige, King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese, Marvel, Marvel movies, Midnight Cowboy, Mike Nichols, Orson Welles, Raganok, Raging Bull, Sergio Leone, Taika Waititi, Taxi Driver, The Avengers, The Godfather, The New Yorker's Richard Brody, The Searchers, The Sopranos, Thor: Ragnarok, X-Rated Best Picture Winner

Old-Fogey Hollywood Directors Have Always Hated the Next Wave

‘The Other Two’: TV’s First Great Millennial Comedy

April 2, 2019April 3, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments 30 Rock, Adam McKay, Case Walker, Chase Dreams, Chris Kelly, Drew Tarver, Heléne Yorke, Ken Marino, Lorne Michaels, Molly Shannon, Richard Kind, Sarah Schneider, Seth Meyers, The Other Two, Tina Fey, Wanda Sykes

The Unlikely Heir To ’30 Rock’ Has Emerged

Chadwick Boseman

Pick Me A Winner

February 7, 2019February 8, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments A Star Is Born, Adam McKay, Alfonso Cuaron, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, Glenn Close, Green Book, lady gaga, Melissa McCarthy, Olivia Colman, Paweł Pawlikowsi, Rami Malek, Roma, Spike Lee, The Favourite, Vice, Viggo Mortensen, Willem Dafoe, Yalitza Aparicio, Yorgos Lanthimos

The BFG 2019 Oscar Prediction Post–Part One

CLASSICS CREATORS FILM Writers

Before ‘Vice,’ There Was ‘Viva Villa’

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments Adam McKay, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, David O. Selznick, Howard Hawks, Vice, Viva Villa, Wallace Beery

Ben Hecht and the Art of the Takedown Biopic

Vice Movie Christian Bale

‘Vice’ Is a Joyfully Terrifying Biopic of W’s VP

December 21, 2018December 21, 2018 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Adam McKay, Alison Pill, Amy Adams, Annapurna Pictures, Christian Bale, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Sam Rockwell, Steve Carell, Tyler Perry

Was Dick Cheney the anti-Trump or the Anti-Christ?