An unexpected letter arrives from Vienna. An estranged mother on her death bed trying to contact a son who feels nothing but bitterness towards her. So much so that it takes him three days to even open it and when he does it reveals an unsolved family mystery from the years leading up to the […]
It’s buzzing at What’s Hot London? as it gears up for Hot Shorts Film Festival 2016 on October 8 at Roxy Bar & Screen. Going by the trailer, it’s sure going to be hot this autumn!
With London Fashion Week in full swing over the weekend, the capital’s night clubs transformed into glamorous catwalks and after parties for designers, models and their celebrity following. Vaudeville’s in Chelsea hosted London Ethnic’s fashion showcase and after-party.
Blair Witch eh. There’s nothing like a blockbuster hand-held found footage movie to get everyone thinking they can make a successful horror feature film. The problem is whether it will be any good or not. There are many ways to measure success and the $248 million that Blair Witch 1 grossed in 1999 because of […]
Trying to bag tickets to watch Merchant of Venice at the Globe theatre in the summer sun and it’s all sold out? Don’t worry, why not go one step beyond and write your own stage classic and sell out your local community hall in the sun! Not appealing enough? Too much hard work? Well even […]
Who says you should leave remakes of epic films well alone? Charlton Heston’s 1959 version was a plucky remake itself of the original 1925 silent movie directed by Fred Nibo. No doubt that pre-talkie flick was a classic to those movie-goers around at the time as well. Yes, Ben Hur 2016 style has a lot […]
With London Fashion Week fast approaching on Sept 16th let’s sneak in some timely birthday greetings to British fashion designer Stella McCartney, who is 45 today. Although her parentage is pretty illustrious – daughter of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife American photographer/musician Linda – she made her name in this notoriously competitive industry where brand […]
This exhibition of sculpture, paintings, photography and sound installation at the Koppel Project Hive, Holborn is inspired by artists Sol Bailey Barker and Gabriella Sonabends’ 2014 sojourn to Colombia where they lived amongst villagers, gathering first hand tales and myths even as civil war erupted around them. This research formed the foundation for much of […]
Slightly hunched, nervy, affable and with more than a passing similarity to Woody Allen himself (but not in looks), the lead character Bobby (Jesse Eisenberg) is without doubt the movie’s beta male alongside the gun-toting, hood-killing alpha male that is his mobster brother Ben. The opening scene leaves you in no doubt about the balance […]
Exactly 512 years ago Michaelangelo’s statue of biblical hero David was unveiled in Florence, then the spiritual heart of the European Renaissance and this its undoubted signpost and centrepiece. And that was on this day September 8th, today auspiciously falling on a Thursday, a week day now synonymous with art appreciation and private views across […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
