Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman’s latest film, is a perfect little nugget of weirdness and mundanity. Out in cinemas in the UK on March 11, Anomalisa is almost kitchen-sink, but kitchen-sink in a stop-motion world, and kitchen-sink à la Kaufman with a disorientating and cataclysmic plunge into the paranoid shadows of the human psyche.
Read MoreNowadays we expect our cookbooks glossy, gleaming, and heaving with sex-appeal. But there is something to be said for plain cookbooks like Jane Grigson's Good Things...
Read MoreYumi Okita makes beautiful lepidoptera sculptures using fabrics, cotton, fake fur and feathers, with daintily hand embroidered and hand painted details that bring her creations to life...
Read MoreWhy I’d like the wardrobe of The Duchess de Guermantes in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu.
Read MoreBehind the closed doors of Blossom Hill Cottage in Ambridge, the fictional village that is the home of Radio 4’s The Archers, a disturbing domestic abuse storyline is excruciatingly playing out.
Read MoreDaniels are Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
This absurdist film-making duo may hide their deep philosophical genius behind a smokescreen of bro-ness and potty humour but don’t be fooled, there’s nothing stupid about their work.
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Read MoreThe whimsy of this poem by Edward Lear introduced generations of children to adventure, travel and true love, with these two explorers who threw doubt and unease out of the boat before embarking on their journey, the world and seas at their command.
Read MoreLondon isn’t short of trendy cafes. Finding somewhere cosy and homely with deep sofas and little crannies you can read in is a far tougher ask.
Read MoreOn first glance I missed the apostrophe s after the word sparrow, reading the title as My Mistress Sparrow is Dead, and imagining a frail woman of Victorian beauty, mourned by her equally consumptive lover. The true title, and the story behind it, is why I love this book.
Read MoreThe new series of the X-Files is out and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t re-watch the entire nine series and two films in preparation. It may have taken me the best part of six months but it was worth it and I can now report from a place of authority that the X-Files is the Greatest Love Story of All Time.
Read MoreThe Victorians are recognised as pioneers of sexual repression and extreme prudishness, and certainly that is the image they themselves were keen to project. But was this a clever ruse to hide their rampant appetites for the pleasures of the flesh?
Read MoreIt was with such joy that I happened upon the work of Chinese artist Yin Xin, whose work ‘After Masters’ is a collection of famous European paintings reimagined with East Asian faces.
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