Willy Wonka

“I’ve got good news. That gum you like is going to come back in style”; as the wee man tells Special Agent Dale Cooper (in one of the least-explained asides in Twin Peaks). But thank goodness it has, since what better way to spend half …

Hang on. Don’t you have to have been dead 20 years to have a blue plaque? Given the name, and the unusual year of death, we at first suspected this building on Berwick Street to be the abode of a certain Gallifreyan national. Sadly, it’s …

Something a little different this week. Here’s how serial stenciler Banksy went about hijacking the new album by exceptionally talented genius-about-town drink-driving airhead Paris Hilton. Watch him doctor the packaging then secrete 500 copies in stores across London and the UK like some latter-day Willy …

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is quite obviously the big release of the week, only this time round it’s all dark and scary stuff as our hero makes the journey into adolescence and… God help us, haven’t we had all this stuff already …

Ah, the Royal Institution. Not a latter-day Bedlam for the blue of blood, but one of London’s foremost scientific centres of excellence. It was here that a certain Mr Faraday cobbled together the first electric generator and changed the world forever. The venerable organisation has …

There’s a lot of pressure ridign on Depp, Burton and their adaptation of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. After all it’s a remake of a pretty good film based on a near-legendary book by the greatest (?) children’s writer of all time (none of that …

We’re not exactly big on gardening here at Londonist. Yes, we know it’s the Chelsea Flower Show thhs week, but we just haven’t reached that age yet where we can get excited about floral arrangements and shrubbery and what kind of manure is ‘in’ this …

Although it still feels as if summer is a long way off, Londonist is already preparing to dust off its wet wipes and blow the cobwebs out of its bank account because festival ticket sale season is upon us once again. This weekend tickets for …

The Sun newspaper has the first photograph of Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, from the set of Tim Burton’s Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Currently being filmed over at Pinewood Studios, Depp is starring alongside Helena Bonham-Carter, David Hyde and Christopher Lee in what Burton …