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After hours | Review: 25hours Hotel Indre By, Copenhagen

After hours | Review: 25hours Hotel Indre By, Copenhagen

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"Once you’ve got your key for your room, you take the lift upstairs and realise quickly that this is a hotel that could compete with The Overlook for scale and bewildering hallways"
Why I’ll always want to go to a Wagamama, wherever

Why I’ll always want to go to a Wagamama, wherever

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"I did a fashion shoot at the Lexington Street Chipperfield space. Every surface and frosted glass corridor was sleek and lovely"
The worst waitress in London | Viva Dalston

The worst waitress in London | Viva Dalston

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"As we headed for the door she shouted '…AND DON’T EVER COME BACK… YOU RACISTS!'"
Why I’ve got a problem with <em>Promising Young Woman</em>

Why I’ve got a problem with Promising Young Woman

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"It looks like a classic teen comedy – all California pop colours and Charli XCX – but it’s a genre movie of a darker kind: rape revenge"
“Bring out your dead!” | Review: <em>Tales from the Colony Room</em> by Darren Coffield

“Bring out your dead!” | Review: Tales from the Colony Room by Darren Coffield

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"Todays conservative Millennials and Gen Z readers will view all this as if it’s a TikTok from another, more prurient planet, and recoil"
Old town times two | The best hotels in Palma

Old town times two | The best hotels in Palma

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"There is little to suggest from the outside of Can Bordoy that it is as grand as it is. The walk to it involves narrow, cobbled, fairy tale alleyways that twist and turn. Then: BOOM"
Sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack and grey | John Alexander Skelton’s poetic modern menswear

Sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack and grey | John Alexander Skelton’s poetic modern menswear

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"I like a mix of the country tradesman and the flamboyant lunatic aristocrat. Historically, I feel both were very true to themselves in the clothes they wore"
Neon and on and on | Review: <em>You Don’t Nomi</em>

Neon and on and on | Review: You Don’t Nomi

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

Unpacking the much-maligned masterpiece Showgirls
Battleship Island

Battleship Island

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"The violence of the weather, and the mangled ghostly architecture, with its mountains of rubble and rows upon rows of smashed windows, creates something weird and otherworldly. It is The Tempest, rewritten by J.G. Ballard"
Long walks, crash landings

Long walks, crash landings

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"The wreck itself, juxtaposed with the beach it will never move from, is beautiful. It is ruined and tarnished and weathered and frightening"