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‘Coyote Vs. ACME’ Vs. ‘Digger’

November 8, 2026 J. Barnes 0 Comments A Midsummer Night's Dream, ACME Corporation, Alejandro González Iñárritu, animal testing, animated comedy, Aristophanes, Buddy Crane, capitalism, cartoon comedy, Charles Koch, climate change, climate change denial, comedy film criticism, comedy movies, contemporary cinema, corporate accountability, corporate corruption, corporate ethics, corporate greed, corporate lobbying, corporate satire, Coyote Vs. Acme, Coyote Vs. ACME review, Daffy Duck, dark comedy, Digger, Digger movie review, environmental activism, environmental destruction, environmental politics, environmental satire, film criticism, film morality, Foghorn Leghorn, fossil fuels, government regulation, Hollywood blockbusters, Lee Raymond, live-action animation, Looney Tunes, Marx Brothers, Michael Wirth, movie comparisons, movie reviews, oil industry, Peter Lorre, political corruption, political filmmaking, political satire, Road Runner, satire in cinema, scientific ethics, Shakespeare, slapstick comedy, The Clouds, The Merchant of Venice, The Wasps, Tom Cruise, unethical experimentation, Warner Bros., whistleblowers, Wile E. Coyote

What makes a film about corporate greed and its repercussions succeed, or fail?

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‘Wild Horse Nine’ Is Full of Hysterical but Horrible Remorse

November 6, 2026November 11, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments 1970s period films, 1973 Chilean coup, absurdist humor, American foreign policy, Augusto Pinochet, Bay of Pigs, betrayal, black comedy, character driven drama, Chile, CIA, CIA history, Cold War, Cold War espionage, Congo, covert operations, Cuba, dark comedy, Easter Island, espionage films, existential comedy, film criticism, Friendship, gallows humor, government corruption, Guatemala, guilt and regret, historical fiction, In Bruges, Indonesia, intelligence agencies, John F. Kennedy assassination, John Malkovich, loyalty, Martin McDonagh, Martin McDonagh films, melancholic comedy, mercy killing, misanthropy, Moai statues, moral ambiguity, moral responsibility, mortality, movie reviews, Parker Posey, Patrice Lumumba, political assassinations, political satire, political thriller, Rapa Nui, redemption, Salvador Allende, Sam Rockwell, Santiago, spy movies, Steve Buscemi, terminal illness, The Banshees of Inisherin, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Tom Waits, US interventionism, Wild Horse Nine, Wild Horse Nine review

John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell take Martin McDonagh’s jaded Cold War warriors and turn them into Big Heads on Easter Island

BFG Podcast #317: You Can Hear Everything

November 2, 2026November 2, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Amanda Seyfried, Behemoth!, BFG Podcast, Book and Film Globe podcast, contemporary cinema, culture podcast, documentary ethics, documentary film, Elizabeth Holmes, entertainment podcast, film criticism, film festivals, film podcast, fraud, independent film, international cinema, Kenji Fujishima, Mike Leigh, movie reviews, Nathan Fielder, Neal Pollack, New York cinema, New York Film Festival, NYFF, Silicon Valley, Stephen Garrett, Theranos, Tony Gilroy, true crime documentary, You Can See Everything

Neal, Kenji, and Stephen chat about New York Film Festival, Nathan Fielder, Amanda Seyfried, Mike Leigh, and more

‘Wicker’ Provides a Rom-Com Interlaced With Substance

November 1, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments absurdist comedy, Alex Huston Fischer, Alexander Skarsgard, body autonomy, Brothers Grimm, class and society, dark comedy, Eleanor Wilson, Elizabeth Debicki, erotic comedy, fairy tale adaptations, fairy tales, fantasy comedy, fantasy film, female sexuality, feminist cinema, feminist comedy, feminist fable, film adaptation, film criticism, folk fantasy, folk horror, folklore, gallows humor, gender roles, gossip, independent cinema, jealousy, love and devotion, magical craftsmanship, magical realism, marriage, medieval fantasy, movie reviews, Olivia Colman, ostracism, outsiders, patriarchal society, patriarchy, Peter Dinklage, Richard E. Grant, romantic comedy, romantic fantasy, satire, sexual desire, sexual repression, small-town prejudice, social conformity, social satire, The Wicker Husband, unconventional romance, Ursula Wills, Wicker, Wicker film review, wicker man, Wicker movie

Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård tentpole this offbeat drama from Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson

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Netflix and the Lost Churros

