Beth Johnson, University of Leeds Sally Wainwright’s new BBC drama Riot Women opens not with music, but with the sound of ice clinking in a glass and tonic fizzing as it’s poured over gin. Beth...
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 /...
October 10 is World Mental Health Day, which aims to raise awareness of mental ill-health and, hopefully, remind us to take a little extra care of ourselves. And while some of the messaging can feel...
This spooky season, I am genuinely sick of serial killers and assorted deviants. I want to care about their victims, and not their twisted inner worlds. But the makers of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer...
I've been so excited about this month's column, because I've now reached the Golden Age of Hollywood and the earliest talking movies. Since the golden age of Hollywood spans such a long period of...
Watching Dead Of Winter is a tense 98 minutes in the cinema, and moments of relief are few and far between. Emma Thompson is stunning as Barb, who sets out to Lake Hilda during a snowstorm and...
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 /...
Normally in this column I take a book that’s been turned into a TV show or film, and see what happens in the shift from page to screen. However, this month over at Five Books For I've been looking...
Like the devastating impact of climate change, the cold civil war being fought in America heats up incrementally degree by degree. The constant pressure applied to the body politic by the flickering...
Freya Gowrley, University of Bristol The Netflix documentary Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser raises questions around the ethics of one the most popular US reality TV series of the 2000s....
