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BFG Podcast #316: Boomer Hollywood Twilight

October 12, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Aaron Sorkin, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Boomer Hollywood, Chris Hansen, cinema, Digger, Facebook, film criticism, Hollywood, Lance Oppenheim, Mikey Madison, movie podcast, Neal Pollack, Podcast, podcast episode, Primetime, Robert Pattinson, Stephen Garrett, Streaming, The Social Network, The Social Reckoning, To Catch a Predator, Tom Cruise

Neal and Stephen chat about Aaron Sorkin, Tom Cruise, Robert Pattinson and more

The Real Scandal Is the Whitewashing of ‘The Odyssey’

August 3, 2026 J. Barnes 0 Comments ancient Greece, Anne Hathaway, Ben-Hur, Brad Pitt, Brett Ratner, casting, Christopher Nolan, Elon Musk, Exodus Gods and Kings, film criticism, Greek history, Greek mythology, Hercules, Hollywood, Homer, Hugh Jackman, Jason and the Argonauts, Lupita Nyong’o, Matt Damon, Mel Gibson, movie review, Nicholas Galitzine, Renny Harlin, representation, Ridley Scott, The Legend of Hercules, The Odyssey, The Passion of the Christ, The Ten Commandments, Theo James, Tom Holland, Troy, whitewashing, Zendaya, Zoe Kazan

Where are the Greek actors for a Greek epic?

BUSINESS Featured Stories FILM

Kevin Sorbo Lost Hollywood. Kelsey Grammer Learned How to Beat It.

July 28, 2026August 1, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments Angel Studios, anti-woke, Athena, Avengers Doomsday, Ben Shapiro, box office, cancel culture, celebrities, Christian films, Christopher Nolan, conservative media, Donald Trump, Eden's Choice, Elon Musk, faith-based films, film industry, Fox News, Hercules The Legendary Journeys, Hollywood, JC Films, Jesus Revolution, Kelsey Grammer, Kevin Sorbo, Lucy Lawless, movie criticism, Night at the Museum of the Bible, Pickleball Pete, Supergirl, Tea Party, The Marvels, The Odyssey, Xena, Young Washington, Zendaya

Two conservative actors took very different paths after falling out of the Hollywood consensus

BUSINESS CLASSICS Featured Stories FILM

Extras: An Obituary

July 22, 2026July 30, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 1 Comment AI, Alex Garland, animatronics, Arab Legion, Avengers: Endgame, background actors, Battle of Aqaba, blockbusters, Book and Film Globe, CGI, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Nolan films, CIvil War, D Day, David Lean, David Lean films, digital crowds, Dunkirk, epic cinema, Extras, film history, film production, Greece, Hollywood, Jordan, King Hussein, King Hussein of Jordan, Lawrence of Arabia, Lawrence of Arabia battle scene, Matt Damon, Messenia, Normandy, Oppenheimer, Peter Jackson, practical effects, puppetry, Ray Mendoza, SAG-AFTRA, Saving Private Ryan, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Steven Spielberg, T.E. Lawrence, Tenet, The Hobbit, The Lord Of The Rings, The Odyssey, union actors, visual effects, William Tecumseh Sherman

AI sounds the death knell for living crowds of people on film

Slavoj Žižek Can’t Name the Monster Anymore

July 13, 2026July 12, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 4 Comments algorithmic politics, algorithms, attention economy, authoritarianism, Bloomsbury, Book Review, contemporary politics, critical theory, Donald Trump, dopamine politics, Elysium, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Giorgia Meloni, Hegel, Hollywood, Jacques Lacan, Javier Milei, Jean Baudrillard, Liberal Fascisms, liberalism, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Narendra Modi, Nayib Bukele, Nonfiction, philosophy, political philosophy, political theory, populism, Slavoj Žižek, social media, Star Wars, The Hunger Games, The Matrix

‘Liberal Fascisms’ is the latest of the viral Slovenian philosophers collected essays

Comedy Featured Stories FILM

Minions and Monsters With Movies and Mayhem

July 4, 2026July 9, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Allison Janney, animated film, animation, Bobby Moynihan, Book and Film Globe, Brian Lynch, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Christoph Waltz, Comedy, Cthulhu, Despicable Me, family film, film review, George Lucas, H.P. Lovecraft, Harold Lloyd, Hollywood, Illumination, Jeff Bridges, Jesse Eisenberg, Minions, Minions and Monsters, Modern Times, movies, Phil LaMarr, Pierre Coffin, Safety Last, silent films, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Blob, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Trey Parker, Universal Pictures, Zoey Deutch

Is this the nail in the Pierre Coffin series?

