London film festivals, movies and cinemas
It’s a tough life being a Hollywood star in the big smoke. You slog your guts out, honing your craft on the stage every night for these limey plebs who insist on keeping their ‘cell phones’ turned on the whole time. And all you want …
Dreams That Money Can Buy is a brand new journal of contemporary art, poetry, prose and political satire. In fact you may already have seen it as their first issue came out in March. So why are we telling you about it now? Well, this …
Another week and another bit of Alan Moore news. No not that Hugo Weaving has taken over as V on the stupid movie of ‘V for Vendetta’. This is much better. The trailer for The Mindscape of Alan Moore is online. It’s a bit of …
Tomorrow night sees two of London’s more leftfield and experimental institutions coming together for what’s being billed as “an evening of evocative and evolutionary music, film and poetry.” The the Diorama Arts centre has been at the centre of London’s experimental arts scene since the …
We’ve mentioned a couple of times now that Iain Sinclair will be appearing at Patti Smith’s Meltdown, but we didn’t reveal that Londonist was invited to have a chat with him one sunny afternoon a week or so ago. What followed was a conversation that …
If we told you that there one of the hopeful contestants in this year’s Pokemon British Championships was a plucky guy from Croydon by the name of Dennis, you’d probably wish the little mite all the best and tell us to give him a friendly …
Whether you like it or not, the film release everyone’s talking about this week is Mr & Mrs Smith. We don’t really need to explain why do we? Unless you’ve been on Mars for the past month you can’t have missed the Brad/Angelina gossip that’s …
Following on from our Do Me Bad Things competition last week (the lucky winner was Joanna Oakley), here’s a chance to win a pair of tickets to see Saint Etienne at Brighton’s Concorde 2, next Wednesday 15th June. The pop perfectionists will also be appearing …
There’s PLENTY to see over on the Internet Archive: The original Nosferatu, Night of the Living Dead and Lon Chaney Jnr in The Indestructible Man… and much more than old horror movies – we’ve just got a one track mind. It’s very American centric of …
Another month, another film based on a comic book. Yes, it’s Sin City, and yet again we’re all waiting with baited breath and fingers crossed, praying to all that is holy that they’ll actually pull it off this time. So what have the critics got …
Those poor poor people of Highgate Village. As if they didn’t have enough to worry about, what with all those hooded teen vandals to keep an eye out for and intricate Nieghborhood Watch schedules to compose. Now they have to deal with those bloody Yanks, …
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