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Kick Ass Art / It’s London Art Fair this week…

In Kick Ass (2010), American gangster Frank D’Amico (Mark Strong) has a formidable art collection in his penthouse apartment including two Warhol revolvers, a Hirst spot painting and a...

Bond is back (Part 1): How to create a Goldfinger inspired interior

So Bond is back in the news again. Some good news (Spectre, the 24th Bond epic is on the way) and some bad (the draft script was part of...

Commodus has a tête-à-tête with a striking bust in Gladiator

A short and sharp post to answer a question sent to us recently via twitter: I spent some time fondling this rather fine bust recently. It features in a...

UKs largest open air cinema

The Luna Cinema hosts open air cinema in some rather splendid settings - from London parks to country manor houses and castles, via swimming pools, theatres and ruined abbeys. They promise state of the art...

All the fun of the fair in film

Many great movies have captured the allure of funfairs: Disney's Pinocchio (1940), Brighton Rock (1947), The Third Man (1949), Saturday Night Sunday Morning (1960), Big (1988), Despicable Me (2010), Take This Waltz (2011) and...

Wassily lounge chair

The Wassily lounge chair designed by Marcel Breuer (currently produced by Knoll) crops up in Nine 1/2 Weeks and X-Men: First Class. While an apprentice at the Bauhaus, Marcel Breuer conceived this first tubular chair, which he based on the...

The prop store helping Hollywood films turn back time

Here's a short report on the BBC News website on the 'History for Hire' warehouse in LA which has rented out vintage props to movie-makers for films as diverse...

Book launch – The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey

Fifty years after its conception, Taschen have launched a limited edition book devoted to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Limited to 1,500 copies, this landmark edition has been made in...

Back to the Future with Secret Cinema

Tickets went on sale today (5.6.14) for Secret Cinema's Back to the Future with the organisers promising us a recreation of the fictional town of Hill Valley - the setting for the 1985 movie. Secret...

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