Barry Hertz
@hertzbarry.bsky.social
Film Editor, The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada). Author of Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious. https://linktr.ee/barryhertz
NEW: I spoke w/ Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault about why the CBC isn't being targeted for 15% cuts after all, how the long-rumoured Telefilm/CMF/NFB merger is inching toward reality, why permanent Telefilm funding ain't in cards, and, yes, Eurovision. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Canadian Identity Minister Steven Guilbeault on what the budget means for cultural sovereignty
Government investing $503-million in cultural sector over four years starting 2026-27
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November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
NEW: I spoke w/ Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault about why the CBC isn't being targeted for 15% cuts after all, how the long-rumoured Telefilm/CMF/NFB merger is inching toward reality, why permanent Telefilm funding ain't in cards, and, yes, Eurovision. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
It was a true pleasure and delight to sit down and talk about my new FAST & FURIOUS book with @theankler.com's @richardrushfield.bsky.social for this week's Rushfield Lunch! (I was too excited to eat, though I do drink an awful lot of water during the segment.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdBC...
The Rushfield Lunch: How the ‘Fast & Furious’ Laid the Groundwork for 25 Years of Hollywood
YouTube video by The Ankler
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November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It was a true pleasure and delight to sit down and talk about my new FAST & FURIOUS book with @theankler.com's @richardrushfield.bsky.social for this week's Rushfield Lunch! (I was too excited to eat, though I do drink an awful lot of water during the segment.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdBC...
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How did a film many assumed would be a clunker spawn a $7B franchise and reshape Hollywood? @theglobeandmail.com's @hertzbarry.bsky.social, author of "Welcome to the Family," breaks down the Fast & Furious phenomenon with @colinellis81.bsky.social
How a Movie About Street Racing Put Hollywood in the Fast Lane | The Rundown
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November 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
How did a film many assumed would be a clunker spawn a $7B franchise and reshape Hollywood? @theglobeandmail.com's @hertzbarry.bsky.social, author of "Welcome to the Family," breaks down the Fast & Furious phenomenon with @colinellis81.bsky.social
NUREMBERG is a cross between the Alec Baldwin miniseries Nuremberg and the Alec Baldwin sitcom 30 Rock. Regrettably, this new film features zero Alec Baldwin content. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
Courtroom thriller Nuremberg is guilty on all counts – with the exception of Russell Crowe
Crowe is weirdly perfect as Hitler’s right-hand man
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November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
NUREMBERG is a cross between the Alec Baldwin miniseries Nuremberg and the Alec Baldwin sitcom 30 Rock. Regrettably, this new film features zero Alec Baldwin content. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
MARTY SUPREME: When Abel Ferrera is your most traditional supporting actor, you know you’ve got all-time “where’d they find that guy???” epic on your hands. Spiritually and thematically, the best Hanukkah movie ever made. (Also: The Safdies really love Tokyo sports tournaments.)
November 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
MARTY SUPREME: When Abel Ferrera is your most traditional supporting actor, you know you’ve got all-time “where’d they find that guy???” epic on your hands. Spiritually and thematically, the best Hanukkah movie ever made. (Also: The Safdies really love Tokyo sports tournaments.)
Tune in tonight @tvotoday.bsky.social!
How did a movie about a group of street racers become one of the biggest movie franchises in history? @theglobeandmail.com film critic @hertzbarry.bsky.social, author of "Welcome to the Family," discusses the remarkable rise of "The Fast and The Furious" with @colinellis81.bsky.social tonight at 8pm
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Tune in tonight @tvotoday.bsky.social!
Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell's MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL closes out (or maybe expands) the Audrey Benac cinematic universe with tremendous ambition and haunting mystery. A revealing, rich coda for Canadian film's most rigorously obsessive collaborators. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
Canadian classical-music drama Measures for a Funeral is a symphony of obsession
Director Sofia Bohdanowicz seems well aware she is offering up a puzzle whose pieces aren’t intended to neatly lock
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November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell's MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL closes out (or maybe expands) the Audrey Benac cinematic universe with tremendous ambition and haunting mystery. A revealing, rich coda for Canadian film's most rigorously obsessive collaborators. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
DIE MY LOVE underwent edits between its Cannes premiere and this week's theatrical release this week. But whatever changed (and I couldn't clock much) didn't fix a facile exercise in endurance – The Emperor’s New Clothes of naked-for-naked sake acting. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
Jennifer Lawrence goes feral for nothing in facile psychological drama Die My Love
In a more controlled and less punishing film, Lawrence’s deeply committed performance would be the discussion of the year
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November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
DIE MY LOVE underwent edits between its Cannes premiere and this week's theatrical release this week. But whatever changed (and I couldn't clock much) didn't fix a facile exercise in endurance – The Emperor’s New Clothes of naked-for-naked sake acting. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
NEW: Good-ish news for Canada's cultural sector in 2025 Federal Budget, including $150M over 3 years to Telefilm (but not long-promised permanent funding increase), $150M for CBC to "strengthen its mandate" (but no update on 15% budget cut instructed earlier in year), and $26.1M over 3 years to NFB.
