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On Election Day, we look back on the 2024 Election and what it took to win the White House ? Fight by Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes digs into that question through the wreckage and rebound of the 2024 campaign.
#2024Election #ElectoralStrategy #BFGReads
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The 2024 Election Gets Its ‘Game Change’ - Book and Film Globe
The authors of 2021’s Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency and 2017’s Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign have returned with
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November 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Yorgos Lanthimos puts the bug in Bugonia. Absurdity played out through conspiracy, captivity, and corporate terror.
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#Bugonia #FilmReview
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Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Bugonia’ Stings with Paranoid Precision - Book and Film Globe
Has the hallucinogenic absurdity of the real world caught up with cinema’s foremost practitioner of absurdism? Yorgos Lanthimos’ wild and weirdly
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November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The worst horrors happen in daylight. Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s voice — raw, brave, impossible to ignore — pulls back the curtain on sex-trafficking’s hidden networks.
#HellAGuidedTour #Memoir #HumanRights
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Hell: A Guided Tour - Book and Film Globe
It’s rough justice for the former Prince Andrew, whose brother King Charles III has unceremoniously stripped him of his royal title and expelled him from
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October 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Our 12 Books You Need to Know list for November 2025 brings literary fiction, memoir drama, and big surprises.
Margaret Atwood, Dolly Parton, Louis CK, Salman Rushdie, Michelle Obama and more...
#NovemberBooks #ReadingList #BFGTakes
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A Dozen Books You Need to Know About for November 2025 - Book and Film Globe
This month, and especially its first Tuesday, November 4, sees a bumper crop of books, where the holiday book market really gets going. Check out below
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October 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Homage or recreation? Nouvelle Vague by #RichardLinklater walks the tightrope between remaking a classic and re-feeling its era. Our piece teases out what that means today.

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Making the Wave New Again - Book and Film Globe
At a recent screening at the Directors Guild of America in New York City, Richard Linklater said that the only criterion for his French film crew was that
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October 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Under the comedy is vulnerability, resilience, and a guy who loved making people happy. 'John Candy: I Like Me' digs into the reasons we still miss him.
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#JohnCandy #DocumentaryFilm #StreamingNow
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'I Like Me' Reminds Us Why John Candy Still Matters - Book and Film Globe
I’d asked to review the John Candy documentary I Like Me before it came out, and it was green-lit by our gracious head honcho. When it came time to
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October 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Hazbin Hotel tones down the hymns and cranks up the heels. Demons, redemption, punchlines, and a hell-hole with a vision.
#HazbinHotel #AnimationForAdults
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'Hazbin Hotel': Heaven, Hell, and Adult Hilarity - Book and Film Globe
In my recent review of Lesbian Space Princess, I alluded to the bland corporatization of adult animation and the genre’s loss of status as outsider art —
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October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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A missile. A president. 18 minutes to decide the fate of millions. A House of Dynamite doesn’t wait for the boom—it lives in the seconds before it. @netflix.com #AHouseOfDynamite #KathrynBigelow #ThrillerFilm
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Kathryn Bigelow’s 'A House of Dynamite' Explodes with Real-World Terror - Book and Film Globe
Apocalyptic nailbiter A House of Dynamite has arrived in theaters and on Netflix the same week that Vladimir Putin tested a new nuclear missile with an
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October 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Fame is easy. Art is harder. 'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere' watches Bruce Springsteen turn inward to create Nebraska. Is Nebraska actually good? Is the film?
#BruceSpringsteen #MusicFilm #Biopic #BFGTakes
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Deliver Bruce Springsteen To Nebraska - Book and Film Globe
Reverent doesn’t begin to describe the hallowed hagiography of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, a hallelujah treatise on the Jersey messiah’s
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October 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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The most frightening show this Halloween is a documentary. The latest season of 'Monster' plunges into the chilling real-life story of Ed Gein. @netflix.com
#MonsterEdGein #TrueCrimeSeries #BFGTakes
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Ed Gein, American Monster - Book and Film Globe
Ed Gein was not a serial killer in the classic sense. He confessed to two murders, was suspected of seven more and was guilty of mutilating at least nine
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October 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Drag queens. Space wars. A princess with labrys power. 'Lesbian Space Princess' is delightfully absurd and unapologetically queer.
#LesbianSpacePrincess #QueerAnimation #AdultCartoons
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'Lesbian Space Princess' Revives the Weird, Wild Spirit of Old-School Adult Animation - Book and Film Globe
Part of the problem with adult animation as a concept is that it's been so thoroughly appropriated by corporate media it's hard for anything bearing the
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October 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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In spooky season, even pets aren't safe. bookandfilmglobe.com/film/canine-...
Canine Horror Flick 'Good Boy' Is No Dog - Book and Film Globe
Horror as a genre is a compact, slimline beaut that can be flipped any which way if the angle capitalizes on some previously unthought-of nightmare.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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'Omen' is still terrifying, almost 50 years later. Here's why.
