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Global Comment
- Posted on Wednesday January 07, 2026
Welcome to this month’s Late To The Movies, where I try to educate myself on cinematic history one film at a time. This month, I thought I’d take a look at musicals – how they emerged as a genre and the ways in which they influenced the film industry later on. It would be easy […]
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Tom Ratcliffe, York St John University Thousands of visitors each year explore the landscapes of the UK’s national parks on foot, through walking, rambling, hiking, mountaineering and, more recently, forest bathing. Many of the earliest advocates for a national park system were notable walkers. They ranged from Lake District conservationists such as William and Dorothy […]
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Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People (1942) is a supernatural horror film about a young Serbian woman, Irena (Simone Simon), who believes, based on the lore of the area she grew up in, that she’ll turn into a panther if she experiences sexual arousal. So she does everything she can to avoid this fate and to avoid […]
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It’s the end of the year and it’s time to take stock. Or, if you’re like me, it’s time to curl up and let the universe happen to you. This is my response to one of the best movies about America that came out this year; I just let One Battle After Another happen to […]
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Hussein Boon, University of Westminster; Andrew J. Green, King’s College London; Chris Waugh, Manchester Metropolitan University; Douglas Schulz, University of Bradford; Ellis Jones, University of Leeds; Eva Dieteren, Kingston University; Glenn Fosbraey, University of Winchester; Julia Toppin, University of Westminster; Samuel Murray, University of Leeds, and Stephen Ryan, University of Limerick With Something Good, the […]
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We are now in the midst of the holiday season, which means it’s time for the hopeful, optimistic, and cheerful movies that are typical of this time of year. And what better way to celebrate the 2025 holidays than to immerse ourselves in a Latin American movie marathon? It’s fair to say that, over the […]
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Children’s stories have often found a second life on screen. From illustrated classics to contemporary sagas, the leap from page to film or television has become a way to reimagine the worlds that once lived only in the minds of young readers. In this era of streaming platforms and nostalgia, publishers and studios seem to […]
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Natalia Leite’s M.F.A. (2017) is a rape-revenge thriller that looks at campus sexual assault, victim blaming, and the drastic actions powerlessness can provoke. The film follows Noelle (Francesca Eastwood), a shy art student who is raped by a classmate at a party. As is often the case in both film and real life, the institutional […]
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