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1 week ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Neal Pollack

This post marks the end of my seven-year tenure as editor-in-chief of Book and Film Globe. I, Neal Pollack, the Greatest Living American Writer, am leaving the only job I’ve had this century to become Senior Editor of The U.S. edition of The Spectator, the world’s oldest magazine. It’s exciting and terrifying and also definitive proof that you can reinvent and revive your career after you receive your AARP card. What a run we’ve had here.

1 week ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

Fifty years ago, the original summer blockbuster stoked terror from screens across a country where even the most devoted moviegoers barely knew the name Steven Spielberg. Faster than you can yell “Shark!”, Jaws propelled the 27-year-old director to fame even as it made people afraid to go into the water. Like a lot of B-movies before and since its June 20, 1975, release, Jaws dared audiences to ask whether the monster or certain of the humans who strut across the screen are more grotesque.

1 week ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Michael Washburn

On the 50th anniversary of ‘Jaws,’ we look at the intriguing literary persona of Robert Shaw, one of its stars

1 week ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Neal Pollack

‘Materialists’, written and directed by Celine Song, is technically  a romantic comedy, but the movie neglects to include much humor. It feels strangely sour and grumpy, as though it were an adaptation of an article by a New York Times writer going through a particularly traumatic breakup. Song seems to want to make a statement on The Way We Live Now, but Materialists is oddly out of touch, and often seems like it takes place in an alternate reality.

2 weeks ago | bookandfilmglobe.com | Scott Gold

Apple TV+ is on a serious sci-fi bender these days, and with the success of original projects like Severance, Silo, Foundation and Dark Matter, it seems as though they’re unwilling to let down the throttle. And now, adding to that frothy fray comes “Murderbot,” based on the award-winning and beloved novels by Martha Wells, currently taking up residence in the Apple streaming neighborhood, and it’s a welcome one, indeed.