Featured Stories FILM

America at 250 Is a Clash of ‘Taxi Driver’ vs ‘All the President’s Men’

July 3, 2026July 9, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 1970s cinema, 1976 films, Alan J. Pakula, algorithms, alienation, All the President's Men, America at 250, American cinema, American politics, antihero, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, cultural criticism, democracy, Dustin Hoffman, Fight Club, film criticism, Hollywood, institutions, Journalism, local journalism, loneliness, loneliness epidemic, manosphere, Martin Scorsese, media consolidation, media trust, movies, news media, newspapers, Paul Schrader, political films, Richard Nixon, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, social media, Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle, Washington Post, Watergate

Travis Bickle is wiping the floor with Woodward and Bernstein

BFG Podcast #309: ‘Disclosure Day,’ ‘Backrooms,’ and Nicolas Cage With the Power of Spider

June 17, 2026June 18, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Amazon Prime Video, Backrooms, BFG Podcast, Book and Film Globe, Book and Film Globe podcast, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, Daniel Aaron, Disclosure Day, Emily Blunt, film criticism, Hollywood, independent horror, Josh O'Connor, liminal spaces, Matthew Sheffer, movie podcast, Neal Pollack, Nicolas Cage, pop culture podcast, Prime Video, Renate Reinsve, science fiction films, Scott Gold, Spider Noir, Spider-Man, Stephen Garrett, Steven Spielberg

Neal Pollack, Daniel Aaron, Stephen Garrett are united by new, freshly bought and owned theme music!

BFG Podcast #308: ‘Obsession,’ ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu,’ and a Whole Cannes of Worms

June 3, 2026June 4, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments 2026 movies, BFG Podcast, Book and Film Globe, Book and Film Globe podcast, Cannes 2026, Cannes coverage, Cannes Film Festival, Dan Friedman, Daniel Aaron, entertainment podcast, Festival Coverage, film festivals, film journalism, Grogu, Hollywood, horror cinema, horror movies, Inde Navarrette, independent film, Jeremy Allen White, Jon Favreau, Neal Pollack, OBSESSION, podcast recommendations, Rotta the Hutt, science fiction films, Star Wars, Star Wars franchise, Stephen Garrett, The Mandalorian and Grogu

Neal Pollack welcomes Daniel Aaron, Stephen Garrett, and Dan Friedman to the Pod Dome

DOCUMENTARY FILM

Documentaries, Biopics, and Other Promotional Material

May 26, 2026May 26, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments A Complete Unknown, Amanda Knox, Amy Winehouse, Better Man, biopics, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, celebrity culture, cinema and commerce, documentaries, documentary filmmaking, Elton John, Elvis Presley, film criticism, film industry, Gregg Allman, Hollywood, intellectual property, IP filmmaking, Jiminy Glick, Martin Scorsese, Martin Short, Marty Life Is Short, Melania Trump, michael movie, music biopics, Netflix, Patrick Spikes, Robbie Williams, Rocketman, Simran Hans, Streaming Television, The Guardian, Whitney Houston

How far are fact-based movies just access journalism in cinematic form?

Streaming TELEVISION

‘Margot’s Got Money Troubles’ is Actual Money for Apple+

May 8, 2026May 8, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Apple TV, Apple TV Plus, Bodhi, character driven drama, comedy drama, contemporary TV, dramedy, Elle Fanning, Emmy buzz, entertainment, Euphoria, Family Drama, feminism, feminist television, Gen Z culture, Greg Kinnear, Hollywood, Marcia Gay Harden, Michelle Pfeiffer, millennial culture, modern sexuality, motherhood, Nick Offerman, Nicole Kidman, OnlyFans, parenting, Pop Culture, prestige TV, rufi thorpe, Sex Education, sex positivity, sex work discourse, Shyanne, single motherhood, streaming culture, Streaming Television, streaming TV, Television Review, television series, TikTok culture, TV criticism, TV review, women on television

Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nick Offerman, Nicole Kidman, Marcia Gay Harden and more star in an Emmy-destined show

Everything You Need to Know for the Oscars Tonight

March 15, 2026March 15, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Academy Awards, arthouse cinema, awards preview, Awards Season, Best Picture, Book and Film Globe, Bugonia, Chloé Zhao, cinema, Emma Stone, Film Awards, film criticism, film industry, genre film, Hamnet, Hollywood, independent film, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, movie awards, Oscars, Oscars 2026, Paul Mescal, Ryan Coogler, Sinners, Yorgos Lanthimos

Make Book and Film Globe your Academy Companion

The Year AI Began To Shape Hollywood

December 18, 2025December 18, 2025 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments 2023 actors strike, Academy Awards, Adrien Brody, AI, AI ethics, AI filmmaking, artificial intelligence, Bob Iger, ChatGPT, collective bargaining, copyright, David Ellison, digital performers, Disney, Emilia Perez, Fantasia, Felicity Jones, film industry, film technology, future of cinema, generative AI, Hollywood, Hollywood studios, intellectual property, Karla Sofía Gascón, labor relations, Larry Ellison, Marvel, Mickey Mouse, Netflix, OpenAI, Oracle, Oscars, Paramount, Particle6, Pixar, Respeecher, SAG-AFTRA, Sora, Star Wars, Steamboat Willie, synthetic actors, The Brutalist, Tilly Norwood, voice technology, Walt Disney Company, Xicoia, Zurich Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival Summit

From AI Oscar wins to Disney handing OpenAI its crown jewels film is racing from talent to tech

Trump

Trump Vows to “Protect” Us From Foreign-Made Films

May 5, 2025May 6, 2025 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments Donald Trump, Hollywood, Tariffs

Who knew that homegrown movies are key to U.S. national defense?

Hollywood

FILM TELEVISION

Hollywood Is Very Screwed

April 24, 2025April 29, 2025 Stephen Macaulay 1 Comment A Minecraft Movie, California, Film LA, Gavin Newsom, Georgia, Hollywood

Tax-incentive numbers present an increasingly bleak scenario for California film production

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