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Global Comment
- 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
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 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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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday April 02, 2026
Who exactly are they? Are they your parents coming home from holiday early before you’ve had a chance to clean up that party? Are they that mythical collective used for rumours, misinformation, the custodians of the dominant ideology you don’t agree with? Are they in authority, a collective of experts, officials, Kafkaesque bureaucrats used to […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday April 01, 2026
There are an awful lot of pizza restaurants in the world, and differentiating between common offerings can be tricky. But Forbici, with existing premises in Manchester in the north of England and now a second venue in Sheffield, reports that top chef Marco Pierre White described their food as “the very best pizza I’ve had […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday March 31, 2026
Alison Baker, University of East London For 75 years, Dennis the Menace – wearing his signature red-and-black striped shirt and joined by his scruffy sidekick Gnasher – has been delighting children with his unapologetic mischief. Dennis the Menace debuted in the Beano comic for children in March 1951 and quickly became a favourite with readers. […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday March 30, 2026
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