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Cannes Has Some Serious (and Some Comic) Daddy Issues

May 19, 2026May 19, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments A24, Adam Driver, art house cinema, arthouse film, arthouse films, Asghar Farhadi, auteur cinema, award season, Camp Miasma, Cannes 2026, Cannes Film Festival, cinema criticism, cinema culture, Club Kid, cold war cinema, Cristian Mungiu, daddy issues, directorial debuts, Disney Plus, Elijah Wood, European cinema, European film, fatherhood in film, Fatherland, festival acquisitions, festival buzz, Festival Coverage, film criticism, film distribution, film festival coverage, film festivals, Fjord, Friday the 13th, Gentle Monster, Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, Havana Rose Liu, Hirokazu Kore-eda, independent filmmaking, Indie Film, international cinema, Ira Sachs, James Gray, Jane Schoenbrun, Javier Bardem, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Lennon The Last Interview, John Travolta, Jordan Firstman, Kristen Stewart, Léa Seydoux, LGBTQ cinema, meta horror, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Michelle Rodriguez, midnight movies, movie industry news, Nicolas Winding Refn, Oscar contenders, Palme D'Or, Paper Tiger, Paweł Pawlikowski, Peter Jackson, Pierre Salvadori, postwar Germany, queer cinema, Quentin Dupieux, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Sandra Hüller, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Lennon, Sebastian Stan, Slasher Movies, Sophie Thatcher, Steven Soderbergh, The Beatles, The Beloved, The Electric Kiss, The Fast and the Furious, Thomas Mann, Un Certain Regard, Vin Diesel, Woody Harrelson, world cinema

Family ties are being stretched for drama and laughs in festival film after film

‘Animal Farm’ Gets the Super Mario Bros. Treatment

April 24, 2026April 24, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments 1984 comparison, Andy Serkis, Angel Studios, Animal Farm, Animal Farm themes, animated films, Big Brother, book adaptations, Boxer character, Cold War themes, culture criticism, film adaptation, film criticism, Gaten Matarazzo, George Orwell, Glenn Close, Hollywood animation, independent film, Jim Parsons, Kieran Culkin, media analysis, modern satire, Napoleon character, Nicholas Stoller, Orwellian, political satire, Seth Rogen, Sound of Freedom, Soviet Union history, Stalin allegory, Steve Buscemi, streaming and film industry, totalitarianism, voice acting, Woody Harrelson

A surprisingly faithful adaptation of George Orwell’s classic can’t escape its context

Texas

Two For Texas: McConaughey and Harrelson Take On Hollywood Production

February 4, 2025February 10, 2025 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments Billy Bob Thornton, Dennis Quaid, Matthew McConaughey, Renée Zellweger, Texas Film Incentive, Woody Harrelson

A “True Detective” mini-reprise touts Texas as the place to make movies

Fly Me To The Moon

The Cute Stuff

July 12, 2024July 16, 2024 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Channing Tatum, Fly Me To The Moon, Jim Rash, Scarlett Johannsson, Woody Harrelson

‘Fly Me To The Moon’ is more ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ than ‘Apollo 13’

Bill Maher

Don’t Party With Bill Maher

September 28, 2023October 5, 2023 Dr. Carlos Flores 6 Comments Bella Thorne, Bill Maher, Club Random, Ice Cube, Jordan Peterson, Men's Journal, Quentin Tarantino, Real Time, Richard Dreyfus, Woody Harrelson

The waking nightmare of “Club Random”

Everything That’s Streaming in May 2023

May 2, 2023May 8, 2023 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments American Born Chinese, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elena Kampouris, Fear The Walking Dead, FUBAR, I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson, Jimmy O. Yang, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Justin Theroux, Monica Barbaro, Platonic, Rebecca Ferguson, Rose Byrne, Seth Rogen, Silo, The Muppets Mayhem, White House Plumbers, WifeLike, Woody Harrelson

Enjoy the new material while you can

COVID

Hollywood Ends COVID Production Restrictions, While Also Extending Them

April 4, 2023April 7, 2023 Neal Pollack 0 Comments COVID-19, Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA, Tilda Swinton, Tim Robbins, Woody Harrelson

The last bastion of pandemic pantomime refuses to surrender

Top Ten

One of These Top Ten Films Lists Is Not Like The Others

December 13, 2022December 15, 2022 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Alex Garland, Bones and All, Do Revenge, Emma Thompson, Fire Island, Jessie Buckley, Joel Kim Booster, Jordan Peele, Luca Guadagnino, Maya Hawke, Men, Nope, Rory Kinnear, She Said, The Lost City, Timothée Chalamet, Triangle of Sadness, Woody Harrelson

“Sophisticated” or not, our critic chooses the movies that brought her joy this year

Triangle of Sadness

Triangulation of Sadness

October 25, 2022October 31, 2022 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Charlbi Dean, Dolly DeLeon, Harris Dickinson, Mike White, Ruben Östlund, The White Lotus, Triangle of Sadness, Woody Harrelson

Ruben Östlund’s savage satire of the global leisure class vomits up its cake and eats it too

Cannes

With a Capital C

May 23, 2022May 25, 2022 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Anthony Hopkins, Armageddon Time, Cannes Film Festival, George Miller, Idris Elba, James Gray, Quentin Dupieux, Ruben Östlund, Smoking Causes Coughing, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Tilda Swinton, Tom Cruise, Top Gun Maverick, Triangle of Sadness, Volodymyr Zelensky, Woody Harrelson

Cinema comes roaring back at Cannes 2022

Neal Pollack

Book and Film Globe Podcasts

BFG Podcast With Neal Pollack #023: ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land,’ ‘Venom,’ ‘Foundation,’ and Midnight Mass

October 5, 2021June 16, 2022 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land, Foundation, Midnight Mass, Mike Flanagan, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Woody Harrelson

Our editor and writers break down the culture

Venom

Silly Venom

October 1, 2021 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Andy Serkis, Carnage, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Tom Hardy, Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Woody Harrelson

‘Let There Be Carnage’ brings a light touch to a dark franchise

Journalists

Movies About Journalists in the Line of Fire

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 Neal Pollack 4 Comments A Mighty Heart, A Private War, Alfred Hitchcock, Angelina Jolie, Christian Bale, Daniel Pearl, Foreign Correspondent, Helena Bonham Carter, James Woods, Jamie Dornan, Jim Belushi, Joel McCrea, Linda Hunt, Live From Baghdad, Mel Gibson, Michael Keaton, Michael Winterbottom, Newsies, Nick Nolte, Oliver Stone, Peter Weir, Rosamund Pike, Salvador, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Dillane, The Year of Living Dangerously, Under Fire, Welcome to Sarajevo, Woody Harrelson

During an unprecedented assault on the press in the United States, these situations look awfully familiar

Life of Skrein

November 8, 2019November 14, 2019 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Aaron Eckhart, Charlton Heston, Dennis Quaid, Ed Skrein, Henry Fonda, Luke Evans, Midway, Nick Jonas, Patrick Wilson, Ronald Emmerich, Woody Harrelson

‘Midway’ Features Our Worst Actor Playing the Best of the Greatest Generation

Zombieland: Double-Tap

October 18, 2019October 23, 2019 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments abigail breslin, Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Zombieland

A Fun Gallagher Show of Gore

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