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Book and Film Globe Podcast — 130 episodes
BFG Podcast #6: Michael Jackson, Ian McKellen, Anne Hathaway, Their Films and More
BFG Podcast #5: Spring Film Roundup
BFG Podcast #4: Diagnosing 'The Pitt' Season 2
BFG Podcast #3: 'The Forsytes,' 'Age of Attraction,' 'Survivor,' and, of course, 'Fackham Hall'
BFG Podcast #2: SXSW, ‘Project Hail Mary,’ and Guy Fieri's 'Tournament of Champions'
BFG Podcast #1: Who Will Win the Oscars? A Special BFG Podcast
BFG Podcast #200: 'The Phoenician Scheme,' 'Ballerina,' and A Final Wrap-Up
BFG Podcast #199: 'Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning,' Season 2 of 'The Rehearsal,' and a report from Cannes
BFG Podcast #198: 'Thunderbolts,' 'The Four Seasons,' and Tariff Threats Hit Hollywood
BFG Podcast #197: 'Andor' Season 2, 'The Accountant 2,' 'The Shrouds,' and a Resurgent Box Office
BFG Podcast #196: 'Sinners' and 'Black Mirror' Season 7
BFG Podcast #195: The State of American Moviegoing and 'Drop' (Unrelated)
BFG Podcast #194: 'A Minecraft Movie,' Museum Budget Cuts, and Remembering Val Kilmer
BFG Podcast #193: 'The Studio,' 'Death of A Unicorn,' and Bill Burr
BFG Podcast #192: The State of Food TV and the Politics of 'Love Is Blind'
BFG Podcast #191: 'Black Bag' and a Roundup of the "Last" SXSW
BFG Podcast #190: 'Mickey 17' and 'Daredevil: Born Again'
BFG Podcast #189: The 90-Day Theatrical Window, Amazon Buys James Bond, and a Tribute to Gene Hackman
BFG Podcast #188: 'The White Lotus' Season 3, 'The Pitt', and an Oscar Preview
BFG Podcast #187: 'Captain America: Brave New World' and Big Changes at the Kennedy Center
BFG Podcast #186: 'I'm Still Here,' 'Companion,' and 'Severance' Season 2
BFG Podcast #186: 'I'm Still Here,' 'Companion,' and 'Severance' Season 2
BFG Podcast #185: Hollywood AI Controversies
BFG Podcast #184: 'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew;' The Movies of 1975
BFG Podcast #183: 'Wolf Man' and an Appreciation of David Lynch
BFG Podcast #182: 'The Brutalist' and TV Crossovers
BFG Podcast #181: 'Squid Game 2' and 'Pop Culture Jeopardy!'
BFG Podcast #180: A Complete Babyratu
BFG Podcast #179: The Best Movies of 2024
BFG Podcast #178: 2024 TV Year In Review
BFG Podcast #177: 'Dune: Prophecy' and 'Queer'
BFG Podcast #176: 'Breath of Fire,' 'A Man on the Inside,' and a plague of people misbehaving in movie theaters
BFG Podcast #175: 'Wicked,' 'Terrifier', and 'Gladiator II'
BFG Podcast #174: 'Anora,' and 'A Real Pain.' Plus Meghan Daum stops by to talk to Neal Pollack about writers leaving Twitter and about the rise of Justine Bateman
BFG Podcast #173: Post-Election Special - The rise of the Austin podcast bros and the fall of Hollywood
BFG Podcast #172: Writers in the age of AI, and writers at war over Israel
BFG Podcast #171: October Movie Roundup - 'Conclave,' 'Venom: The Last Dance,' 'Smile 2,' 'The Apprentice,' and 'We Live In Time'
BFG Podcast #170: 'Saturday Night,' "English Teacher,' and 'Megalopolis'
BFG Podcast #169: 'Joker: Folie A Deux' and 'Nobody Wants This'
BFG Podcast #168: 'The Penguin', 'The Substance,' and 'Agatha All Along'
BFG Podcast #167: Special Guests Elisa Albert and Meghan Daum:
BFG Podcast #166: 'The Rings of Power' Season 2, 'Reagan,' and a report from the Toronto Film Festival
BFG Podcast #165: 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,' 'Strange Darling,' and 'Kaos'
BFG Podcast #164: Two very different takes on American Judaism: 'Between the Temples' and the 'Hollywoodland' exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Book and Film Globe Podcast #163: ‘Alien: Romulus’ and’ It Ends with Us,’ on this week’s chart-topping pod
BFG Podcast #162: 'The Decameron' and an interview with Arthur Bradford, the director of 'To Be Destroyed'
