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...
This month over at Five Books For, I’m looking at books that explore the Holocaust from different angles. As living memory recedes, I’ve been thinking about the particular value of literature in...
To the chagrin of children and beleaguered adults (it’s me, I am the beleaguered adult) everywhere, summer’s coming to an end, and with it, HBO’s House of the Dragon season 3 has come to an end...
Waiting with my daughter in the post-industrial foyer of Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, for Game of Thrones: The Mad King to start I contemplated my own relationship to fandom and...
Over the past few months, we've watched a series of revolutions in cinema history. We've seen Italian Neorealism strip away studio artifice in pursuit of authenticity, explored how Method acting...
If you haven’t seen Daniel Roher’s film Tuner, then you need to remedy that quickly. Leo Woodall is Niki White a former New York musical prodigy turned piano tuner who suffers from hyperacusis....
Travel can broaden the mind, but are we doing too much of it? And, when we do, is it causing harm? This is what the documentary film, The Last Tourist, directed by Tyson Sadler, sets out to ask. But...
Thanks to the tremendous box office success of Obsession and Backrooms, the horror industry is experiencing a golden age. August 2026 is shaping up to be a must-see month for any fan of the genre....
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 /...
If you thought that the year couldn't get any better in terms of TV, prepare yourself. August is set to deliver the perfect mix of action, suspense and dramas that will move you to tears. The menu...
