The editor of British Vogue picks her cultural highlights of the moment, from Kathryn Bigelow to Juergen Teller

The editor of British Vogue since 1992, Alexandra Shulman originally pursued a career in the music industry before following in her parents' footsteps as a journalist, working for Tatler, the Sunday Telegraph and GQ. With Shulman at the helm, Vogue courted controversy by publishing photographs of a young, extremely slim Kate Moss, but Shulman also championed positive changes in the fashion industry by writing an open letter to designers in 2009 arguing for larger sample sizes. Her 2012 debut novel, Can We Still Be Friends, has just been published as a Penguin paperback.

Film

Zero Dark Thirty

I saw Kathryn Bigelow's film last week and thought it was a wonderful example of how to create suspense, even though everybody knows the outcome. It's very well edited, particularly the storming of the terrorists' compound.

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Oleg Pogodin's Дом (Home) would be very much your typical domestic drama were it not for one very important point. It's got its squabbling siblings and remote parents and simmering sexual tensions and the return of a long absent son to bring it all to a boil but it's also got assassins. Lots of them.Set in the remote Russian steppes Pogodin - who previously directed action flicks Man Of The East and We Are From The Future 2 - tells the story of the Shamanov family, particularly son Stepan who returns to the family home following a fifteen year absence with a gang of killers on his tail.We ran the very action oriented first trailer for this one a while back and it has...

The Shamanov family is much like many others. Living off in the remote Russian steppes they don't particularly get along. Don't much like each other, if the truth be told. But when Stepan returns after a fifteen year absence with a gang of hired killers on his tail ... well, the line has to be drawn somewhere.Veteran director Oleg Pogodin (Man Of The East, We Are From The Future 2) turns in what looks to be a most unusual action picture with Home (Dom, Дом) - a film notable both for the gorgeous photography of a seldom seen region and the unusual premise. The trailer also contains a very fine pair of breasts so consider this your not safe for work warning. Take a...