BFG Podcast #161: 'Trap,' 'Time Bandits,' and the soft lit-world war on "Zionist" authors
BFG Podcast #160: 'Deadpool & Wolverine' 'The Bright Sword,' and 'The Book of Everything'
BFG Podcast #159: 'Twisters,' 'Horizon,' 'Hillbilly Elegy,' and "The Late, Great, Hannibal Lecter"
BFG Podcast #158: 'Longlegs,' 'Fly Me To The Moon,' and the Alice Munro scandal
BFG Podcast #157: 'MaXXXine', 'Axel F,' and the J.K. Rowling/'Lolita' "controversy"
BFG Podcast #156: 'A Quiet Place: Day One,' 'Kinds of Kindness,' and a new season of 'The Bear'
BFG Podcast #155: 'The Bikeriders' and new seasons of 'House of the Dragon' and 'The Boys'
BFG Podcast #154: 'The Acolyte,' 'Inside Out 2,' and 'Dancing For The Devil'
BFG Podcast #153: Richard Rushfield - Special guest and columnist for 'The Ankler' discusses the "catastrophic" summer box office and why he hate-watches 'Hacks,' among many other topics
BFG Podcast #152: 'Furiosa,' 'Hit Man,' and 'Back To Black'
BFG Podcast #151: 'Megalopolis,' a report from Cannes, 'Fallout,' and a book on nuclear war
BFG Podcast #150: For our 150th! episode, we talk about 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,' 'The Fall Guy,' and 'Sugar'
BFG Podcast #149: 'Challengers,' writers intimidate PEN America, and a new memoir from Salman Rushdie
BFG Podcast #148: Recorded live at the Book House in Long Branch, New Jersey! We talk about 'Civil War' and 'Girls 5Eva'
BFG Podcast #147: 'Monkey Man,' 'Ripley', and 'X-Men '97'
BFG Podcast #146: 'Godzilla x Kong,' '3 Body Problem,' and 'Guy Fieri's Tournament of Champions'
BFG Podcast #145: 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,' 'Top Chef,' and 'Road House'
BFG Podcast #144: 'Love Lies Bleeding,' 'Drive Away Dolls,' and Antisemitism in the lit world
BFG Podcast #143: 'Spaceman,' 'The Tourist,' and an Oscar rant
BFG Podcast #142: 'Dune 2' and 'Shogun'
BFG Podcast #141: We talk about J. Lo, Bob Marley, and Truman Capote
BFG Podcast #140: 'Madame Web,' 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith,' and the return of Jon Stewart
BFG Podcast #139: 'Griselda' and an Oscar preview
BFG Podcast #138: 'True Detective: Night Country,' 'Argylle,' and the Alec Baldwin shooting case
BFG Podcast #137: The 'Barbie' snub, 'You Are What You Eat,' and a report from the Sundance Film Festival
BFG Podcast #136: 'The Zone of Interest,' 'Echo,' and AI George Carlin
BFG Podcast #135: 'American Fiction,' the 'Mean Girls' musical and a regenerated 'Doctor Who'
BFG Podcast #134: Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais, 'Reacher' Season 2, and 'Letterkenny'
BFG Podcast #133: 'Maestro,' 'Ferrari', and 'The Iron Claw'
BFG Podcast #132: 'Poor Things' and our best and worst TV of 2023 roundtable
BFG Podcast #131: 'Wonka,' 'Godzilla Minus One,' and 'The Boy and the Heron'
BFG Podcast #130: 'Dream Scenario,' Julia Child, and Hallmark Christmas Movies
BFG Podcast #129: 'Saltburn' and 'May December'
BFG Podcast #128: 'Napoleon,' 'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,' and 'Julia'
BFG Podcast #127: 'The Marvels,' 'The Holdovers,' Nate Bargatze, and Taylor Tomlinson
BFG Podcast #126: Neal and Stephen At The Movies: 'Priscilla,' 'The Killer,' 'Anatomy of a Fall,' and 'Fair Play'
BFG Podcast #125: 'Five Nights At Freddy's,' 'Slayers,' and the cowardice of writers and entertainers who refuse to condemn Hamas
BFG Podcast #124: 'Killers of the Flower Moon,' 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' and Scholastic Book Fair diversity boxes
BFG Podcast #123: Taylor Swift, the Talking Heads, 'The Morning Show,' and Season 2 of 'Loki'
BFG Podcast #122: Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl, 'Reservation Dogs,' and 'Gen V'