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
NEW: Good-ish news for Canada's cultural sector in 2025 Federal Budget, including $150M over 3 years to Telefilm (but not long-promised permanent funding increase), $150M for CBC to "strengthen its mandate" (but no update on 15% budget cut instructed earlier in year), and $26.1M over 3 years to NFB.
PREDATOR: BADLANDS doesn’t bleed. But we can still kill it, if we band together. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
In the weirdly bloodless Predator: Badlands, whoever wins, the audience loses
Director Dan Trachtenberg plays things safe in an anemic effort to broaden the normally R-rated franchise
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November 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
PREDATOR: BADLANDS doesn’t bleed. But we can still kill it, if we band together. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
I had a blast talking all things FAST & FURIOUS (including a very interesting discussion of Brian and Mia’s favourite restaurant) with the 2 Fast 2 Forever podcast ahead of WELCOME TO THE FAMILY’s Nov. 25 pub date. Fastest 106-minute listen of your life, guaranteed 💨 www.cageclub.me/the-fast-and...
The Fast and the Furious (Lap 16) | 2 Fast 2 Forever: The Fast & Furious Podcast
We're back and kicking off Lap 16 with Barry Hertz (author of Welcome to the Family) to talk about The Fast and the Furious!
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November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I had a blast talking all things FAST & FURIOUS (including a very interesting discussion of Brian and Mia’s favourite restaurant) with the 2 Fast 2 Forever podcast ahead of WELCOME TO THE FAMILY’s Nov. 25 pub date. Fastest 106-minute listen of your life, guaranteed 💨 www.cageclub.me/the-fast-and...
We’ll always have Ontario’s Ring of Fire
November 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
We’ll always have Ontario’s Ring of Fire
We are all Doug swallowing a bee
November 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
We are all Doug swallowing a bee
Toronto tomorrow morning, either way
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Toronto tomorrow morning, either way
All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun and the Max Fischer Players www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague is a breathless but flinty ode to Jean-Luc Godard
Disposable lark of a movie betrays Linklater’s well-publicized appreciation and understanding of Godard’s sensibilities
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October 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun and the Max Fischer Players www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
On Nov. 25, Toronto has a new Family Day: Join me and @elamin.bsky.social at @hotdocs.bsky.social for a ride-or-die evening full of Vin and vigor as we discuss my new book WELCOME TO THE FAMILY: THE EXPLOSIVE STORY BEHIND FAST & FURIOUS. Tickets: hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil...
The Globe and Mail’s Barry Hertz: Welcome To The Family | Hot Docs
Join The Globe and Mail’s Barry Hertz for the launch of his new book about the explosive Fast & Furious franchise
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October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
On Nov. 25, Toronto has a new Family Day: Join me and @elamin.bsky.social at @hotdocs.bsky.social for a ride-or-die evening full of Vin and vigor as we discuss my new book WELCOME TO THE FAMILY: THE EXPLOSIVE STORY BEHIND FAST & FURIOUS. Tickets: hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil...
Vancouver’s cinema scene gets its own Westwood Fox Village Theatre moment as Park Theatre, which Cineplex was set to abandon Oct. 26, will be taken over by @riotheatre.bsky.social team alongside private investors including Osgood Perkins, Mike Flanagan, Sean Baker & Finn Wolfhard.
October 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Vancouver’s cinema scene gets its own Westwood Fox Village Theatre moment as Park Theatre, which Cineplex was set to abandon Oct. 26, will be taken over by @riotheatre.bsky.social team alongside private investors including Osgood Perkins, Mike Flanagan, Sean Baker & Finn Wolfhard.
Some say this was all foretold
October 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Some say this was all foretold
So many babies about to be conceived on the Gardiner
October 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
So many babies about to be conceived on the Gardiner
On Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind, or Ocean's Unleavened. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
The Mastermind is a droll art-heist film fit to be lifted from the Louvre
The movie skips over the adrenaline rush of a high-stakes score to wrestle with the more complicated comedown
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October 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
On Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind, or Ocean's Unleavened. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE finally gets a theatrical release date: Feb. 13, 2026. (Unless Matt and Jay go back in time and Butterfly Effect a new release strategy altogether.)
October 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE finally gets a theatrical release date: Feb. 13, 2026. (Unless Matt and Jay go back in time and Butterfly Effect a new release strategy altogether.)
SPINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE is a loss for the Boss. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is a loss for the Boss
Director Scott Cooper’s approach mimics Springsteen’s own minimalist vision for his album Nebraska, but when you strip your story down, you’re sometimes left with nothing much at all
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October 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
SPINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE is a loss for the Boss. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...
Ontario should build its own Ticketmaster rival. Totally analogue, box offices located only inside Eglinton LRT stations. Every event is April Wine. No cash accepted, just Ford Bucks. Etc.
October 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Ontario should build its own Ticketmaster rival. Totally analogue, box offices located only inside Eglinton LRT stations. Every event is April Wine. No cash accepted, just Ford Bucks. Etc.