October 30, 2026October 29, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Academy Awards, Animals, audience engagement, Bela Bajaria, Below, Ben Affleck, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Bridgerton, content strategy, corporate entertainment, creative quality, crime thrillers, Dark, Elon Musk, Emmys, entertainment industry, film criticism, giant squid, Gillian Anderson, Golden Globes, Hollywood, Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience, Josh Hartnett, Kerry Washington, La Casa De Papel, Luis Elizondo, Lupin, maritime horror, Mindhunter, monster movies, movie reviews, Netflix, Netflix advertising, Netflix and the Lost Churros, Netflix layoffs, Netflix leadership, Netflix miniseries, Netflix movies, Netflix originals, Netflix stock, Nielsen ratings, original programming, Peter Rice, Robert De Niro, science fiction horror, Squid Game, Stranger Things, streaming competition, streaming economics, streaming industry, streaming reviews, streaming services, streaming wars, Television Criticism, television viewership, The OA, The Whisper Man, UFOs, Wednesday, YouTube

What ‘Animals’ and ‘Below’ tell us about the streaming giant

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A Concrete Example of a Documentary Masterpiece

October 27, 2026October 26, 2026 J. Barnes 0 Comments absurdist comedy, affordable housing, architecture, BQE, Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Buddhist philosophy, City of Yes, comedy documentary, concrete, constructive trauma, documentary film, documentary review, Dorothy Chin Brandt, entropy, Eric Adams, existentialism, experimental documentary, film criticism, grief, Hallmark movies, HBO, How To With John Wilson, impermanence, Jack Macco, John Wilson, Kathy Hochul, mortality, movie reviews, New York City, New York City politics, observational filmmaking, Pantheon, philosophical comedy, Ridgewood Queens, Roman architecture, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, sand mandalas, The History of Concrete, urban decay, urban infrastructure, zoning reform

John Wilson’s ‘History of Concrete’ is so much more than its boring title suggests

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Paweł Pawlikowski Drives Us Through a Decimated ‘Fatherland’

October 24, 2026October 28, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments arthouse cinema, August Diehl, Bayreuth Festival, black and white cinematography, Cold War, cultural memory, denazification, East Germany, Erika Mann, European cinema, exile, family relationships, father-daughter relationships, Fatherland, film criticism, Frankfurt, German cinema, German history, German literature, grief, Hanns Zischler, Historical drama, international cinema, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Klaus Mann, mourning, movie reviews, National identity, nationalism, Nazi Germany, Paweł Pawlikowski, political drama, postwar Germany, Richard Wagner, Sandra Hüller, Thomas Mann, W.H. Auden, Weimar, West Germany, World War II

Postwar Germany views itself through the monochromatic portrait of the Mann family

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Perpendicular Lives Intersect in ‘Possible Love’

October 20, 2026October 26, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments arthouse cinema, capitalism, Cho Yeo-jeong, cinematic storytelling, class inequality, documentary ethics, documentary filmmaking, economic exploitation, factory workers, Family Drama, film review, grief, international cinema, Jeon Do-yeon, Korean cinema, Korean drama, Lee Chang-dong, love stories, marriage, movie reviews, Netflix, Possible Love, privilege, Psychological Drama, relationships, social realism, South Korean films, Sul Kyung-gu, unemployment, voyeurism, wealth inequality, working class, Zo In-sung

Lee Chang-dong brings two unlikely couples together in this NYFF success that is heading straight to theater screens and Netflix

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You Can See Everything, Except the Truth

October 18, 2026October 22, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Abbott and Costello, AI, artificial intelligence, authenticity, Billy Evans, corporate fraud, deepfakes, documentary ethics, documentary film, documentary review, Edison blood-testing device, Elizabeth Holmes, Enron, Errol Morris, experimental documentary, film criticism, Frederick Wiseman, investigative documentary, Lance Oppenheim, media manipulation, mockumentary, movie reviews, Nathan Fielder, Nathan For You, reality and illusion, Silicon Valley, tech startups, The Rehearsal, Theranos, Theranos scandal, true crime documentary, truth and deception, Werner Herzog, white collar crime, Who's on First, You Can See Everything

Feel free to mix Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim, Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans but that’s no recipe for non-fiction

Two Highlights From the New York Film Festival Main Slate

October 16, 2026October 15, 2026 Kenji Fujishima 0 Comments 8 1 2, Adam Driver, Aftersun, Alice Bailey Johnson, All of a Sudden, Andor, art and empathy, arthouse cinema, Birgit Minichmayr, British cinema, Cannes Film Festival, capitalism, Carlos Reygadas, Charlotte Wells, dementia, Drive My Car, elder care, Emeric Pressburger, Everytime, experimental cinema, Federico Fellini, female friendship, Film at Lincoln Center, film criticism, film scores, French cinema, Gone to Earth, Gregory Oke, grief, Hard Truths, Heil Jupiter!, James Gray, Japanese cinema, JoBeth Williams, Kate OFlynn, Marion Bailey, Michael Clayton, Michael Powell, Mike Leigh, Miles Teller, mortality, movie reviews, New York Film Festival, New York Film Festival 2026, nursing homes, NYFF 2026, Paul Jesson, Pedro Pascal, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, social realism, social workers, surrealism, Tao Okamoto, Tender Loving Care, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Virginie Efira, Widow's Bay

The probable last film from a British legend and the latest work from a Japanese master brightened this year’s edition of this festival of festivals.

