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Global Comment
- Posted on Thursday April 16, 2026
The Secret Agent is an elegiac, surreal, brutal yet hopeful, study of Brazil’s collective memory of life under the military dictatorship in the 1970s. The dreamlike fluidity of writer/director Kleber Mendonça’s third feature written under the far-right coercion of Jair Bolsonaro’s corrupt and fraudulent four-year presidency connects the joint trauma of a nation across the […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday April 15, 2026
After a three-year wait, adrenaline and boxing return to Netflix with the second season of Bloodhounds (사냥개들). Based on Jeong Chan’s acclaimed webtoon, this seven-episode season (each approximately an hour long) expands the universe of corruption and loyalty that captivated the world in 2023. Starring the charismatic duo of Woo Do-hwan and Lee Sang-yi, the […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday April 14, 2026
I resisted watching Love Story for a long time. The reaction of the Kennedy family and many other friends of John F Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy to the TV series put me off. The view of so many of their inner circle seemed to be that the portrayal of those two iconic figures […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday April 13, 2026
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don’t want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read / see / taste / place. It will be something different every week, but it will always be about […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Friday April 10, 2026
The title of Julie Forrest Wyman’s The Tallest Dwarf is a reference to the filmmaker and performer herself, who grew up questioning why her body didn’t share the proportions of those of her classmates. To which her loving parents, who gamely appear throughout the thought-provoking film, always reassured, “It doesn’t matter what you look like.” (Which is […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday April 09, 2026
£23 billion of food goes to landfill in the UK every year, and this presents massive environmental problems. Plus, at a time when many people are struggling to make ends meet, that waste of money is not insignificant, either. 70% of that waste is said to come from households, but food and hospitality industries, manufacturers, […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday April 08, 2026
Of all the good films that recently hit streaming, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which is now on Netflix, is probably the most overlooked. Now, obviously, hardcore fans of Alex Garland and Danny Boyle’s Rage Virus universe did not sleep on The Bone Temple. Except for me, of course. I chickened out when it […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday April 07, 2026
After a whirlwind March, marked by the unstoppable adrenaline of action films like the visceral War Machine or the frenetic Pretty Lethal, the big screen is gearing up for a much-needed change of pace. After weeks of high tension, lethal choreography, and massive explosions that kept audiences on the edge of their seats, April arrives […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday April 06, 2026
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Friday April 03, 2026
If film noir introduced a new kind of moral ambiguity to 1940s cinema, the early 1950s brought a different, but equally significant, shift: a transformation in acting itself. The change was subtle at first, then impossible to ignore. Performances became less polished, less theatrical, and far more psychologically exposed. Characters no longer seemed composed and […]
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