Short stories are better than novels.
Okay, they’re not. It’s a pointless comparison and one that's responsible for impairing the general evaluation of this ... Read More...
‘I am a sick man… I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts.’
So begins Notes from Underground, the misanthropic memoir of a r... Read More...
I’ve always had a soft spot for boys in make-up. Whether it’s a subversive smudge of black eyeliner or full-on warrior-like warpaint, there’s something seriousl... Read More...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when you don’t have a fringe, you want one, and when you do, you want to grow it out. This kind of grass-is-always-g... Read More...
Name Kimberley Golding
Location Hackney, London
Occupation Children's clothes designer
What are you working on right now?
I am really excited about my... Read More...
Apart from musicals, no film genre is as simple to define. Are the films trying to scare us? Then it’s horror. With obvious exceptions many of the best horror f... Read More...
'Did you pack this case yourself, madam?’ the customs official asks. 'Yes,' I say. What I actually should've said was, 'No. I don't have a clue how this mad... Read More...
When you first visit the Pacific Social Club you can’t help but feel it’s a secret you’ve discovered (it's not - you're there because several people have told y... Read More...
We're all familiar with the image of the dissolute painter and the debauched poet, but here's Graeme Swanson's pick of books by novelists who also liked to part... Read More...
'I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.'
REBECCA - Hitchcock - 1940
After a comically brusque courtship, doe-eyed ingenue (Joan Fontaine) marries suav... Read More...
LE JARDIN DES DOUARS - Essaouira - Morocco
Essaouira is only three hours and twenty EasyJet minutes away from Luton but it feels thrillingly foreign. Morocco... Read More...
I have a good long history with pinafores and dungarees, they've been there at my graduation, my wedding, the birth of my child... Lol, just kidding - I've done... Read More...
This November sees the re-release of Dr Zhivago as part of The BFI’s current LOVE season, and fittingly, the news has rekindled an early girl crush of mine. Per... Read More...
Decadence is a state of mind. Here are five ways to indulge yourself when you're financially embarrassed...
Go somewhere unnecessarily glamorous fo... Read More...
We’ve all got a ridiculously stylish mate whose wardrobe know no bounds when it comes to quirky pieces, re-imagined vintage chic, and where-the-fuck-did-you-get... Read More...
‘I’ll be up in a minute, darling - I’m just cling-filming my head.’
Bleached hair is high maintenance. Since peroxiding mine within an inch of its life, it's s... Read More...
Funny Games – Michael Haneke – 1997
The Pope of home invasion films is great but wrong on two levels. The first wrong comes from the two psychopaths thinking... Read More...
The London Nobody Knows – Norman Cohen – 1967
There’s something sadly appropriate about the fact that Geoffrey Fletcher is now largely forgotten. A prolific ... Read More...
L’il Quinquin is filled with shouldn’ts: we shouldn’t laugh at a severed head dumped on the side of a motorway, but we do.
The thing about MUBI, is it throws u... Read More...
God knows what I was looking for on Google Images to throw up Thea Cadabra and her Amazing Weather Shoes. Whatever it was, it certainly didn't matter any more. ... Read More...
White God – Kornel Mundruczo – 2015
A girl’s beloved dog is cast out on the streets of Budapest for being a mongrel and slowly becomes leader of a canine rev... Read More...
If everything is seeming just a bit too sunny and cheerful, don't despair (well, do). Here's my top five ways to inject a sniff of Patrick Hamilton-esque wretch... Read More...
How embarrassing. You want to tell yourself you didn’t get it simply because it was goddamn beautiful and likely had no intention of reading it... But you did. ... Read More...
A Tale Of Two Sisters – Kim Jee-woon – 2004
A horror film that isn’t quite a horror film, this South Korean oddity is really a Victorian psychodrama set in t... Read More...
It's a classic but I'd never considered a more blue-toned red until I had to ask a colleague what she was wearing, because it was perfection
It's an odd fa... Read More...
It’s not every day you find design classics in a junk shop, but this was clearly a lucky one.
Whether you’re a champion charity shopper, adept at auctions,... Read More...
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night – Ana Lily Amirpour – 2014
Lonely Iranian lady vampires on skateboards have finally been given a voice. This beautifully... Read More...
Before you know it, you’ve allowed your subconscious to do the shopping and you’ve got yourself a COLLECTION.
It’s funny, the kind of fashion ruts we often fin... Read More...
ALIEN – RIDLEY SCOTT – 1979
The greatest monster ever to make you think of genitals is used sparingly and effectively in this brilliant space-horror-anti cor... Read More...
