You might remember the newspaper headlines about the Mardini sisters’ story. Professional swimmer Yusra escaped war-ravaged Syria with her sibling Sara and went on to become an Olympic athlete. As part of a desperate journey, the 17 and 20-year-olds became stranded in the middle of the Aegean sea on a sinking dinghy, before courageously pulling the boat […]
If you’ve got something to say, slap it across your chest. Slogan T‑shirts are all the rage – Instagram accounts like @shirtsthatgohard and @goodshirts have been documenting the best dirty, filthy tees for a while now (top picks: “I would piss my pants, if I were wearing any” or “I heart bush, the pussy not the president”), […]
Fashion designers are very much in their cinephile era right now. Alessandro Michele, an avid movie buff, extended the Gucci-verse’s Hollywood vision to Steven Spielberg’s weird 80s Christmas film Gremlins. Nicolas Winding Refn designed an eerie dystopian panopticon that smacked of one of the director’s messed-up thrillers to showcase Prada’s SS23 collection. Then there’s Saint […]
Andrew Dominik’s NC-17-rated Marilyn Monroe movie is finally available to watch! Here’s a breakdown of all the details and why it is so controversial. Back when we were still waiting for Netflix and Andrew Dominik’s fantastical and fucked up biopic of Marilyn Monroe— an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ loose reimagining of the star’s life, […]
Last summer, just as she was preparing to premiere Spencer, Kristen Stewart teamed up with filmmaker David Cronenberg and made a horror movie that’s set to cause mass hysteria with audiences when it drops later this year. The director, known best for making violent body-horror classics like The Fly and Videodrome, worked intermittently on the script for this project, titled Crimes of the Future, for a long […]
Charisma Carpenter has accused Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon of abusing his power on the set of the show. In a lengthy statement posted to social media, the Buffy and Angel star has described “casually cruel” behaviour and “disturbing incidents” that have had a long-term effect on her mental and physical health. “For nearly two decades, I have held […]
On Wednesday (February 3), the Golden Globe Awards announced its nominees for 2021. Among them were some expected inclusions – notably Promising Young Woman and Nomadland, both of which feature on Dazed’s top 10 films of 2020 – and some surprises, namely: Emily in Paris. There was also one major snub: Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You. The powerful drama series – which premiered on BBC […]
Last year, Studio Ghibli announced that its eponymous theme park is on track to open its doors in 2022. Now, as construction continues on the park, the iconic animation studio has shared a preview of a couple of the coming attractions. More specifically, Studio Ghibli has previewed a real-life – although, sadly, motionless – replica of the magic, […]