THE STYLIST
Cert 18 ★★★ Streaming on Arrow from tomorrow
“We all want what we don’t have,” says psycho hairdresser Claire (Najarra Townsend), admiring herself in the mirror.
Claire has nicked that line from a client she was chatting with the previous night. That’s not all, she’s also wearing her hair, freshly scalped from the woman bleeding out on her salon floor.
Claire, you see, loves to find out what’s going on inside the heads she is carefully pruning. If the chat goes well, the next day, she’ll be wearing your barnet and repeating your best lines.
Claire takes a break from building her grisly wig collection when she is offered a last-minute gig as wedding stylist for Olivia (Brea Grant) whose desperation she mistakes for friendship.
Director Jill Gevargizian loses the tension in a slightly repetitive second act. But I think The Stylist will stay with me. I shall definitely think of Claire when Boris deems it safe for me to get a proper haircut.
I intend to support my local barber but I might not be quite so forthcoming with my holiday plans.
Prague Orlo, a medieval astronomical clock mounted on the Old Town Hall, dates from 1410 and, on the hour, figures representing vanity, greed, death and lust move and 12 Apostles appear. It is, of course, a bit of a bunfight to find space for a decent view.
Should you be over 18 and interested, the Sex Machines Museum is a mere one minute walk away (apparently).
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Possibly the most famous and most photographed clock in the world, it’s been bonging at the north end of the Houses of Parliament since 1859.
Of course, while the name Big Ben is often used to describe the clock tower – that is formally the Elizabeth Tower – it’s specifically the name of the mechanism’s Great Bell, which weighs 13.7 tonnes, has a 441lb hammer and is tuned to the note of E.
The clock – formally the Great Clock – has four 23ft diameter dials, each with 14ft minute hands, 9ft hour hands and is illuminated by 28 energy efficient 85-watt bulbs.
Fact fans: unusually, the hour figure of 4 o’clock is shown by the Roman numeral IV, rather than the typical IIII seen on most other clocks and watches. ■