Difficult to avoid the Bat-hype machine this week, as the release of The Dark Knight has prompted calls for a posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger. Luckily, as always, London provides for those who don't necessarily want the latest marketing churn poured down their throat. For your consideration this week: Thursday: Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love is the next film at Rivington Place, in conjunction with their Oscar Munoz retrospective. After his......

A group of masked protesters will gather outside the Church of Scientology's centres in London on Sunday morning at 11am, starting at the centre on Queen Victoria St before moving on to the Goodge St location. But what has prompted this IRL display of anger? The protests - which will take place in various other countries on the same day - are the latest and strangest episode in an all-out war between the famously......

See comments for major corrections to this post. Another Banksy bites the dust. Some nobber at TfL decided to paint over the famous Pulp Fiction image in which Jackson and Travolta clutch bananas in place of guns. The work near Old Street tube had been around for years. Local barber George Thompson told the BBC, "People used to come from all over to see it and photograph it. There is no way it could......

Chris Roberts (not pictured) is a man of many talents. He's traced the origins of nursery rhymes, surveyed London's bridges and even written a musical about Margaret Thatcher. And then there's the Evening Standard random headline generator. Most recently of all, he took us on a walk around the Pool of London. His latest project, One Eye Grey (available at not enough good bookshops), is the first penny dreadful for over a hundred years......

Everyone has fond memories of Hi De Hi. Londonist used to watch, mouth agape, dumbfounded by the idea that anyone would consider enforced jollity and strictly regimented 'fun' to be their idea of a good holiday. The best thing about Hi De Hi was how it made this Londonista's usual holiday - a week in a tent in Wales - look like the epitome of holiday freedom by comparison. Sheep trying to eat the......

The wedding cake isn't yet stale and already plans are underway to bring us a TV friendly version of Charles and Camilla, whether we want one or not. ITV's Granada will be regurgitating the early days of Chuck and his first love in a docudrama entitled Whatever Love Means. Casting begins in May. This could be the perfect opportunity for Christopher Eccleston to get out from under the Doctor Who yoke, but casting Camilla......

It seems that the Easter time feelgood films are taking a bit of a battering at the hands of the critics this week. First up is Be Cool, the sequel to Get Shorty starring John Travolta amongst a cast of...well, actors. Most people enjoyed Get Shorty, and Elmore Leonard was actually involved with the sequel, so there were high hopes for this one. Unfortunately it's apparently a bit rubbish. Someone called Xan Brooks gives......