BFG Podcast #198: ‘Thunderbolts,’ ‘The Four Seasons,’ and Tariff Threats Hit Hollywood
We break down the culture
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Tina Fey
Everything That’s Streaming In May 2025
‘Murderbot,’ ‘The Four Seasons,’ a new season of ‘Poker Face,’ and much more
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Mulaney, Mobilized
Post-rehab, comedian John Mulaney is back in a big way after his six-night talk-show stint on Netflix
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BFG Podcast #148
Recorded live at the Book House in Long Branch, New Jersey! We talk about ‘Civil War’ and ‘Girls 5Eva’
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‘Girls5Eva’ Should Be More Famous
The girl-group comedy from the Tina Fey factory is one of the funniest shows on TV
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Revert to the ‘Mean’
The new film musical adaptation feels like it’s wringing the last bit of money possible out of an old franchise
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Hercule Poirot Sees A Ghost
‘A Haunting In Venice,’ Kenneth Branagh’s moody, introspective adaptation of a hacky Agatha Christie Halloween whodunnit
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Something Slightly Less Wonderful, Several Decades Later
A new edition of Jeffrey Sweet’s seminal book on improv doesn’t add much, but the original text still has a lot to offer
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Everything That’s Streaming in June
Content is busting out all over
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‘Girls5eva’: 2 Hard 2 Watch
Peacock’s send-up of all-girl pop groups falls flat
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A Little Bit of ‘Soul’
Pixar’s latest imagines its most unrealistic scenario yet: a New York City teeming with life and culture
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The End of Hipster Blackface
All our favorite comedy stars were doing it, and we laughed along
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The Madness of Del Close
Documentary unravels the mystery of the guru of American comedy
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Screenwriters, Comedians React to the Death of Buck Henry
Creator of ‘Get Smart’ and Writer of ‘The Graduate’ Dead at 89
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