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Far from the gleaming multiplex cinemas most of us are accustomed to, there are places that can’t afford the printers needed for making movie posters, let alone the legal rights to actually screen blockbuster Hollywood films. As a result, locals will try their hand at drawing the posters for their bootleg screenings… First let’s take [...]
A room with uninterrupted sea views? Admittedly, it might need a bit of work but this underwater hotel has become a bit of an institution with local fish who have been checking in since the 1960s. At 30 meters below sea level near a lighthouse called La Fourmigue, off the Cap d’Antibes, lies the remains [...]
Who will make the better Gatsby? Can DiCaprio pull off a pink suit as well as Robert Redford did in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 adaptation? As eager audiences pile into cinemas this year however, there’s one Gatsby we won’t be making any comparisons to. Very few are even aware of the original screen adaptation of F. [...]
If someone ever admits to having never seen The Godfather (it happens more than you would think), I instantly get dramatic; widening my eyes, dropping my jaw with a gigantic gasp and other over-the-top gestures. It’s obviously a pretty obnoxious reaction but one that I feel is apparently appropriate for describing how I feel about [...]
It was once known as the “Paris of the West”, the birthplace of the middle class, one of the fastest growing cities in the world, an industrial utopia. The Detroit we know today is an American city so broke that last year half of the street lights in the city’s sparsely populated communities were [...]
We’re all have-a-go chefs at heart, most of us anyway, which is why we’re all capable of enjoying a good cooking show on television now and then, but here is a documentary film that will grab your attention in a way that you never knew gastronomy could. It aired on HBO back in 2011 but [...]
Photograph by Thomas Wrede At their peak, in the late 1950s, there were almost 5000 drive-ins. Today, there are only 366 drive-ins operating in the United States. The outdoor theaters saw a dramatic decline in the 70s and 80s and many of their remains can still be found off highways, marked by rusting entrance marquees [...]
Paris is just one of those places in the world where talented people get together and make magical things. Filmmaker Spike Jonze and one of the few handbag designers in the world I actually think is worth raving about these day, Olympia Le-Tan, got together to collaborate on a short film set in one of [...]
A charming little clip from Paris blues starring Louis Armstrong and Diahann Carroll. If you haven’t seen this wonderful movie, it’s about two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike America at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls, [...]
Okay so the secret is out. I’m a big dorky fan of Jurassic Park. And as I mentioned earlier, there’s a 4th installment of the movie set for release in 2014 so we all better start reacquainting ourselves in time for a major dino-comeback. I’m calling it: dinosaurs will be the zombies of 2014. Here’s [...]
Far from the gleaming multiplex cinemas most of us are accustomed to, there are places that
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A room with uninterrupted sea views? Admittedly, it might need a bit of work but this underwater
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Who will make the better Gatsby? Can DiCaprio pull off a pink suit as well as Robert Redford did in
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The other night I tucked myself up in bed and watched Funny Face, the 1957 Gershwin musical
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If someone ever admits to having never seen The Godfather (it happens more than you would think), I
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I‘m not claiming to have flawless taste in film, here are just a few of my favorites, a few
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When our favorite movies would end and the credits rolled, we couldn’t help but continue
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I couldn’t pick just one video du jour today so I’ve got five videos from five genres
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I‘m the kind of person that would go to the cinema and watch two movies back-to-back (because
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One of my favorite things in life is finding someone who hasn’t seen one of my favorite
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