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'The Omen' Is Still Terrifying Because It’s About Parents Who Can’t Love Their Children" - Book and Film Globe
The Omen (1976) begins with a lie. In a Roman hospital, a priest offers diplomat Robert Thorn a newborn to replace the baby his wife has just lost. “God
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October 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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“Every screening a statement, every story a spark.” That’s the heartbeat of NewFest 2025—and our latest piece tracks how the festival reaffirmed queer cinema as essential and alive.
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#NewFest37 #QueerFilm #CinemaMatters
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Rebellion, Revelation, and Rapture: NewFest 2025 Proves Queer Cinema Is Thriving - Book and Film Globe
For New Yorkers, the fall film festival season is synonymous with the New York Film Festival, which takes over Lincoln Center for two weeks in late
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October 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Crickets in the lots. What's happening to filmmaking in LA? what's happening to LA filmmaking?? bookandfilmglobe.com/business-2/l...
Is Los Angeles Losing Its Allure? - Book and Film Globe
One of the first rules of financial PR is if you are given a shit sandwich, write about how wonderful the condiments are. The meager third quarter “Shoot
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October 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Tim Curry’s life is a performance — camp, terror, joy — even in the past decade in a wheelchair. We take a dive into his new autobiography.
#TimCurry #CultPerformance #ActorDeepDive
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The Song and Dance Man Who Brought Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Pennywise to Life - Book and Film Globe
As Tim Curry is the first to admit, his best known alter-ego, the inimitable Dr. Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, would have no problem
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October 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Can Hegel, Freud, and Luca Guadagnino save Julia Roberts and friends from the scrambly mess of 'After the Hunt' ?https://bookandfilmglobe.com/film/after-the-hunt-is-too-smart-to-be-this-dumb/
'After the Hunt' Is Too Smart to Be This Dumb - Book and Film Globe
Light-headed when it should be deeply heady, After the Hunt is a post-#MeToo brew of toxic masculinity careening into catty feminism, and of white
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October 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Six of the best for Robert Altman's centenary. bookandfilmglobe.com/film/altman-...
Altman at 100: Six Films That Made the Maverick an American Original - Book and Film Globe
This year marks the centenary of legendary rebel director, stoner aesthetic pioneer, and serial genre revisionist Robert Altman. Born in 1925 and raised
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October 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Resurrected code, sibling war for “the future of the world”, and the visual dazzle of light cycles: that’s what you’ll find in Tron: Ares. In our new analysis, we ask — does it reboot legacy or short-circuit it? bookandfilmglobe.com/film/tron-re...
Tron Returns and Cousins Fight Over the Future of the World - Book and Film Globe
Do androids dream of electric sheep? Hard to say — but in Tron: Ares, a dazzling, vapid laser lightshow masquerading as a pensive action sci-fi spectacle,
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October 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Headlines say theaters are booming. The numbers tell a different story.
Our analysis shows how chains like AMC, Regal, and Cinemark juggle post-pandemic highs with social lows.
#BoxOffice #MovieTheaters #CinemaBusiness #BFGTakes
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Movie Theaters Celebrate Record Post-Covid Revenues, The Reality Is Different - Book and Film Globe
Movie studios are talking a happy game, but the viewing figures tell a grimmer story — just wait til you get to our graphs. When CNBC, a channel that
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October 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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"These kids who slip into my library and try to fade into the furnishings are hiding their true selves from their parents out of fear of rejection or punishment." Review by Lily Moayeri of @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social, which we saw last night at an enthusiastic full house @hotdocs.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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As a real-life school librarian, watching 'The Librarians' hits differently.
For #BannedBooksWeek we talk about fights over books, censorship, and access that define modern libraries.
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Watching 'The Librarians' as a School Librarian - Book and Film Globe
The Librarians is ostensibly about the troubles I face as a school librarian under attack from politically motivated parents who want to ban whole sets of
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October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The new #Ozzy documentary is unspeakably sad. But some amazing footage of his farewell concert and some of the people who loved him. 👉 Read the full piece at Book & Film Globe: bookandfilmglobe.com/film/no-esca... @paramountplus.com
No Escape, Except Death - Book and Film Globe
If you love Ozzy Osbourne, you may want to skip the new documentary Ozzy: No Escape from Now, now streaming on Paramount+. The central theme of the film
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October 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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In the age of audiobooks, does “read” still mean the page flipped or the story heard?
We explore the boundary between listening and reading, memory and immersion.
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If You Listen to a Book, Have You Read It? - Book and Film Globe
Three writers walk into a bar. Steve, a philosophy professor at Gettysburg College, wonders aloud why happy hour is more than an hour and rarely joyful.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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From the chilling to the poetic, October’s literary drops are anything but cozy. Our roundup of 17 books to watch includes Thomas Pynchon, Harper Lee, Philip Pullman, Reese Witherspoon, and titles that’ll haunt you long after fall.
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17 Books You Need to Know About for October - Book and Film Globe
October brings books from a plethora of famous names like Thomas Pynchon (still alive), Philip Pullman (still alive), and Harper Lee (not so alive). But
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October 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM