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Global Comment
- Posted on Friday June 06, 2025
It’s June, which can only mean one thing: it’s Pride month. I’d like to say that Pride month means that queer people around the world suddenly have all the rights and freedoms we want, that LGBTQIA+ people are celebrated and that we all have a wonderful time. Unfortunately, in many places, we are fighting harder […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday June 05, 2025
Stanley Kubrick called All That Jazz “the best film I think I’ve ever seen” and on first viewing it’s hard not to get swept away with the tumultuous bombast of Bob Fosse’s semi-autobiographical treatise of life, death and the meaning of art. From the off we are straddling cinematic ley lines that zag from Fellini’s […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday June 04, 2025
When it comes to true crime stories on Netflix, recent additions of Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders and A Deadly American Marriage both stood out to me recently, because they did something that few documentaries actually manage – which is talk to accused criminals. In the case of the Tylenol Murders story, the filmmakers actually […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday June 03, 2025
Lena Ferriday, King’s College London Moth Winn was diagnosed with a terminal illness at the age of 53 and in the same week he and his wife, Raynor, lost their home. As the bailiffs arrived, the couple made a remarkable decision: to take a 630-mile year-long coastal walk from Somerset to Dorset, through Devon and […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday June 02, 2025
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 May 30, 2025
In April, the literary world bid farewell to one of its most influential voices: Mario Vargas Llosa, a master of narrative, political insight and human complexity. Vargas Llosa leaves behind a monumental body of work that redefined Latin American literature and earned him global recognition, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, the Cervantes […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday May 29, 2025
The list of premieres and series returning in June 2025 is here and there are plenty of surprises you won’t want to miss. June is shaping up to be a busy period for streaming services and TV networks. From Netflix’s gruesome dystopian thriller, Squid Game, to the return of the electrifying Emmy-winning series, The Bear; […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday May 28, 2025
Fiona Murphy, Dublin City University There’s a particular kind of story that’s rarely executed well – one without heroes, without lessons, without even the cold comfort of a villain you can confidently point at and say: there, that’s the evil. Vincent Delecroix’s Small Boat – a slim, bruising novel translated with quiet precision by Helen […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday May 27, 2025
Even if you’re not familiar with the experimental art/music groups Throbbing Gristle or Psychic TV, the synopsis for David Charles Rodrigues’s S/He is Still Her/e – The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary makes a one of a kind case for viewing: “Featuring William Burroughs, Brion Gyson, Timothy Leary, Alice Genese (Psychic TV), David J (Bauhaus/Love and […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday May 26, 2025
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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