Stephen Garrett

New York

Staff Writer at Book and Film Globe

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2 days ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Stephen Macaulay |Jake Harris |Stephen Garrett

The always-maligned streamer has brought The Master’s movies to its platform, as well as to a 535-seat theater in Manhattan
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6 days ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Stephen Garrett

Genteel thriller The Phoenician Scheme is Wes Anderson’s most single-minded, plot-driven, self-mocking movie in years—a propulsive hoot that inevitably indulges but rarely dwells on precious tangents and eccentric caricatures.
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6 days ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Stephen Garrett

And other highlights from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival
What We Saw In Cannes

1 week ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Stephen Garrett

In a decision that made its awards audience erupt into a standing ovation, the Cannes Film Festival gave the Palme d’Or to Jafar Panahi’s secretly filmed It Was Just an Accident, the persecuted Iranian director’s blistering indictment of his home country’s enduringly oppressive regime. The drama, both bitterly comic and alarmingly severe, follows a former political prisoner who kidnaps and intends to kill a man that may or may not have been his interrogator in prison.
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1 week ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Stephen Garrett

New films from Spike Lee and Richard Linklater, plus all the prizewinners
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1 week ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Kenji Fujishima |Stephen Garrett

Jafar Panahi’s Government Has Banned Him From Filmmaking. But He Keeps Directing Movies.
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2 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Stephen Garrett

Impossible as it may seem, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning claims to be the ultimate chapter in impossibly unrelenting Tom Cruise’s eight-film character arc as Impossible Mission Force espionage agent Ethan Hunt. Just like its predecessors, The Final Reckoning is a full-throttle robotic rollercoaster ride as dogged and as insistent as its star. And it doubles as a swell, swole salute that gives Tom Terrific his flowers for services rendered along the way.
The Politics of Cannes

2 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Stephen Garrett

“It is my honor….to declare…THE 78th FESTIVAL DE CANNES TO BE OFFICIALLY OOOPPPEEEEENNNN!” bellowed Quentin Tarantino on the Opening Night of the Cannes Film Festival last week, dropping his best Michael Buffer imitation before literally dropping the mic and stomping off the stage in a stiff-armed robotic gait.
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2 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Stephen Garrett

This year’s festival is a platform for movies with a message
The Movie Business Is Tariff-ied

1 month 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?