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Two Disappointments in the New York Film Festival Main Slate

October 15, 2026October 19, 2026 Kenji Fujishima 1 Comment 8 1 2, Adam Driver, Aftersun, Andor, arthouse cinema, Behemoth!, Birgit Minichmayr, Cannes Film Festival, Carlos Reygadas, Charlotte Wells, classical music, Emeric Pressburger, Eva Victor, Everytime, experimental cinema, Federico Fellini, Film at Lincoln Center, film criticism, film scores, Gone to Earth, Gregory Oke, grief, Heil Jupiter!, James Gray, JoBeth Williams, Michael Clayton, Michael Powell, Miles Teller, movie reviews, New York Film Festival, New York Film Festival 2026, NYFF 2026, Olivia Wilde, Paper Tiger, Pedro Pascal, Sandra Wollner, Scarlett Johansson, surrealism, TIFF, Tony Gilroy, Toronto International Film Festival, Will Arnett

Pre-festival hype and even stars like Pedro Pascal and Olivia Wilde don’t always satisfy

Unexpected Gems From the New York Film Festival

October 14, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments arthouse cinema, Arundhati Roy, China, Currents, documentary, Éric Baudelaire, experimental cinema, Film at Lincoln Center, Film festival, For the Moon, Goodbye South Goodbye, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, Kinmen, Luise Donschen, movie reviews, National Institute for Blind Youth, New York Film Festival, NYFF, Overt Listening, Pradip Krishen, restored films, Revivals, Taiwan, Tiffany Sia, Tomorrow a Long Time Ago, world cinema

From avant-garde documentaries to restored classics, the festival’s deepest cuts were among its finest.

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Tribeca 2026: The Year of Going to the Cinema

June 24, 2026June 29, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Al Pacino, Alicia Vikander, American independent film, Billie Lourd, cinema culture, documentary films, documentary review, Elizabeth Cutler, emerging filmmakers, Festival Coverage, festival favorites, Fidel Castro, film criticism, film festivals, Flywheel, Harvey Guillén, independent film, indie cinema, Japanese cinema, Josh Brener, Julie Rice, Killing Castro, Memorizu, mental health, Miiku Sakanishi, motherhood, movie reviews, New York City, Peloton, political thrillers, postpartum depression, relationships, Romantic Drama, Ruth Zuckerman, Seven OClock Breakfast Club from the Brokenhearted, SoulCycle, Spin Wars, streaming movies, That Friend, The Last Day, Tribeca 2026, Tribeca Festival, Tribeca reviews, Victoria Pedretti, world cinema

Subjects ranging from rural Japan to New York spin studios to Cold War Cuba showcased the festival’s eclectic range

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‘Diamonds’ Are a Costume Shop’s Best Friend

May 18, 2026May 20, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments 1970s fashion, art house cinema, cinema craft, costume design, costume designers, Diamonds, dressmaking, ensemble cast, European cinema, fashion in film, Ferzan Ozpetek, film industry, foreign films, Italian cinema, Italian movies, Jasmine Trinca, Luisa Ranieri, movie reviews, period dramas, Stefano Accorsi, tailoring, women at work, women filmmakers, workplace drama

Surprise hit from Italy depicts women in the ’70s making movie dresses

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BFG Podcast #306: Michael Jackson, Ian McKellen, Anne Hathaway, Their Films and More

May 6, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments art world satire, back in black, BFG Podcast, blockbuster season, Bohemian Rhapsody, Book and Film Globe, british acting, celebrity biopics, cinema discussion, Colman Domingo, cultural criticism, Emily Blunt, entertainment journalism, entertainment podcast, fashion industry satire, fashion movies, film criticism, film criticism podcast, gillian gaar, Hollywood sequels, Ian McKellen, Indie Film, Jackson 5, jeff bezos parody, Justin Theroux, london art world, Meryl Streep, Michael Jackson, michael jackson biopic, michael movie, Michaela Coel, movie industry commentary, movie podcast, movie reviews, music biopics, music podcast, Neal Pollack, pop culture podcast, pop music movies, prestige cinema, sequel fatigue, Stephen Garrett, Steven Soderbergh, summer movie season, The Christophers, The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Drama, victory tour

Neal Pollack, Gillian Gaar, and Stephen Garrett discuss biopics, drama, and people who oughtta retire

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