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...
Step by step in the southernmost forest of Argentina: Tierra del Fuego National Park
Ushuaia wins over the traveler before they even land, when through the window the last stretch of the Andes appears, dropping toward the Beagle Channel. The southernmost city in the world has a...
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...
SEE: Something Special #78 – Tracey Emin in the Guardian
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 /...
Global Comment’s Book Club: February 2026
With International Women’s Day approaching, for this month's Book Club, we are turning to literature from a perspective in which women are not a secondary element of the narrative. This list brings...
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...
March 2026: The best TV and streaming premieres
This March is shaping up to be an important month for television and streaming, with an exciting list of premieres that promise to take over our screens. Over the coming weeks, we'll see a wide...
“There is a lot of meat to this story”: King Sorrow by Joe Hill
People say that writing a big, fat novel is hard. As a person who is currently writing a big, fat novel - I tend to agree. However, as writer Junot Díaz once observed, the novel can take a lot of...
Romantic literature and self-love: intimacy as the origin of connection
Contemporary conversations about love often revolve around the search for the right partner, as if emotional fulfillment depended mainly on finding someone who completes us. Far less attention is...