McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine is full of hysterical, horrible remorse — John Malkovich & Sam Rockwell as aging CIA killers on Easter Island. Dark, savage, unexpectedly tender. #WildHorseNine #FilmReview bookandfilmglobe.com/film/wi…

What was Hitchcock's secret? A new book argues it wasn't just technique but smart opportunism - he often relied on Cary Grant and James Stewart as his secret weapons. See how casting shaped his suspense. @KentuckyPress #Hitchcock #FilmHistory bookandfilmglobe.com/books/w…

Dead-End Job turns workplace horror into a blunt mirror of Korea’s gig economy and debt crisis. Spider’s infernal temp gigs pay obscene wages for survival — and expose who pays the cost. #DeadEndJob #Kdrama bookandfilmglobe.com/streami…

Ben Katchor’s Hotel & Farm is half hotel, half farm, all surreal—an absurdist graphic novel that rewards patience and punishes expectations. Ready for nonsense? #Comics #GraphicNovel bookandfilmglobe.com/books/h…

Apparently, I'm not done with the New York Film Festival. At @BookPlusFilm, I was invited onto its podcast to talk about #NYFF64, especially focusing on BEHEMOTH! and TENDER LOVING CARE. Give it a listen (and feel free to tell me how awkward I sound): bookandfilmglobe.com/podcast…

BFG Podcast #317: Neal, Stephen & Kenji on Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes doc You Can See Everything, NYFF picks (Mike Leigh, Tony Gilroy) and Amanda Seyfried surprises. Hot takes await. #BFGPodcast #NYFF @thenealpollack bookandfilmglobe.com/podcast…

Bill Gates paid for the rights to seven physics lectures from 1964 so that anyone on Earth could watch them for free, and almost nobody has pressed play. They were given by Richard Feynman. In November 1964 Feynman gave Cornell's Messenger Lectures. He planned six lectures for a general audience, then added a seventh. The series was called The Character of Physical Law. The BBC filmed it. A year later he won the Nobel Prize. The films went around colleges for years, and then disappeared from circulation in the 1980s. Gates had watched them at Harvard. He later said he "fell in love" with them. He has reportedly told people that if he'd seen them earlier, he might have become a physicist instead of starting a software company. In 2009 he paid privately for the rights, from the Feynman estate, the BBC and Cornell. He never said how much. Microsoft Research put them online for free and called it Project Tuva, after the tiny republic in Central Asia that Feynman spent his last years trying to visit and never reached. When the BBC license ran out in 2021, Gates renewed it. Here's what's inside: > The Law of Gravitation > The Relation of Mathematics and Physics > The Great Conservation Principles > Symmetry in Physical Law > The Distinction of Past and Future > Probability and Uncertainty > Seeking New Laws The last one has the line every science teacher quotes. If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong. Gates said his 10-year-old son could follow them. They're still free today on Caltech's Feynman Lectures website. One of the richest people alive paid to make the best physics teacher of the century free. The only thing left to pay is about seven hours. Which would you watch first: gravity, or why time only moves forward?

Wicker is a randy, darkly comic fairy-tale rom-com - Olivia Colman & Alexander Skarsgård deliver a strange, soulful love story that bites back at small-town patriarchy. #Wicker #RomCom bookandfilmglobe.com/comedy/…

From the Grateful Dead to Broadway, Janet Malcolm to AI-era corporate power: November's new books cover a lot of ground. Featuring releases from @randomhouse, @riverheadbooks, @torbooks and @wwnorton. bookandfilmglobe.com/books/1… #Books #NewReleases

November's reading list is here! 📚 New books from @Scalzi, @maddow, @levarburton, Gary Shteyngart, Louise Kennedy & more. 16 picks spanning fiction, politics, sci-fi and memoir. bookandfilmglobe.com/books/1… #NovemberBooks #BookRecommendations

Norm was a vibe. Our review of Judd Apatow’s new Norm doc dives into his maddeningly original anti-humor, the Moth Joke, and that unforgettable Bob Saget roast. #NormMacdonald #Netflix bookandfilmglobe.com/film/no…

Giant squids, cringeworthy Spanish, and baffling plots — our take on Animals and Below says @netflix has traded daring for conveyor-belt content. Where now? #Netflix #Streaming bookandfilmglobe.com/netflix…

RIP Patrick Stewart. What an actor. I still can’t believe he agreed to do this scene. And he didn’t even mind when I ruined every take. Legend.

What's streaming in November? From Amy Poehler's Michael Schur comedy and the end of Yellowjackets to holiday rom‑coms and big @Netflix drops — @JakeHarris4 guide has your Thanksgiving binge list. #StreamingGuide #WhatToWatch bookandfilmglobe.com/televis…

Nine spooky books for your Halloweekend from @han_soul_o , cozy mysteries, body horror, witchy romance, and terrifying nonfiction. Which will you haunt your weekend with? #HalloweenReads #SpookySeason bookandfilmglobe.com/books/n…

Ali G's back - Sacha Baron Cohen brings outrageous pranks in Ali G: Who Iz I? We love the laughs but wonder when satire becomes cruelty. #AliG #SachaBaronCohen bookandfilmglobe.com/comedy/…

John Wilson from @howtojohnwilson turns The History of Concrete into an existential comedy — cracks, grief, sand mandalas, and the BQE. A documentary masterpiece that’s anything but boring. #Documentary #JohnWilson bookandfilmglobe.com/film/a-…

Stephen Garrett, quite possibly the smartest film critic out there, gave You Can See Everything a ho-hum 3/5 stars for @BookPlusFilm. “An absurdist documentary for our absurdist time.” bookandfilmglobe.com/film/yo…

New from me in @BookPlusFilm: Matt Singer's "Funny Business" was a lot sadder than I thought it was going to be. We used to have R-rated comedies in theaters all the time! bookandfilmglobe.com/books/f…

Matt Singer's Funny Business is a funny, heartbreaking look at the Frat Pack era - and why R-rated studio comedies went extinct. A must-read for comedy nerds. @PutnamBooks #FunnyBusiness #ComedyHistory bookandfilmglobe.com/books/f…