more movie-ish stuff in the tube

An ad for an exhibit of movie sets, near the London Eye: Promoting the tube as a place to shoot movies, featuring lines of dialogue from a movie, and the location in the tube where it was shot: (Great campaign. Wish I’d seen more of these.) Not a movie, but a planetarium show. The important … more…

movie posters in London (part 1)

Movie posters spotted around London these last ten days. Some are exactly the same as those in New York; some are very different. I love seeing how movies are sold in different ways in different places. The U.K. Bride Wars poster is way worse than the U.S. one: The tagline is: “Before the rings go … more…

the TARDIS in Earls Court Road

It’s not really the TARDIS, of course, but it is an actual police box: The info plaque on it. Note that the dedication date long predates the revival of Doctor Who: I don’t know what the hell is with my expression here. Probably the ice-cold rain was hitting me right in the face:

Kidulthood (review)

Before he was Mickey “the idiot” Smith on *Doctor Who* — though not long before — actor Noel Clarke wrote a script for a movie about how urban London teenagers really live.

Sally Lockhart Mysteries: The Shadow in the North (review)

It’s a few years after the events of *Ruby in the Smoke,* the first of novelist Philip Pullman’s stories of the spunky Victorian girl detective, and star Billie Piper is even more spectacularly confident in her second outing as the young woman now daring enough to set herself up in the City, London’s financial center, as a consultant…

The Commander: Set 1 (review)

Oh, but women have come a long way in London’s Metropolitan Police since Lynda La Plante thrust Helen Mirren up the chain of command to DCI in Prime Suspect in 1991, almost 20 years ago.

RocknRolla (review)

Guy Ritchie would surprise us if he surprised us. *RocknRolla,* his latest mockney crime caper, is exactly what you expect it to be. Hell, it’s exactly what you *want* it to be…