Global Comment

3 days ago | globalcomment.com | Philippa Willitts

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 / see / taste / place. It will be something different every week, but it will always be about something worth seeing, hearing or watching, or a place worth visiting or a food worth tasting.

6 days ago | globalcomment.com | Carolina Alvarado. R

The big screen has always been a great medium for depicting mothers in all their beauty and intensity. To be fair, Hollywood has never been shy about praising mothers, and some of the most iconic films focus on motherhood and its many complexities and tribulations. Now that Mother’s Day is just around the corner, it’s the perfect time of year to take a look at the best movies that celebrate all aspects of motherhood, even the challenging and uncomfortable ones.

1 week ago | globalcomment.com | Philippa Willitts

As journalists, when we review a film, a book, food, or anything else, we have to write the review for the reader, removing any thoughts we have about the feelings of those who created it. Our responsibility is always, above all, to give the reader our authentic perspective, not to please or placate creators. Otherwise we’re part of their PR team, not objective reporters.

1 week ago | globalcomment.com | Philippa Willitts

Sometimes, when we have some thinky work to do, we open the laptop and we do it. Just like that. The work needs to be done, so we do it. Other times, we remember those days as if they happened to another person because, try as we might, we just can’t get our brains to co-operate. So what can we do when we need to think but we simply can’t get focused? Sometimes, we need silence for that. Sometimes, we need a change of scene. And sometimes, we simply need the perfect playlist.

1 week ago | globalcomment.com | Mark Farnsworth

With Warfare their companion piece to last year’s best film Civil War, directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza have delivered something far more brutal and necessary than another war movie — they have crafted a cinematic trial by fire, a relentless excavation of the human spirit under siege. This is not a story of battles won or heroes made; it is a study in collapse, in futility, and in the terrifying banality of survival.