Film
The End of the Line Opens at London Cinemas
I first heard about the film The End of the Line on Twitter. Chefs such as Thomasina Miers and Tom Aikens were pledging to no longer serve endangered species of fish, and Stephen Fry exhorted everyone to watch the film.
Indian Doormat in Paddington
The Frontline Club, located on Norfolk Place, a stone’s throw away from Paddington station, is the place to go for a short fix of anywhere but here.
I’m With Stupid: Make the Change
Along with the majority of my generation, a certain domino-flicking, tap-dancing, teatime kids TV show left me with the lifelong desire to secure a place in The Guinness Book of Records. And thanks to a very interesting event that my local Vue took part in this Sunday, I have now officially fulfilled that dream: I [...]
Salome, South Bank’s Screen Seductress
South Bank’s British Film Institute – whose program schedules are determined by delicious, abstract concepts rather than a homogenous role call of new releases - is in the middle of a season, a season made up of two words likely to send an erotic shudder down all but the most monk-like of spines. It’s the Screen Seductress [...]
Jean-Marc Vallée’s Young Victoria
When I whisk Jean-Marc Vallée off to a corner of the room, away from the PR hive of the Covent Garden Hotel, I pray that he doesn’t recognise me as the numpty who mistakenly showed up yesterday to interview him (in my defence his press people muddled the dates). But the French-Canadian director, in London [...]
Awards Season Has Arrived
You know something’s going right with your evening when it kicks off with a chauffeur leaping out of a sleek black Audi and holding the door open for you. Yes, awards season has well and truly arrived; the highlight so far being Slumdog Millionaire’s string of successes at Sunday’s Baftas. But also in London was the [...]
Modern Consumer Gripe: Holloway Road Odeon
As the child of an ex-Communist trade unionist I am letting the side down. I’ve never poured paint on a visiting ambassador and have yet to negotiate better pay for oppressed workers, but there is one characteristic that proves our family has not been the victim of a changeling-esque ruse.
Everyman Cinema Belsize Park
I had two tickets to see The Class, winner of the Palme d’or at Cannes, at the newly opened Everyman cinema in Belsize park. But I had no date to go with. During an inspired moment, I advertised on a well known dating site: ‘Free ticket to see a film at a luxury boutique cinema…will [...]
The Spirit’s West End Premiere
Tucked away where Tottenham Court Road turns into New Oxford Street is an abandoned warehouse called the Old Post Office. Those around this area last Thursday might have caught a whiff of a city within our city as the premiere of Frank Miller’s The Spirit brought its understated party to town.
A Serving of Rice ‘n’ Peas Please!
Rice ‘n’ peas: As bland as this may sound to some, the particular dish in question is fiery and intense, served on a plate of honesty and sprinkled with a dash of hard-hitting sincerity. Local independent film company riceNpeas, based in Notting Hill, was born out of the desire for real, unbiased documentary-making and, in [...]
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