Stephen Garrett

1 week ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Stephen Garrett

A bone-headed White House tariff that’s high on outrage and low on details? Must be another Monday in TrumpWorld. After declaring in his erratic uppercase-lowercase syntax that cinema has become a “National Security threat,” President Trump just slapped “a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands.” Does that mean co-productions or films made entirely overseas?

2 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Stephen Garrett

The arrival of The Accountant 2—filing a return nine years after its predecessor—is as unexpected as the fussy autistic bookkeeper-assassin who headlines it. But the brooding 2016 actioner The Accountant, a mild box office hit, has had a surprisingly robust home-video existence in that intervening decade. And that kind of afterlife still makes a persuasive impact on Hollywood’s IP actuarial tables.

2 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Stephen Garrett

He talks and talks for hours, wrestling with spiritual questions, but who are we supposed to be worshipping?

3 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Neal Pollack |Paula Shaffer |Stephen Garrett |Michael J. Giltz

Everyone gets an implant as we approach some sort of singularity

3 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Stephen Garrett

Sinners is the damndest mix of genres this side of Pulp Fiction. A bravura synthesis of unlikely bedfellows—a Jim Crow drama, a Chicago gangland thriller, a spooky vampire flick, an interracial love story, a time-tripping musical, a racial-identity epic, with hints of an evil-twin subplot—Ryan Coogler’s cinematic flip fantasia blasts clichés sideways in a gobsmacked brew of hellzapoppin’ invention. This is a studio movie?