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“What if Sleeping Beauty could rescue herself?”: Fierce Fairytales review

I was a very girly-girl when I was small. I grew up on fairy tales, usually read to me by my dad, and imagined myself as every princess I heard about. I adored those stories, and it was only as an adult that I saw just how dark and disturbing many...

WATCH: Something Special #102 – Daniel Foxx’s grandma went to Pride

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...

“Frantic, claustrophobic tone”: Dark Blue (2002) review

Kurt Russell’s eyes are wired. Those baby blues are ringed with red, the Disney child paranoid, sweating booze and armed to the teeth. Those jump cuts are making us anxious from the off. We’re back in the early 90s and that Rodney King beating...

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