Book and Film Globe Podcast

Oct 18 2024 93 ep. 2

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Everyone’s favorite literature and pop culture site is now a podcast. Entertaining, enlightening chat about books, film, streaming TV, and more with Neal Pollack, editor of Book and Film Globe and its top writers. Pollack is the author of ten semi-bestselling books of fiction and nonfiction, including Jewball, Never Mind the Pollacks, Downward-Facing Death, and the memoirs Alternadad and Pothead: My Life as a Marijuana Addict in the Age of Legal Weed.

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BFG Podcast #170: 'Saturday Night,' "English Teacher,' and 'Megalopolis'

Oct 18 2024 39 mins

Art the Clown from 'Terrifier' three could not join host Neal Pollack for this week's BFG podcast because of various disgusting commitments, but Stephen Garrett is always available. He stops by the Pod Dome to talk about 'Saturday Night,' Jason Reitman's ode to the opening night of Saturday Night Live. Stephen liked the film, he enjoyed its ramshackle "let's put on a show" vibe and

BFG Podcast #169: 'Joker: Folie A Deux' and 'Nobody Wants This'

Oct 10 2024 37 mins

"I have never been so happy to see a film flop at the box office," host Neal Pollack says of 'Joker: Folie a Deux,' which he discusses on this week's podcast with film critic Stephen Garrett. Stephen is a little kinder to the film than Neal is, but he agrees that not much in this movie works. Neal finds the courtroom sequences boring and cliched, the musical sequences uninspired, a

BFG Podcast #168: 'The Penguin', 'The Substance,' and 'Agatha All Along'

Oct 02 2024 39 mins

Pop goes the podcast this week as Neal Pollack welcomes Scott Gold to talk about two very different comic book shows now streaming. First up, there's 'The Penguin,' starring Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti. Scott was curious as to whether or not a Gotham-set show without Batman would work. But both he and Neal have totally bought into The Penguin's gritty mix of street-level acti

BFG Podcast #167: Special Guests Elisa Albert and Meghan Daum:

Sep 26 2024 40 mins

It's a podcast ripped straight from the headlines this week, or at least the extremely-online headlines. Elisa Albert joins Neal Pollack to discuss the recent cancellation of a book panel at the Albany Book Festival. Two young writers didn't want to appear with Albert because she's a "Zionist." This is the latest and most appalling act of antisemitism yet in the literary world. Eve

BFG Podcast #166: 'The Rings of Power' Season 2, 'Reagan,' and a report from the Toronto Film Festival

Sep 19 2024 41 mins

This week, our hero and host, Neal Pollack, welcomes back Greg Ford to the podcast to talk about 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.' It's the second season of The Rings of Power, and the makers of that show have doubled down on what was bad about the first season: Boring characters, slow storylines, and nonsensical world building. For resident Tolkien fans, it's a real dis

BFG Podcast #165: 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,' 'Strange Darling,' and 'Kaos'

Sep 12 2024 39 mins

BFG Podcast! BFG Podcast! BFG Podcast! Host Neal Pollack once again summons up the world's finest pop-culture critics to talk about culture high and low this week. First up is Stephen Garrett, appearing from the film-critic underworld to discuss Tim Burton's new hit sequel 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.' It's messy and too stuffed with exposition, but both Neal and Stephen think it's ki

BFG Podcast #164: Two very different takes on American Judaism: 'Between the Temples' and the 'Hollywoodland' exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Sep 05 2024 38 mins

It's a Jewish-themed episode of the BFG Podcast this week. What else is new, you're asking, and you will be right to some extent, but that's just how the dreidel fell, content-wise. First up, host Neal Pollack visits the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, and finds the Jewish content extremely wanting, particularly in the 'Hollywoodland' exhibit, which purports to be

Book and Film Globe Podcast #163: ‘Alien: Romulus’ and’ It Ends with Us,’ on this week’s chart-topping pod

Aug 21 2024 35 mins

We’re charting! Did you know that this podcast regularly earns a spot on the lists of top entertainment podcasts in several countries, including Sweden, Gambia, Poland, Australia and Canada? It’s true. The Book and Film Globe podcast has even cracked the Top 200 in the US a couple times, as well as UK. We are grateful to all our fans, everywhere—thanks for listening.We’ve g

BFG Podcast #162: 'The Decameron' and an interview with Arthur Bradford, the director of 'To Be Destroyed'

Aug 16 2024 36 mins

Podcast host Neal Pollack revisits his roots this week as he interviews his old friend Arthur Bradford, the director of 'To Be Destroyed', a new short documentary about the efforts of the school district of Rapid City, South Dakota, to ban a bunch of books, including the novel 'The Circle' by Dave Eggers.If you mess with Dave Eggers, you'd best not miss. And they did miss. Arthur w

BFG Podcast #161: 'Trap,' 'Time Bandits,' and the soft lit-world war on "Zionist" authors

Aug 07 2024 41 mins

The fourth-most-popular entertainment news podcast in The Gambia returns this week with a great dog days of summer episode. First up, host Neal Pollack welcomes Sharyn Vane for another important eat-your-veggies segment. Apparently, the literary world has decided that apolitical writer Gabrielle Zevin, author of the bestselling 'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' is a "Zionist"