London: Movie Locations
Posted on August 6, 2017 at 8:00 am
I love this interactive map of London movie locations! Sherlock Holmes, “My Fair Lady,” James Bond….this will make you want to watch and rewatch, so get your Netflix queue fired up!
Posted on August 6, 2017 at 8:00 am
I love this interactive map of London movie locations! Sherlock Holmes, “My Fair Lady,” James Bond….this will make you want to watch and rewatch, so get your Netflix queue fired up!
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 3:59 pm
Warner Bros. Studio’s new Harry Potter tour in London gives fans a chance to explore the enchanting sets where the eight Harry Potter films were made. And they can now live out their fantasy in a luxurious apartment in the rafters of St Pancras Chambers in London, just across the way from Harry Potter’s Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, available to book through onefinestay.
Transformed into a host of apartments, a stay in St Pancras Chambers lets fans “live like a Hogwart local” in this distinctive home while the owner is out of town, with a service that offers all the convenience and comfort of a hotel starting at $470 (US) per night and can sleep up to four people.
Posted on May 5, 2009 at 8:00 am
It’s wonderful to watch young people falling in love for the first time. That’s why we get to see it so often in the movies. But it is even more wonderful to see people falling in love for the last time, and that is one of the three great pleasures of this touching grown-up love story.
It’s always romantic to see first love because we can share with them — just for a moment — the belief that happily ever after means that there will never be an argument or disappointment or loss. But it is even more romantic to see older people fall in love because they know there will be all of that and they go ahead anyway. That is the story of “Last Chance Harvey,” a man who has lost his job and whose daughter asks her step-father to give her away at her wedding because she feels closer to him. Which is what gives him a chance to think about what he really wants for the rest of his life — and then he sees Kate.
Not much more happens. They walk around. They dance at the daughter’s wedding reception. They think about whether they really want to take the risk of sharing themselves knowing in a way that young people cannot what it really means. And yet in those moments, everything happens, and we know it and they know it.
The other two pleasures of the film are Dustin Hoffman as Harvey and Emma Thompson as Kate. These two actors, so perfectly at home with themselves, fearlessly give us two people who are complicated, difficult, and very, very protective of their bruised hearts. And then they let us see them bloom, not all at once, more of a two steps forward, one step back opening up of their hearts to each other. And that leaves our hearts just a little more open, too.
Posted on September 23, 2008 at 8:00 am
David Schwimmer, who spent nine years deftly playing Ross on Friends
seems to be trying to make a sitcom episode out of this overlong over-conventional under-funny romantic comedy. To put it in its own terms, it might make it as a 100-yard-dash, but does not have the stamina for a marathon.
Posted on August 26, 2008 at 8:00 am
A delicious retro romp about a failed nanny who finds her true calling when she transforms the life of a flighty singer, this film is designed around two fabulously entertaining stars, Frances McDormand and Amy Adams.
McDormand is Miss Pettigrew, who begins her day fired from her umpteenth nanny position and with absolutely no prospects. When the placement agency refuses to send her on another interview (“She found you rather difficult and that is, I am afraid, a recurring theme”), Miss Pettigrew steals the address of a prospective employer and shows up to find herself immediately in the midst of complete chaos. Delysia (as in Delicious) Lafosse (Amy Adams) is a singer who is currently involved with three different men. One of them is asleep in her bed, and another is on his way over. Miss Pettigrew’s calm demeanor, resourcefulness, and ability to think fast in a crisis make her immediately indispensable to Delysia, who rewards her with a makeover.