Filmmaker and cultural critic dream hampton was both shaping and reshaping the world around her decades before she was named in the TIME 100 most influential people list of 2019 (not coincidentally,...
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 /...
It's safe to say that our obsession with TV series isn't going to subside anytime soon. Lucky for us, August 2024 brings an amazing feast of audiovisual genres to the small screen, and we couldn't be...
Every year on July 30, International Friendship Day is celebrated to inspire people around the world to commemorate the spirit of camaraderie, solidarity, companionship and mutual understanding. In...
“A Russian wouldn’t be a Russian if they didn’t steal something!” an anonymous woman wryly exclaims with a hint of pride in Oksana Karpovych’s Berlinale-premiering Intercepted, a probing...
Hi, and welcome to Great Adaptations, a new monthly column here at Global Comment. I'm Kate, and I write a book recommendations newsletter called Five Books For (FBF) over on Substack, where we...
Since my father died, I will occasionally sit down and re-watch some of his favorite movies (and usually force my son to do so as well. He complains about everything being “vintage,” but he...
There are experiences in movie theaters that are magical. IF (Imaginary Friends) gave me one of those. From the very first minute, you know you're in front of a story that will stay with you and...
Late in I Saw the TV Glow, Owen — physically diminished, wracked with chronic asthma — still works in a family entertainment centre, all ball pits and insincerity. Owen is peripheral, a flicker...
Of all the stupid things I regularly do to myself in the name of morbid curiosity, watching House of the Dragon is definitely up there. Considering how pathetically Game of Thrones ended, you’d...
