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5 months ago

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

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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5 months ago

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

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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5 months ago

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

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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5 months ago

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

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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6 months ago

‘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

Bill Janovitz’s "Let the Stories Be Told" shows The Cars weren’t just radio kings, they were quietly subversive, glitchy, & weird.
Our review → bookandfilmglobe.com/books/let-th...
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6 months ago

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

October brings chills, thrills, and bingeable upgrades:
Usher, City of Angels, The Killer on Netflix; strong Hulu & Prime drops too.
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6 months ago

‘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

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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6 months ago

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

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

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7 months ago

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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7 months ago

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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7 months ago

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

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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7 months ago

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

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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7 months ago

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

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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7 months ago

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

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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7 months ago

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

'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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7 months ago

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

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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8 months ago

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,

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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8 months ago

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.

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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8 months ago

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

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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8 months ago

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

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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8 months ago

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,

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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8 months ago

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

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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