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Global Comment
- Posted on Friday March 06, 2026
Welcome to this month’s Late To The Movies, a journey through the history of cinema. Last month’s film selection explored the shifting moral and emotional landscape of the 1940s – the quiet intensity of Casablanca, the intimate restraint of Brief Encounter, and the cynicism of Double Indemnity – and this month, we step fully into […]
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The British prison movie genre, like its wayward cousin on the outside, the British gangster genre, is more sparsely populated than you’d think. The (un) holy trinity of McVicar, A Sense of Freedom, and Scum have done their 45-year stretch relatively unmolested, with Hunger, Starred Up and The Escapist the only infamous new inmates with […]
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Ushuaia wins over the traveler before they even land, when through the window the last stretch of the Andes appears, dropping toward the Beagle Channel. The southernmost city in the world has a direct beauty and the landscapes around it reinforce that idea from the very first moment. Just a few minutes from downtown, which […]
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There is unparalleled pleasure in watching Hollywood’s biggest stars perform amazing stunts from the comfort of a theater seat or a cozy sofa at home. It is that rush of pure adrenaline that keeps us captivated and glued to the screen, and in 2026, that experience is elevated to an unprecedented level. This year is […]
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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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With International Women’s Day approaching, for this month’s Book Club, we are turning to literature from a perspective in which women are not a secondary element of the narrative. This list brings together novels with female protagonists who make decisions, exercise power, endure adverse circumstances, or redefine their place in the world. They are not […]
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Three decades ago, Ewan McGregor’s Mark Renton decided to ‘choose life’, and cinema will never be able to thank him enough. The odyssey of this young Scotsman, whose only ambition was to sink into a pit of heroin and betrayal, burst onto UK screens on February 23, 1996, without high expectations. However, since that day, […]
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