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From page to screen: 5 romance novels that just really, really work on TV

The boom in TV series that are based on romantic novels has not happened by accident. Readers have spent years longing for adaptations that honor the emotional pulse of the stories and don’t reduce relationships to pointless scenes. Television,...

LISTEN: Something Special #76 – Gisèle Pelicot

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...

Loss of Innocence: Cinema in the 1940s – Late to the Movies

If the 1930s were Hollywood’s decade of confidence, then the 1940s are when that confidence begins to fracture. This is not an era defined by a single style or movement, but by a gradual shift in tone – a creeping sense that the old certainties...

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