Oliver Lunn
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Photos from the 1980s of beautiful redheads
Joel Meyerowitz fell in love with shooting the redheads of Cape Cod's Provincetown. A new book republishes some of his most enigmatic subjects. → Read More
Deanna Templeton's timeless photographs of girlhood
The photographer's new book, 'What She Said', underlines the joys and pains of growing up through her archive of portraits and diary extracts. → Read More
7 of Marilyn Manson's most iconic outfits
To celebrate the release of 'Marilyn Manson by Perou: 21 Years in Hell,' the British photographer looks back on the singer's many eccentric looks. → Read More
Seven of the most iconic male beauty looks in film
From Cry Baby to Patrick Bateman, we round up some of our fave male beauty looks in cinema Welcome to Behind The Masc: Rethinking Masculinity, a campaign dedicated to exploring what ‘masculinity’ means in 2019. With photo stories shot in Tokyo, India, New York, and London and in-depth features exploring mental health, older bodybuilders, and myths around masculinity – we present all the ways… → Read More
A brief history of the mullet
From rock gods to art weirdos: the rise, fall and rise again of history’s most divisive hairstyle The mullet. Business up front, party in the back - it’s a hairstyle that has shapeshifted in and out of fashion since its inception. The name itself wasn’t coined until recent times, with the Oxford English Dictionary crediting the Beastie Boys’ 1994 classic Mullet Head for common popularisation.… → Read More
the 90s skate looks and brands that inspired jonah hill’s ‘mid90s’
The fashion in 'Mid90s' takes in many of the era's biggest brands. → Read More
How ‘Minding the Gap’ addresses mental health in skating
The film’s director, Bing Liu, discusses anxiety in skate culture and breaking through the stigma and silence → Read More
'Two for Joy' Isn't Your Standard 'Gritty' Drama
We spoke to British filmmaker Tom Beard about his first feature length, which deals with grief, depression, class and, ultimately, hope. → Read More
Love and longing through the lens of the French New Wave
Warning: Don’t try these cinematic chat-up lines IRL… → Read More
How Irving Penn and Phyllis Posnick changed the language of beauty
We explore how the duo created some of their most iconic images For over three decades, Irving Penn and Phyllis Posnick bulldozed the fashion world, leaving a trail of unforgettable images in their wake. Together, the American photographer and stylist made over 400 pictures for Vogue magazine. Posnick was the fashion editor with a razor-sharp eye for detail. Penn was the prolific photographer… → Read More
10 wellness tips according to David Lynch
It's David Lynch's birthday. To celebrate here are some wellness tips from our favourite Transcendental Meditation practitioner Seriously. Where does David Lynch find the time? In-between making movies, dabbling with photography, music, painting – know what else he does? Transcendental Meditation. He’s been doing it twice a day, every day, since 1973, and insists he’s never missed a day. That’s… → Read More
The indie films to look forward to in 2019
The director of ‘Hereditary’ is back with another horror set to ruin your summer. → Read More
Ten of the most gloriously iconic hairstyles in film
Can you even imagine Spring Breakers without James Franco’s cornrows? Ask yourself this. What would Pulp Fiction be without Uma Thurman’s jet-black bob? What would Road House be without Patrick Swayze’s mullet? Can you even imagine Spring Breakers without James Franco’s cornrows? The answers are quite clearly: nothing, nothing, and no. It’s amazing, if we’re being honest, how many films truly… → Read More
10 great gross-out comedies
First, a word of advice about gross-out comedies. They’re not to be watched while eating even the most basic of snacks. Popcorn? No. Cappuccino? Out of the question. They’re not to be watched – by any means – with your parents. With their gags involving urine, vomit, semen and all manner of bodily fluids, these in-your-face foul movies are the kind that you watch, then have to immediately shower… → Read More
The story of Sandi Tan, the teenage girl who shot Singapore's first feminist road movie, Shirkers
A new documentary unravels the story of ‘Shirkers’ – a lost 90s feminist movie about a teen killer made by Sandi Tan. → Read More
The True Stories Behind Bill Murray's Random Interactions With Strangers
You’re not alone if you’ve repeatedly asked yourself: what’s up with all those Bill Murray stories? The ones where he interacts with random strangers, crashes their parties, does their dishes? The stories have made him somewhat of a myth in movie culture. He pops up in random places with random people. Nobody knows where or when the next one will happen. We only know that, in most of these… → Read More
The True Stories Behind Bill Murray's Random Interactions With Strangers
You’re not alone if you’ve repeatedly asked yourself: what’s up with all those Bill Murray stories? The ones where he interacts with random strangers, crashes their parties, does their dishes? The stories have made him somewhat of a myth in movie culture. He pops up in random places with random people. Nobody knows where or when the next one will happen. We only know that, in most of these… → Read More
Why 'The Wild Boys' is the queer arthouse movie you absolutely need to see
Featuring beach orgies and supernatural phallic plants, 'The Wild Boys' is a modern, gender-fluid 'Lord of the Flies'. → Read More
2018 is the year of the coming-of-age skate movie
Skate Kitchen, Mid90s and Minding the Gap are the films set to 360 pop shove it to the man for the rest of the summer. → Read More
10 great American debuts by British directors
When UK directors first feel the pull of the USA – from Alfred Hitchcock to Christopher Nolan. → Read More