In the 1970s and 80s, comic book fans could buy official Marvel Superhero Trump Cards which sought to answer the question ‘who is the most powerful superhero of all?’ This movie answers that question in emphatic fashion and has little respect for the traditional card game rules. Comic book fans dismayed by how cinema has […]
One of the first exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery’s new HENI Project Space, this group exhibition features multi-disciplinary approaches to futuristic living spaces, architecture and environments.What’s Hot London? magazine’s editor & arts reviewer Eddie Saint-Jean attends the private view. What’s Hot London? news, stories and features are available online, limited edition monthly print magazine and […]
This week is a pretty important one in the history of space travel. It was on this day, April 9th, back in 1959 that America showed off its first astronauts at a press conference and discussed their Project Mercury mission to launch the world’s first manned space program involving these seven military pilots. The launch […]
A QUIET PLACE is a pretty quiet film. In fact, after a couple of scenes, you’ll get the impression you are watching a silent movie. The characters rarely speak so as to prolong their survival in an environment where blind reptilian extraterrestrials hunt down anything they can hear. Their lack of sight evens up 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 Museum of London already has a permanent display dedicated to the Suffragette movement. The centenary commemoration of the 1918 Representation of the People Act has seen this extended with two more display areas. On this same L2 level floor, you’ll also find the Shades of Suffragette Militancy and Votes for Women displays documenting the […]
Helen Dunmore passed away from cancer in June 2017 and her Costa Prize-winning book of poems Inside the Wave touches upon her illness, mortality and the bridges between the worlds of the living and departed. It has the reflective air you might expect from one on their deathbed but with a contemplative flow that both […]
Alcotraz, a bar that’s based on the real Alcatraz Prison and where you’re put in cells while donning prison-issue orange jumpsuits. Why put yourself through the lock-up and the mean-spirited authority of these no-nonsense prison guards? Well the Alcotraz Bar Experience on Brick Lane will answer that in one wild and weird immersive experience. But […]
“Your parents know I’m black don’t they?” asks Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) as girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) prepares to take him to the lakeside estates of Upstate New York to meet the, on the face of it, middle-class liberal mum and dad. And so begins Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner horror style circa 2017. The characterisation […]
The Roman Empire lasted from 27 BC to 395 AD during which it took over great swathes of Europe including Britain. The Celtic tribes that ruled were defeated in 43 AD and Londinium (London) emerged as a vital trading centre and base for troops. The most important British city before the Roman conquest was Colchester […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
