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Friday Film News

This week we look backwards to World Trade Center, fast forward with Click and then arrive closer to home with Life & Lyrics. Let’s just get straight into it with Bradshaw’s (1/5) review of WTC: There are some films so awful, of such insidious dishonesty …

News From The Ist-a-verse

Torontoist visits the site of a new Frank Gehry structure, stalks “the elusive Bahamas streetcar”, and watches Tom Green get surgery. Phillyist rejoices in the Phillies’ wild card chances, mourns the injuries sustained by Eagles defensive end Jevon Kearse, and goes pirate on our asses. …

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Guns & Talks

If you can get away early today you should check out the late afternoon Firecracker screening of Guns & Talks. It’s a quirky Korean combination of thriller and comedy revolving around a quartet of hitmen. Professional killers are an old favourite ingredient for Asian cinema, …

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Ab Tak Chhappan

The Tiger Eye Firecracker Showcase continues tonight with Ram Gopal Varma’s crime thriller Ab Tak Chhappan – a sizzling look at one police division’s take no prisoners approach to law enforcement in Mumbai. Nana Patekar plays Sadhu Agashe, top cop on the beat with a …

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Londonist Gets Off Its Arse: HMS Belfast

Following last week’s successful attempt to look at a bit of London from the perspective of a tourist, we thought we would have another go at visiting a ‘tourist attraction’ that we’d not yet encountered. A friend had recommended HMS Belfast, and we didn’t think …

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Brixton Stories At Lyric Theatre Hammersmith

Brixton is one of those parts of London that doesn’t get tired with re-telling. Most Londoners have a story to tell about the place – getting drunk there, getting mugged there, getting high there, getting lost there, getting stuck there… Eclectic, electric and eccentric, the …

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Monday Miscellanea

This day in London’s history 1952 Joe Strummer is born in Ankara, Turkey. The lead singer of punk icons The Clash may not have been born here – few great Londoners ever are – but his band became synonymous with the capital after a series …

Guns n Roses band member Axl Rose arrives for the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone race track in central England

Axl Rose – The New Diana?

Axl Rose has been visiting London’s teenage cancer wards! Guns n’ Roses frontman Axl Rose has made a surprise visit to the Teenage Cancer Trust Ward at the University College Hospital in London. Simon Davies, the CEO of the Teenage Cancer Trust Ward, commented: “We …

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Don Your Goggles With Google Biggles

Chocks Away! This brilliant Google Maps mash-up lets you fly a biplane over some very familiar territory. And, oh yes mister, you get guns. With infinite shells. And kamikaze option. Until the Getaway 3 comes out, this is the best way to give your office …

Go Go Gadget Mark Thomas!

No-one could ever accuse Mark Thomas of not speaking his mind, and it seems he’s been a particularly busy boy recently: “The Government has been accused of being “too passive” in its policing of weapons exports, after a comedian and arms trade campaigner uncovered evidence …

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Under The Influence of Giants

Well we did as we said and went to see Shiny Toy Guns last night at Barfly. Now we take back everything we said about The Modern and Linken Park, and instead realise that STG fall much closer to Panic At The Disco territory. Yes, …