Highlights

Marylebone
Posted in: Books, Food & Dining, Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions

What’s Hot Marylebone? From Sherlock Holmes’ Baker Street to boujee French cuisine, we track the cultural and foodie delights of Marylebone. We discovered a streetful of antique shops as well as high-end boutiques, indie bookshops and backstreet art galleries. But which are our chosen hotspots? So, What’s Hot Marylebone?   Madame Tussauds It doesn’t take […]

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Reviews

Frieze Sculpture, Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park
Frieze Sculpture & Art Fair
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

Frieze Week: Man in underpants found wandering around Regents Park!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       If you are visiting Regents Park to catch Frieze Sculpture 2023, it’s likely you’ll also catch sight of a half-naked man wandering around the sculpture site in a dazed state. Indeed, last week from afar it looked as if park security had finally cornered […]

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Events & Festivals

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    Hot Shorts Film Festival London 2016
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights

    It  was red carpet night at the Roxy on October 8th! A weekend when the cream of short-filmmakers and emerging talent were invited to show the world what they were capable of. And once they had braved the videographers trying to squeeze an interview out of them before they even took their seats, the festival […]

  • Gareth Edwards
    Short Film Festivals: Gareth Edwards
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Movies & TV Shows, Promotions

    As we move into the final week before the Hot Shorts Film Festival & Awards on October 8th we take a look at how winning a London film festival not commonly regarded as one of the biggest festivals out there (Sci-Fi London) propelled writer director Gareth Edwards onwards to direct Hollywood movie Godzilla and later Star […]

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    Short to Fame
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, Movies & TV Shows, Promotions

    The countdown begins to What’s Hot London?’s own Hot Shorts Film Festival 2016 in October which promises to bring you the best of UK and international films by emerging directors. For these film-makers it is the culmination of much pain-staking pre-production, long hours on-set and putting full trust in the final edit. They eventually serve […]

  • Royal Observatory
    August 10: When King George II Lay the Foundation Stone at Greenwich Observatory
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights

    Regardless of the British Isle’s unceasing scientific developments minor or major since the Celts, the Royal Observatory can easily lay claim to being the nation’s oldest such institution. Globally recognised as the location of the prime meridian this landmark site marked a turning point in British astronomy and navigation and it was architect Christopher Wren […]

  • HOT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL LONDON LAUREL
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Photos

    What a fantastic selection of short films from a whopping 200+ submissions from all over the world! Congratulations to all film makers and to the ones that made it to the official selection! London may have cold weather for the most part but it sure is getting hot in here at HOT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL! […]

  • Christie's Festival of Folk
    Festival of Folk at Christie’s
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, Photos

    A Festival of British folklore at Christie’s art auction house? Seems a strange mix. As was the exhibited photos, costumes, books and sculptures on display – and throw in some live folk dancers and balladeers performing in its Long Gallery for good measure. The venue lost its stuffy image as Mother Shipton lookalikes with shrubbery […]