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BFG Podcast #119

September 18, 2023September 19, 2023 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Ava DuVernay, Bill Maher, Drew Barrymore, Kevin Costner, Richard Linklater, Special Ops: Lioness, Taylor Sheridan, Yellowstone

The politics of bringing a show back during a Hollywood strike, a report from the Toronto International Film Festival, and a summer of drama around ‘Yellowstone’–plus a review of ‘Special Ops: Lioness’

Toronto

Toronto: Who Needs Actors?

September 16, 2023September 19, 2023 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments AGGRO DR1FT, American Fiction, Ava DuVernay, Cord Jefferson, Dream Scenario, Erasure, Glen Powell, Harmony Korine, Jeffrey Wright, Kristoffer Borgli, Nicolas Cage, origin, Percival Everett, Richard Linklater

Celebrity on trial in TIFF offerings

Golden Globes

FILM TELEVISION

The Golden Globes: a History of Scandal

May 13, 2021May 13, 2021 Jake Harris 0 Comments Ava DuVernay, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Jennifer Jones, Johnny Depp, Mark Ruffalo, Pia Zadora, Scarlett Johansson, The Tourist, Tom Cruise

The timeline of a doomed awards show

Black Oscar Snubs–The Egregious History

January 20, 2020 Kyra Jones 1 Comment #OscarsSoWhite, A Raisin In The Sun, Academy Awards, Angela Bassett, Ava DuVernay, Billy Dee Williams, David Oyelwo, Denzel Washington, Diana Ross, Hidden Figures, Janelle Monae, Lady Sings The Blues, Malcolm X, Octavia Spencer, Oprah Winfrey, Oscar, Richard Pryor, Ruby Dee, Ryan Coogler, Samuel L. Jackson, Selma, Sidney Poitier, Spike Lee, Taraji P. Henson, The Color Purple, Whoopi Goldberg, Will Smith

#OscarsSoWhite Through the Decades

Netflix TELEVISION

‘When They See Us’

June 20, 2019June 21, 2019 Erika Schickel 0 Comments Ava DuVernay, Donald Trump, Felicity Huffman, Jharrel Jerome, Oprah Winfrey, The Central Park Five, Vera Farmiga

I Once Played the Central Park Jogger, but Ava DuVernay’s Netflix Miniseries Tells the Real Story

I Predict a Lit Riot

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 Melissa Holbrook Pierson 0 Comments Ava DuVernay, Rachel Kushner, Riots I Have Known, Ryan Chapman, The Mars Room

Ryan Chapman’s ‘Riots I Have Known,’ a Prison Novel That’s Actually a Literary Satire

History TELEVISION

Who Writes Our History?

April 24, 2019April 30, 2019 Neal Pollack 2 Comments Ava DuVernay, Bert Williams, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Ida B. Wells, Jill LePore, PBS, Reconstruction, Stony The Road, Thaddeus Russell

Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s ‘Reconstruction,’ on PBS