The Book and Film Globe podcast returns this week with another fantastic episode. The world of American politics may be roiling, but we continue to cover the culture, because politics is downstream from culture, or something along those lines.

First, we travel north of the border, where Canadian literary society is in crisis after the Nobel Prize-winning writer Alice Munro finds herself posthumously embroiled in a terrible scandal. She essentially attempted to cover up the alleged sexual abuse of her own daughter. Host Neal Pollack and contributor Michael Washburn in no way condone Munro's actions, but they wonder why the literary world is so quick to pass judgment on someone who, when she died a couple of months ago, they hailed as the greatest short-story writer of all time. What are we actually doing here? The BFG podcast wants us all to slow our roll.

Stephen Garrett stops by to talk to Neal about the lousy space-race comedy 'Fly Me To The Moon,' though he balks when Neal refers to co-star Channing Tatum as a "himbo." It is highly unlikely that the government would have been able to set up a fake moon landing in an empty hangar on the site of the Apollo 11 launch. Neal spends a lot of time pointing out the outfits of Scarlett Johansson and her assistant, which is a real problem when you're talking about a movie about the moon landing. What a turkey.

However, we do recommend 'Longlegs,' or at least Pablo Gallaga does. Neal gets scared easily at movies, and Pablo tells him that Longlegs is, in fact scary. But it's scary in the way that 'Zodiac' is scary. Neal does not find Zodiac scary. Look, who knows, this is a horror movie. Pablo likes it. It's a huge hit. And we're on top of things here at BFG.

Enjoy this episode!

BFG Podcast #158: 'Longlegs,' 'Fly Me To The Moon,' and the Alice Munro scandal 42:04 Share

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BFG Podcast #158: 'Longlegs,' 'Fly Me To The Moon,' and the Alice Munro scandal