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London photo of the day: film festival press at dawn

Sat, Oct 19, 2013
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The London Film Festival press screening of 12 Years a Slave drew the biggest crowd I’ve seen of the entire festival so far…

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Doctor Who thing: gender-bending lady fans make the Doctor their own

Thu, Oct 17, 2013
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Lots of female fans aren’t dressing up as companions but as the Doctors himselves…

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London photo of the day: Inside Llewyn Davis gala marquee

Wed, Oct 16, 2013
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Another day, another London Film Festival gala marquee at the Odeon Leicester Square.

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Doctor Who thing: the family that regenerates together attends New York Comic-Con together

Wed, Oct 16, 2013
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The Doctor’s adventures as family entertainment is a new development on the left side of the Atlantic, too.

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London photo of the day: Star Command is relocating

Wed, Oct 16, 2013
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Even the space police are abandoning the rundown backwater space station that is the Trocadero.

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Doctor Who thing: merch at New York Comic-Con

Tue, Oct 15, 2013
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My pal bronxbee attended New York Comic-Con this past weekend and took a ton of photos. I’ll be sharing some of the Doctor Who-related ones here over the next few days.

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The Selfish Giant trailer: so, not a fairy tale, then

Tue, Oct 15, 2013
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Well, this looks depressing. Not that that’s a bad thing, of course.

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London photo of the day: gala marquee (before it’s gala)

Mon, Oct 14, 2013
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What the Odeon Leicester Square marquee looks like the morning after a London Film Festival gala screening, when another gala screening is happening that night.

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London photo of the day: the LFF press assembles…

Thu, Oct 10, 2013
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…not quite predawn this morning (though it felt like it) for the London Film Festival press screening of Gravity.

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obviously my London Film Festival plan has fallen apart

Thu, Oct 10, 2013
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My brain is fried. I am indescribably exhausted.

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