For a person who’s not much interested in the Oscars, I am extremely happy that Demi Moore has snagged a Best Actress nomination for The Substance. The Substance is body horror at its best, and...
2024 brought some literary pleasures into my life: a posthumous Gabriel García Márquez book was published, and some of my favorite books by Latin American authors were brought to the screen in the...
David Lynch’s films are not mere cinematic experiences — they are fever dreams, whispering across the fault lines of reality. To enter Lynch’s world is to surrender to the surreal, to accept...
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 /...
Ah, Jilly Cooper’s Rivals. Have you seen it yet? Have you read the book? If not, then run, don’t walk - the book is brilliant and the recent Disney+ adaptation is the most fun you can have with...
2024 was a good year for horror television. Series such as The Fall of the House of Usher, Teacup, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Evil, Chucky and Interview with the Vampire proved that the...
Marvel and DC's cinematic journeys may have been a bit bumpy during 2024 yet, without a doubt, there were pleasant and shocking surprises on the small screen. In both comic book adaptations and...
Daniel O'Brien, University of Essex I can remember the mixed feelings I experienced as a teenager in 1997, buying Life Thru A Lens – my first Robbie Williams album – cautious it was too poppy to...
2024 got off to an auspicious cinematic start with the very first Sundance selection I saw staying with me all year long. As I wrote in my intro to an interview I did with the film’s director Silje...
The following contains spoilers about the plot of the second season of Squid Game. Squid Game, the South Korean Netflix production created by screenwriter and director Hwang Dong-hyuk recently...