Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh’s latest film ‘Unsane’ was shot entirely on an iPhone. With 4k quality available on smartphones, groundbreaking technology is opening new doors for indie filmmakers who are now reaching for their phones and drones. THE RAPID increase in digital technology and advances in smart engineering have led to startling new developments […]
In 1968, women sewing machinists at Ford Dagenham went on strike for equal pay. The movie Made in Dagenham was based on their successful industrial action. But over a century before that, another group of working-class East End women changed UK labour relations forever. Read more about these history-making women strikers. We look at how […]
Believe it or not today is National Chicken Wing Day. Who says so? What are the prerequisites for National Day status? That remains a mystery but what remains crystal clear is there are some award-winning chicken wing outlets out there who will give Colonel Sanders a run for the money. We’ve pitted one in the […]
A Feast of Dining Options in White City The Incipio Group have made it their mission to put White City on the map as the capital’s premier location for bars and restaurants with a difference. The drinking and dining specialists behind the bespoke Pergola on the Roof eatery in Wood Lane have struck again with […]
The L.E.G artist collective has created a sound and light installation called Capsule 4, which is a sensory experience that heightens the emotions in an immersive environment. They invite you to step into one of their (seemingly) neon-lit cages, put on a pair of headphones and take on the Capsule 4 experience. Eddie Saint-Jean, arts […]
Actor Robert Walters recently received a Best Male Emerging Talent nomination at the British Urban Film Festival for Remembrance Day, a short film he co-wrote. Hot off of his movie success, What’s Hot London? interviews him about another project in which he has a more personal involvement. He talks in-depthly about feature-length documentary Suicide: The […]
The decision of whether or not to refurbish an existing property is a dilemma faced across the board by public and private sector concerns as well as homeowners. A recent refurbishment of a Marylebone penthouse increased the valuation of the property by £850,000. The man behind it is the young, dynamic, stylish architect, interior designer […]
MARCH is a month with a focus on women. International Women’s Day on March 8th, Mother’s Day on March 11th and, of course, it’s Women’s History Month. What’s Hot London? magazine’s Eddie Saint-Jean interviewed a number of women artists about their work. All recently exhibited at the Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green. This included the Denise […]
Eddie Saint-Jean, editor of What’s Hot London? magazine attends a screening of his short film at the Cinema Museum, Kennington. His film When The Earth Fell Down is about an environmental disaster. The film event was organised by Exploding Cinema who screened 20 experimental films submitted by film-makers from all over the world.
The government defeated in the courts by Client Earth as their clean air plan falls short. With four members of environmental activists Stop Killing Londoners jailed a few months back for spray-painting Cut Air Pollution on City Hall, it’s been a busy year for environmental activists and the government tussling over London’s high pollution levels. […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