BFG Podcast #121: 'The Creator,' Fantastic Fest, and the end of the WGA Strike
BFG Podcast #120: 'One Piece,' the cancellation of 'Winning Time,' and censorship in Canada
BFG Podcast #119: The politics of bringing a show back during a Hollywood strike, a report from the Toronto International Film Festival, and a summer of drama around 'Yellowstone'--plus a review of 'Special Ops: Lioness'
BFG Podcast #118: 'The Wheel of Time' Season 2, 'Oldboy' restoration, and a visit to the Venice Film Festival
BFG Podcast #117: 'Telemarketers,' 'And Just Like That,' and football documentaries
BFG Podcast #116: 'Ashoka,' 'Bottoms,' and 'Gran Turismo'
BFG Podcast #115: 'Blue Beetle,' 'Strays,' and MovieTok
BFG Podcast #114: Taking photos in movies, censorship back in session, and 'Twisted Metal'
BFG Podcast #113: 'Mutant Mayhem,' 'Justified', and the 'British Miracle Meat'
BFG Podcast #112
BFG Podcast #111: 'Barbenheimer' and actors on strike
BFG Podcast #110: 'Mission: Impossible–Dead Reckoning, Part One,' 'The Witcher,' and Milan Kundera
BFG Podcast #109: 'Dial of Destiny,' 'The Bear' Season 2, and trouble at TCM
BFG Podcast #108: 'Asteroid City,' 'Black Mirror,' and 'Secret Invasion'
BFG Podcast #107: 'The Flash,' 'Elemental,' 'Outlander,' and Cormac McCarthy
BFG Podcast #106: 'Rise of the Beasts,' 'The Idol,' and censoring 'The French Connection'
BFG Podcast #105: 'Across the Spider-Verse,' 'The Little Mermaid', and 'I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson
BFG Podcast #104: Fast X, Jeopardy Masters, Silo
BFG Podcast #103: The WGA Strike, Little Richard, and 'Guardians of the Galaxy 3'
BFG Podcast #102: 'Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret,' 'Peter Pan and Wendy,' and 'Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies'
BFG Podcast #101: 'Beau Is Afraid,' Woody Allen Shut Out of Cannes, and Defunding Libraries
The 100th Episode of the BFG Podcast! Neal Pollack and friends discuss 'Renfield,' 'How to Blow Up A Pipeline,' and 'Beef'
BFG Podcast #099: 'Air,' and Clifton Duncan on Endless Hollywood and Broadway COVID Restrictions
BFG Podcast #098: 'Dungeons and Dragons,' 'Succession,' and Censoring Agatha Christie
BFG Podcast #097: 'John Wick Chapter 4,' 'Swarm,' and 'Party Down'
BFG Podcast #096: 'The Mandalorian Season 3', 'Shazam! Fury of the Gods,' and 'Top Chef World All-Stars'
BFG Podcast #095: 'History of the World Part 2' and Steven Marche
BFG Podcast #093: 'Cocaine Bear,' Censoring Roald Dahl, and the Decline of Sex in Movies
BFG Podcast #091: 'Magic Mike's Last Dance,' 'Poker Face', and 'Cunk on Earth'
BFG Podcast #092: 'Quantumania'
BFG Podcast #090: 'Knock at the Cabin' and an Oscar Preview
BFG Podcast #089: 'Women Talking,' 'That 90s Show,' 'Night Court,' and the Sundance Film Festival - Our critics give you the business
BFG Podcast #088: 'The Last of Us,' 'Velma,' 'House Party,' and 'A Man Called Otto'
BFG Podcast #087: Russell Banks, Aubrey Plaza, and 'The Rig'
BFG Podcast #086: 'White Noise,' 'M3GAN,' and 'Jack Ryan'
BFG Podcast #085: 'Glass Onion,' 'Babylon,' and '1923' - A new year, but the same great content
BFG Podcast #084: 'Avatar: The Way of Water,' and This Year's Best and Worst TV Shows
BFG #083: 'Wednesday,' 'Harry & Meghan,' and 'Jeanne Dielman
BFG Podcast #082
BFG Podcast #081: Holiday Special with 'The Menu,' 'The Peripheral,' 'Reboot' and 'Blockbuster'
BFG Podcast #081: Holiday Special with 'The Menu,' 'The Peripheral,' 'Reboot' and 'Blockbuster'
BFG Podcast #080: 'Wakanda Forever,' 'The White Lotus,' and 'Weird'
BFG Podcast #079: Bob Dylan, Interview With the Vampire, the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, and more
BFG Podcast #078: 'Derry Girls,' 'Triangle of Sadness,' 'Armageddon Time,' and 'Filmed in Brooklyn'