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Global Comment
- Posted on Friday February 13, 2026
If the 1930s were Hollywood’s decade of confidence, then the 1940s are when that confidence begins to fracture. This is not an era defined by a single style or movement, but by a gradual shift in tone – a creeping sense that the old certainties no longer quite hold. The world was at war, then […]
The post Loss of Innocence: Cinema in the 1940s – Late to the Movies first appeared on Global Comment.
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Motormouth Marty Mauser is a grade-A shit heel. A 1950s hustler with a tommy gun delivery who won’t take no for an answer. He’s a lithe, wiry, fuck stick, spidering his way through New York city avenues and alleyways, dive bars and flea pits to wrangle 700 dollars to fly to London and win the […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday February 11, 2026
With the anniversary theater run of the original Lord of the Rings trilogy being complete, I have found myself in conversation about The Two Towers again. In the year 2026, the second installment of Peter Jackson’s epic Tolkien adaptation is more relevant than ever. Originally my second favorite in the trilogy, I now find that […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday February 10, 2026
There’s an odd moment that hits somewhere in your 30s or 40s when you realise you’ve been listening to the same Beautiful South albums for 20 years. Not because Blue Is The Colour isn’t brilliant – it absolutely is – but because, at some point, you kind of stopped seeking out new music. You’ve become […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday February 09, 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 February 06, 2026
People don’t generally have a very positive association with slugs. They’re slimy in a way that’s considered gross, and people blame them for eating food they plant. So seeing Slime Mother, a solo exhibition by artist Abi Palmer, at the Site Gallery in Sheffield was quite a revelation. More accurately, a series of revelations. View […]
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Opened in 1836, the Botanical Gardens in Sheffield in the north of England cover 19 acres and include 5,000 species of plants. In many ways, it’s very grand and reflective of the trends in Victorian open spaces, with a large glass pavilion and impressive fountains. What was most interesting to me on a visit to […]
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Ben McCann, Adelaide University Catherine O’Hara, the beloved actor and comedian who has died aged 71, occupied that rare position in contemporary screen culture: a comic actor, a cult figure and a mainstream star. Her work spanned more than 50 years, from improv sketch comedy to Hollywood features and off-beat TV classics. She was celebrated […]
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The Netherlands had a right wing government for less than a year, and the administration was not very effective on any of the urgent issues and threats facing our time. But it did manage to achieve one thing: an enormous spending cut on Dutch public television. Dutch public television was forced by politicians to cut […]
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