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It’s Not Far From the Thousand Year Reich to ‘The Infinite State,’ But Gabriel Is New

August 11, 2026August 11, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments 1984, authoritarianism, Book Review, democracy, dystopian fiction, empire, fascism, galactic empire, George Orwell, Infinite State, military science fiction, political fiction, Richard Swan, Robert Heinlein, science fiction, space opera, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, The Decurion Saga, totalitarianism, world building

Richard Swan’s new novel follows a new democracy setting up in the shadow of an oppressive interstellar empire

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

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

What a Slugfest! Baby Yoda and Mando are Back

May 19, 2026May 19, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments 2026 movies, action adventure films, Ahsoka, Andor, AT-ATs, Baby Yoda, cinematic universes, Disney films, Disney Star Wars, fan service, film criticism, franchise filmmaking, genre storytelling, George Lucas, Grogu, Hollywood blockbusters, Jon Favreau, Lucasfilm, Lucasfilm productions, Martin Scorsese, movie review, Pedro Pascal, pop culture criticism, sci fi movies, science fiction films, science fiction franchises, Sigourney Weaver, space opera, space western, Star Wars, Star Wars canon, Star Wars fandom, television spinoffs, The Mandalorian, The Mandalorian and Grogu

The Latest Star Wars Blockbuster Comes With Rows of Hutts

To the Bank and Beyond!

March 27, 2026March 27, 2026 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments A Minecraft Movie, Baby Yoda, Barbie, BLACKPINK, BTS, China box office, Disney, film industry analysis, franchise filmmaking, G.I. Joe, Grogu, Hollywood trends, K-pop, Labubu, LEGO movies, Lisa (BLACKPINK), Lucasfilm, Marvel, merchandising, Ne Zha 2, Paramount Pictures, Pixar, Pop Mart, Resident Evil, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sony Pictures, Star Wars, Super Mario Bros, The Mandalorian, toy movies, Toy Story, Transformers, Universal Pictures, video game adaptations, Zootopia 2

Do too many Hollywood films aspire to the condition of a toy story?

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

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How ‘Star Trek’ Writers Deal With an AI That Undermines Their Universe

August 21, 2025August 26, 2025 Dan Friedman 0 Comments AI, Anson Mount, Battlestar Galactica, Carol Kane, Paramount, Paramount Plus, Star Trek, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Wars, The Expanse

As computing gobbles up the 21st century, how do we envisage the 23rd?

Kathleen Kennedy

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The Fans vs. Kathleen Kennedy: A Star Wars Saga

March 27, 2025April 7, 2025 Dr. Carlos Flores 4 Comments Andor, Ben Shapiro, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Skeleton Crew, Star Wars, The Acolyte, The Mandalorian

Is the soon-to-step-down Lucasfilm President really to blame for the franchise’s problems?

Skeleton Crew

‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’: Space Goonies Never Say Die

January 21, 2025January 24, 2025 Scott Gold 0 Comments Jude Law, Skeleton Crew, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, The Goonies

What if they made a good ‘Star Wars’ and no one watched it?

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Book and Film Globe Podcasts

BFG Podcast #154

June 19, 2024June 24, 2024 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments BFG Podcast, Dancing For the Devil, inside out 2, Pixar, Star Wars, The Acolyte

‘The Acolyte,’ ‘Inside Out 2,’ and ‘Dancing For The Devil’

Acolyte Star Wars DIsney+

Congratulations, It’s Twins!

June 19, 2024June 21, 2024 Scott Gold 0 Comments Disney Plus, Star Wars, The Acolyte

The new ‘Star Wars’ series ‘The Acolyte’ on Disney+ stands apart with great casting and a different, non-Skywalker era as its setting

Jenny Nicholson

The Jenny Nicholson Experience

May 31, 2024June 5, 2024 William Schwartz 0 Comments Disney, Jenny Nicholson, Star Wars, Star Wars: Galactic Experience

Why a nerdy four-hour YouTube video about a failed Star Wars-themed hotel finally cut Disney down to size.

Phantom Menace

‘The Phantom Menace’ Reconsidered

May 13, 2024May 16, 2024 London Faust 0 Comments George Lucas, Jake Lloyd, Natalie Portman, Star Wars, The Phantom Menace

For all its idiocy, the first of the reissued Star Wars prequel trilogy almost looks like classical silent cinema these days

Memorabilia

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Big Money in Memorabilia

February 15, 2024February 19, 2024 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments Audrey Hepburn, Bonhams, C-3PO, Elizabeth Debicki, Olivia Newton-John, Star Wars, The Crown

Movie and TV fans with a lot of money are buying props for increasingly huge sums. Why?

Friedkin

FILM Remembrance

We Lost a Lot More Than William Friedkin Yesterday

August 8, 2023August 12, 2023 Ben Schwartz 1 Comment Dirty Harry, Fritz Lang, Gene Hackman, Linda Blair, Sorcerer, Star Wars, The Exorcist, The French Connection, William Friedkin

A way of making movies, and thinking about movies, is vanishing

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