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Saturday Cinema Summary!

This week – The suicide of TV’s original Superman, George Reeves, in 1959 (Hollywoodland) and Tenacious D go on a quest to find a plectrum made from Satan’s tooth, (Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny). Usually on Saturday Cinema Summary we summarize and synthesize …

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Who’s A Pirate Boy Then?

Have you always thought you were destined for greater things? Are your kids so thick and boring that you can’t even live your life vicariously through them? Still want that shot at the big time? Well, have you ever thought of pushing your pets into …

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Heart warming animal story of the week: A dove that became extinct in the wild more than 30 years ago has been successfully bred at London Zoo. Planning on going to the 2012 Olympics? Then you will be expected to use public transport. Oh joy. …

Does Tony have an Agent?

The problem with Emilio Estevez finally growing up and getting serious with Bobby is that we may never see a sequel to Londonist fave Maximum Overdrive (pictured above). Emilio can still make us smile though: UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has the looks to be …

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Vince Vaughn At The Old Vic

Hollywood hunk Vince Vaughn will grace the stage at The Old Vic this Sunday, 8th October, as part of The 24 Hour Plays Benefit. “In collaboration with six writers and six directors, the actors will create and stage new works in just one day”. Starting …

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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 …

Friday Film News

This week – fantasy pinup finds happiness in soft porn (The Notorious Bettie Page), a small screen classic gets a Hollywood makeover (Miami Vice) and the American oil industry crushes its rivals (Who Killed The Electric Car? ). Brought to us by Mary Harron (I …

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Time Out’s London On Screen Event

Time Out have announced the details of their ‘London on Screen’ season designed to celebrate “the very best of filmmaking in London from across the decades”: The streets, buildings and monuments of our city appear regularly in films from around the world, from big-budget Hollywood …

Across the Ist-a-verse

We -ists are an eclectic bunch, but there’s a couple of things we all love: famous people, social causes, and wacky local facts. Join us as we starf**k, get virtuous, and learn across the -ist network! Austinist starts us off right by filling the famous …

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New evidence has been uncovered linking July 7 bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan to Omar Sharif and Hanif Asif, who killed three people and injured 50 in 2003 with a suicide attack on a bar in Tel Aviv. A 20-year-old man has been charged with murdering …

She’s so out that she’s in

The time when Hollywood runs out of ‘classic’ television to ‘reimagine’ as big budget movies is fast approaching, so we’d like to suggest a show that is so ripe for reappraisal it’s sticky. The Ugliest Girl in Town was a short-lived show about an American …