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Past Lives

Amitav Ghosh Writes a Covid Novel Like No one Else

June 16, 2026June 4, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Amitav Ghosh, Bengali culture, book criticism, Book Review, Calcutta, climate fiction, contemporary fiction, COVID-19 novels, family sagas, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Ghost-Eye, Gun Island, historical fiction, immigration and identity, Indian literature, international literature, Kolkata, literary fiction, literary novels, magical realism, Manasa Devi, Marwari community, novel reviews, pandemic fiction, Past Lives, reincarnation, South Asian literature, spirituality and religion, world literature

Follow-up to ‘Gun Island,’ ‘Ghost-Eye’ takes us from Brooklyn to Calcutta and back in time

Materialists

‘Materialists’: Celine Song Gets It All Wrong

June 17, 2025July 3, 2025 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Celine Song, Chris Evans, Dakota Johnson, Materialists, Past Lives, Pedro Pascal

Dakota Johnson stars in snoozy, unfunny romcom

Poor Things

Who Will Win The Oscar For Best Picture?

February 26, 2024 Neal Pollack 0 Comments American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, Best Picture, Bradley Cooper, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Emma Stone, Jeffrey Wright, Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone, Maestro, Messi, Oppenheimer, Oscars, Past Lives, Paul Giamatti, Poor Things, Sterling K. Brown, The Holdovers, The Zone of Interest

We lay the odds so you are not poor things on March 10

Past lives

Artsy-Fartsy Love

June 22, 2023June 26, 2023 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Celine Song, Greta Lee, Past Lives, Teo Yoo

‘Past Lives’ is the “quality” option in a summer of loud franchise movies

Sundance

Misfits Win At Sundance

January 31, 2023February 3, 2023 Stephen Garrett 1 Comment Ben Platt, Celine Song, James Baldwin, Kokomo City, Nikki Giovanni, Past Lives, Theater Camp

Underdog films–not the horror-rock band–hit it big at festival

Featured Stories

Featured Stories FILM

John Malkovich, Werner Herzog, and Danny Boyle Show Up Big in Italy

September 5, 2026September 10, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

Actors and directors bring the goods to the Venice Film Festival 2026

Featured Stories Podcasts

BFG Podcast #314: Lanterns, Coyotes, Acme Discussions

September 3, 2026September 3, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0

Featured Stories FILM

Ridley Scott Is Back, Flying By the Light of ‘The Dog Stars’

August 28, 2026August 31, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

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Maybe You Can Go Home Again, Samba Traore

August 27, 2026August 30, 2026 William Schwartz 0

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