Global Comment’s Book Club: March 2026
To close out the film awards season, this month’s reading recommendations include books that also made the leap to the big screen. These works show how the same story can unfold differently in...
Category: Film and movies
Horror won big at the 2026 Oscars – it’s time the genre was taken seriously
Frazer Lee, Brunel University of London The horror genre rose from the grave to win big at this year’s Oscars, with four films featuring prominently in the awards. Ryan Coogler’s period vampire...
Great Adaptations: Strangers on a Train on screen
This month over at Five Books For I've been looking at crime novels - not detective fiction exactly, and not quite thrillers either, but stories centred on the crime itself and, often, the...
The purgatory of the female artist: The Bride! review
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is bound like a demon behind the screen, expressionistic but held hostage to misfortune just the same. She could be possessed by Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of...
Film noir – Late to the Movies
Welcome to this month's Late To The Movies, a journey through the history of cinema. Last month’s film selection explored the shifting moral and emotional landscape of the 1940s – the quiet...
“Well written and nuanced”: Wasteman review
The British prison movie genre, like its wayward cousin on the outside, the British gangster genre, is more sparsely populated than you’d think. The (un) holy trinity of McVicar, A Sense of...
The 5 most anticipated action movies of March 2026
There is unparalleled pleasure in watching Hollywood's biggest stars perform amazing stunts from the comfort of a theater seat or a cozy sofa at home. It is that rush of pure adrenaline that keeps us...
Trainspotting 30 years later: 10 surprising facts about a cult classic
Three decades ago, Ewan McGregor's Mark Renton decided to ‘choose life’, and cinema will never be able to thank him enough. The odyssey of this young Scotsman, whose only ambition was to sink...
New ways of seeing: neurodiverse documentaries to watch
“Rubik’s Cube meets Rothko” is how Mark Cousins describes the style of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004), “one of the foremost abstract British artists” (per Wikipedia), though certainly...
From Solteras to Contigo en el futuro: 6 of the best Mexican rom-coms
Forget Hollywood classics like Pretty Woman or 10 Things I Hate About You for a moment, because 2026 is the perfect time to give Mexican romance a chance. Whether you're single or happily coupled up,...