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Curb Your Enthusiasm

Larry David Kicks COVID to the Curb

December 3, 2021 Neal Pollack 1 Comment COVID-19, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David

The new season is strangely silent on the ultimate social-manners struggle of our time

Formula One

Formula One is Having a Moment

August 26, 2021March 29, 2022 Jaclyn Trop 0 Comments COVID-19, Daniel Ricciardo, Drive to Survive, F1, Formula One, Geri Halliwell, Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, Red Bull Racing Team, Romain Grosjean

‘Drive to Survive’ has created a mania for F1 in the U.S.A.

Book and Film Globe Podcasts Podcasts

BFG Podcast #005: Michael Lewis, ‘Mare of Easttown’, the Golden Globes, and More

May 16, 2021March 15, 2022 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments COVID-19, Golden Globes, Halston, Mare of Easttown, Michael Lewis, The Woman In The Window, Underground Railroad

Our editor and writers discuss the week that was in culture

The Premonition

‘The Premonition’ is Michael Lewis’s Science Fair Project

May 11, 2021March 15, 2022 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Centers for Disease Control, COVID-19, Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Lewis, Moneyball, The Big Short, The Fifth Risk, The Premonition

His COVID book says we didn’t social distance hard enough

Arclight

The Arclight is Dead. It Didn’t Have to Die.

April 13, 2021April 20, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Alamo Drafthouse, ArcLight, Black Widow, COVID-19, James Bond, Murder On The Orient Express, Tenet, Unhinged, Wes Anderson

Government regulations and a scared media killed it, not the virus

Film critics

Film Critics are Still Cosplaying the Apocalypse

April 5, 2021April 8, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments COVID-19, Film critics, Godzilla Vs. Kong, Movie theaters

Pretending movie theaters are dangerous places gives them a sense of purpose

Alamo

The Alamo Drafthouse Goes Bankrupt

March 3, 2021March 6, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Alamo Drafthouse, COVID-19, Texas

And it’s all your fault

Eating

Eating Out at the Movies

February 25, 2021 Matt Hanson 0 Comments Andre Gregory, Babette's Feast, Barry Levinson, Bill Murray, Coffee & Cigarrettes, COVID-19, Diner, Five Easy Pieces, Groundhog Day, Jack Nicholson, Jack White, Jim Jarmusch, Meg White, My Dinner With Andre, Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs, Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, The Trip, Wallace Shawn

With many restaurants and bars closed permanently, let’s live our day vicariously through these classic scenes

Unhinged

The Last Moviegoer

January 22, 2021January 25, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Alamo Drafthouse, Bloodshot, COVID-19, movies, Our Friend, Tenet, The Marksman, WW84

A grumpy middle-aged man who smuggles Junior Mints into matinees is all that’s left for the cinema

movies

European Study Reminds Us: It’s Safe To Go To The Movies

October 22, 2020November 2, 2020 Neal Pollack 2 Comments Another Round, COVID-19, Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train, Hocus Pocus, Mads Mikkelsen, Movie theaters, Sonny Bunch, Will Leitch

Not one case of COVID-19 traced to moviegoing, anywhere in the world

movie

Where Are All the Movie Theater COVID Cases?

September 18, 2020October 1, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Coronavirus, COVID-19, movie theater, movies, South Korea, Venice Film Festival

Not one reported case, anywhere in the world

Movie theaters

I Don’t Want To Go Back To the Movies Yet

September 18, 2020September 21, 2020 Sara Stewart 1 Comment AMC, Bill and Ted, Cinemark, COVID-19, Movie theaters, Mulan, Tenet

A career critic says: Stay away

COVID-19

Actors CREATORS FILM TELEVISION

All the Stars Who’ve Had COVID-19

September 11, 2020September 16, 2020 Jake Harris 0 Comments Adam Schlesinger, Alyssa Milano, Anna Camp, Bryan Cranston, Chris Cuomo, COVID-19, Idris Elba, John Prine, Michael Rooker, Nick Cordero, Rita Wilson, Robert Pattinson, The Rock, Tom Hanks, Tony Shalhoub

From the tragic to the absurd

FICTION NON-FICTION

Stranger Than Fiction

July 31, 2020August 10, 2020 Michael Washburn 1 Comment Bookselling, COVID-19

Months into the pandemic, indie booksellers grapple with the challenges of reopening

CREATORS TELEVISION

The Brave New World of TV Production

June 12, 2020June 15, 2020 Mia McCullough 0 Comments Chicago Film Office, COVID-19, Gavin Newsom, New York City, Schitt's Creek, The Great British Baking Show, Tiger King, TV production, Unorthodox, Zoom

Shorter work days, no sex or fight scenes, and COVID-19 compliance officers

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