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Bill Janovitz’s "Let the Stories Be Told" shows The Cars weren’t just radio kings, they were quietly subversive, glitchy, & weird.
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‘Let the Stories Be Told’ is a Dazzling Drive Through The Cars’ Career - Book and Film Globe
There’s simultaneously more and less than you’d expect to the story behind The Cars. And Bill Janowitz is perfectly positioned to tell the difference and
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September 30, 2025 at 12:58 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...
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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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Can you show 24 hours in a paramedic’s world — exhaustion, life-and-death, absurdity — and still land funny? Code 3 gives it a shot. : bookandfilmglobe.com/film/in-the-... #FilmOverview #Ambulance #ComedyInCrisis #BFGTakes
In the Ambulance, Comedy on Life Support - Book and Film Globe
Making a decent feature length film that also accurately showcases the difficulty of a real world job is tougher than it sounds. The marketing for Code 3
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September 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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August streaming roundup:
@netflix.com Wednesday S2 (Aug 6), Hostage,
Hulu King of the Hill reboot (Aug 4), Alien: Earth
@primevideo.bsky.social The Pickup (Aug 6), Butterfly
& @criterionchannel.bsky.social @streamonmax.bsky.social
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Everything Streaming August 2025! - Book and Film Globe
Everything That’s Streaming in August 2025 As we head into the heat domes of summer, most streaming services are offering slim pickins. Well, except for
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July 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Fawlty Towers is about to turn 50. We revisit the cringe, chaos & comedic genius that made these 12 short episodes Britain's finest.
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Don’t Mention the Anniversary - Book and Film Globe
For decades at the end of the last millennium our family gatherings would be marked by repeat viewings of Fawlty Towers episodes taped on deteriorating
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July 28, 2025 at 1:26 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?
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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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In Long Distance: Stories, Ayşegül Savaş captures the hush of exile and the fragile threads between strangers. Short fiction with a long aftertaste.
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Lovers in Exile - Book and Film Globe
Turkish writer Așeygül Savaș, riding high on the success of her novels Walking on the Ceiling, White on White, and The Anthropologists, and her nonfiction
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August 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Which are scarier, xenomorphs, boardroom villains or biotech nightmares? Alien: Earth, from Noah Hawley and Hulu/FX. bookandfilmglobe.com/television/o...
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On Earth, Everyone Can Hear You Scream - Book and Film Globe
With the release of Alien: Earth, now streaming on FX/Hulu, any respectable sci-fi fan feels obligated to ask: Is it really possible to breathe new life
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August 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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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
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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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The Colonel and the King shines a light on Elvis’s notorious manager. @gilliangaarwriter.bsky.social talks to Peter Guralnick about the myths & who Colonel Parker really was. @hachetteus.bsky.social bookandfilmglobe.com/books/the-re...
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Elvis and the Real Colonel Parker - Book and Film Globe
The standard view of Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager, is that he was a shyster, a conniving conman who manipulated Presley as he saw fit,
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August 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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10 Books for August including books from Nicola Sturgeon, Louis Sachar, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and R. F. Kuang (Aug 26)
Plus others.
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Ten Books for August 2025 - Book and Film Globe
From the scores of books released in the U.S. this coming month, BFG has plucked a selection of 10 that pique our curiosity or the curiosity of others.
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August 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Propane still powers his soul. Mike Judge's King of the Hill reboots with Hank back in Arlen for season 14. Is it worth dusting off your propane grills?
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Back in Texas With the Propane He Loves - Book and Film Globe
In this era of endless IP recycling, even King of the Hill — the most low-key of adult animation classics — is getting the reboot treatment. On paper,
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July 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show turned queer camp into ritual, with “Don’t Dream It, Be It” as its manifesto.
At 50, audiences still scream and dance in its glow:
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Give Yourself Over to Absolute Pleasure. - Book and Film Globe
Anti — Say it! — pation! The way you beat the other girls — With a whip! A toast! — Cue the mass tossing of bread slices. For better or worse, The Rocky
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August 20, 2025 at 5:46 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.
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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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October brings chills, thrills, and bingeable upgrades:
Usher, City of Angels, The Killer on Netflix; strong Hulu & Prime drops too.
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Everything That’s Streaming in October 2025 - Book and Film Globe
Almost every streaming service has a horror highlight this month, whether that’s a pre-teen vampire who just wants to sing; fictional interpretations of
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September 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Awake by Jen Hatmaker is “losing everything you thought you were so you can discover what you actually are.” Faith unravels. Identity resets. Community rearranged.
If memoirs were rebirths...
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‘Awake’ and Thriving - Book and Film Globe
Way before Awake, I first read Jen Hatmaker – where else? – on the Internet. Back in 2013, I didn’t know that she’d built a sizable following of women as
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September 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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What’s Streaming in September 2025? We buried the lede! A new season of Slow Horses coming, and some other stuff.
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August 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Netflix’s Aema isn’t just steamy, it’s a lesson in agency and censorship. Through fictionalized eyes, it revisits Madame Aema, the real 1982 erotic smash that changed South Korean cinema.
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The Racy Film That Rocked South Korea - Book and Film Globe
In 1982, conservative South Korean society was surprised by Madame Aema, a highly erotic film directed by In-yeob Jeong that pushed the theatrical
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August 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Alex Russell’s 'Lurker' is showbiz obsession turned thriller: a paranoid, brutal mirror of fame, co-dependency, and parasocial hunger. Lurker earns 5-stars from our latest review.
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A Fascinating Study of Showbiz Obsession - Book and Film Globe
What’s the difference between love and obsession? Alex Russell’s Lurker turns that question on its head, delivering a rattling character study that blurs
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August 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Fit for TV retraffics America's obesity fixation and The Biggest Loser’s 18-season buffet of humiliation and “miracles.” Trainers, producers, and contestants are served raw under the lens.
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Eat This Doc - Book and Film Globe
I didn’t watch a second of NBC's The Biggest Loser, the phenomenally successful reality TV show which challenged its obese participants to lose alarming
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August 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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'Weapons' is a Grimm fairytale turned surreal, messy, unforgettable. Zach Cregger melts suburban bones in this moonlight allegory.
Julia Garner, Josh Brolin & Alden Ehrenreich hold a mirror to the absurd.
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Beware the Darkness - Book and Film Globe
“Beware the darkness,” sings George Harrison near the beginning of Zach Cregger’s devilishly strange Weapons, an eerie freak-out with too many contrived
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August 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Drebin lives. Liam Neeson goes full deadpan in the 2025 Naked Gun reboot. This time with gadget gags, tech‑villains, and Pamela Anderson as Beth. Our review weighs nostalgia vs. freshness:
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Son of a (Naked) Gun, Drebin's Back! - Book and Film Globe
The Naked Gun is cliched, dumb, and derivative. Which is to say that it’s pretty much perfect. From the moment a bank robber blows a safe box in the first
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July 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM