Seven days to go until the London Film Festival opens its doors. Here’s another two of the films on offer. It turned a few heads when it was announced that Bent Hamer (Kitchen Stories) was going to direct the film adaptation of Charles Bukowski’s Factotum, …
Bubble opens with fresh ground being broken, but it’s only when the camera pulls back that you realise it’s a grave that’s being dug. It’s a loaded opening not only for the plot, but for what the film perhaps represents as an alternative to the …
Londonist is as addicted to buying DVDs as everyone else, so it made sense that we should start a regular column to highlight the little laser-etched treats coming your way over the next week or so. Let us know what you think in the comments. …
We tried to watch the live coverage on BBC News 24 of the family of Jean Charles de Menezes visiting the scene of his death, but found the whole thing too depressing. The running commentary didn’t help – “His mother is breaking down…”, nor the …
George Romero’s back and he brought some old friends with him. Land of the Dead is finally released in the UK after a ridiculously long wait compared to our American cousins. Londonist already reviewed the thing last month, but now the big boys have turned …
We are told that a new blog is born every second. Great news. The even better news is that not all of them are about the writer’s cat, indeed, some of them are actually about interesting things, such as football. However, the same lot who …
The second Test of the Ashes series starts today at Edgbaston, but you dear reader, are most probably stuck in front of your monitor at work and not willing to risk a P45 by feigning a coughing fit, running out of your place of work …
Lots of stuff happening on the terrorist hunt front. Nine more people have been arrested under anti-terrorism laws in Tooting. Three women in Stockwell were detained on suspicion of harbouring offenders. Yasin Hassan Omar, thought to be the Warren St bomber, was arrested in Birmingham …
It’s always nice to find out about new types of crime, especially ones that happen in the back room of East End boozers, so it was with interest that Londonist noted the recent crackdown on an illegal Finch breeding ring in Bethnal Green. Police and …
Bush. Kerry. Chads. Ohio. Yes, we admit it, Londonist is as excited as everyone else is about tonight’s US elections. We’ll be watching it on the good, old BBC (11:50 through to 5:00 with Dimbleby, Snow and Simpson et al) but there are events taking …
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