Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan… This week, Stallone takes us back to a simpler age in Rambo, Jack Black goes pretend low budget in Be Kind Rewind, Bono gets his ego blasted out in 3D in U2-3D and Norah Jones stops singing to make her acting debut in My Blueberry Nights. What option does a faded Eighties action hero really have other than one last trip to his......

Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan… After the giddy heights of last week’s reviews and the orgy of stars that it resulted in, normal service is resumed this week. We have cancer comedy The Bucket List, global action franchise to be Jumper, and a few others all reminding you that you should really be seeing last week’s releases instead. The Bucket List stars Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson as......

Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan… Ladies and Gentleman, this is a once in a lifetime event, a week of movies the like of which we may never see again with hardened critics graciously bestowing stars upon worthy films. Let’s not even introduce them; let’s go straight to the reviews. Feel the critical love wash over you. We have to start with There Will Be Blood, a new film......

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 33. Office Robots Following on from the theme of Office Culture and the influence this can have on how nice we are to each other… this week I started thinking about the actual role we do all day, every day… Now, I realise that lately it's been a very easy thing to take shots at......

If the Guardian hadn't given Will Hodgkinson £5000 to start a record label then Londonist wouldn't be spending Friday night in a folk club in Euston. But we're here for the album launch of Rosemarie, the debut long-player from new young folkers, Thistletown. Strangely the place does not fully resemble a hive of outcasts from The Wicker Man: bristling beards and woolly jumpers, curling tresses and flowing dresses. There are day we say it,......

Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan… No box-office devouring monsters this week but some quality produce that’s worth seeking out – mainly Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead and the Romanian film, 4 months, 3 weeks & 2 days. We’ve also got Hanks and Roberts in Charlie Wilson’s War and Steve Carell in Dan in Real Life. Let’s start with Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, a small-scale movie......

It's been a bad few weeks for the Spice Girls: they released the worst selling Children In Need single ever (to put this into perspective, let's remember that Martine McCutcheon once had a Children In Need single. Martine McCutcheon), appeared in terrible Tesco adverts, played to half full shows in America and Baby Spice sprained her little baby ankle on stage. However, little Emma Bunton ingested her weight in painkillers, soldiered on and appeared......

Our weekly roundup of film reviews continues, courtesy of James Bryan… This week, Bee Movie, Enchanted, We Own The Night, Youth Without Youth, Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium and It’s A Wonderful Life. And if you’re too busy to even read a review of reviews then just go and see the masterpiece that is It’s A Wonderful Life. Simple as that. Since the last episode of the Greatest Sitcom Ever™ nine years ago, Jerry Seinfeld......

Our weekly roundup of film reviews continues, courtesy of James Bryan… This week Kidman plays with her monkey in The Golden Compass, The Rock gets confused in Southland Tales, a famous person gets shot in The Killing of John Lennon and Donal MacIntyre cuddles up to some naughty people in A Very British Gangster. Ever since The Golden Compass was announced, devotees of Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy have been nervously waiting to......

Our weekly roundup of film reviews continues, courtesy of James Bryan… This week Michael Caine and Jude Law give it some Pinter in Sleuth, Wes Anderson delivers his latest quirky offering in The Darjeeling Limited, Christian Bale eats maggots in Rescue Dawn and Blade Runner gets polished up in a new release. Sleuth should be a masterpiece, a quartet of talent coming together to intimidate us all into how it’s done. We’ve got national......

Living thousands of miles away from the White House doesn't mean you can't have a say in who's going to be living there come 2009. According to a report in The Times, London-based Americans have raised 40% of a $1 million overseas war chest for the candidates in next year's presidential election. Thus far, Barack Obama sits top of the class, with £36,000 solicited from Britain since June. His Democratic rival Hillary Clinton has......

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 19. Spinning Argh! No wonder there is apathy. At the time of writing this, a general election is still undecided, although if Gordon Brown goes ahead with it, it could lead to a really exciting time. They are going to really be schmoozing us lot, as our demographic are least likely to vote. In preparation......

Don't you love it when the fair comes to town? The lights, the candy floss, the 'hook a duck', the grenades, the rocket launchers, the assault rifles! Ahh, takes you back to childhood! Your father lifting you onto his shoulders, getting so full of sweets that you throw up after going on the dodgems, examining the latest in targeting technology, watching footage of fuel-air explosive destroying an Afghan town, feeling the reassuring weight of......

Can you imagine the floorspace of 13 Royal Albert Halls or 10 St Paul’s Cathedrals? We are boggled by it. But that’s what’s beneath the dome (and that’s the last time we’ll mention that word…) of The O2, London’s latest flagship entertainment venue rising like a massive, hi-tech media phoenix from the ashes of its sorry millennial baggage. The Guardian was granted an exclusive scout about this week reporting on the 23,000 seater arena,......

The Spill festival continues to pour out around us with performances in the Barbican, Shunt Vaults, Toynbee Studios and Soho Theatre. We've mentioned one piece in the programme so far, Raimond Hoghe's Sacre - The Rite of Spring and there's more coverage of the pieces we missed on the SpillOverSpill blog - click through for reviews and interviews and more musing about this festival of experimental theatre. It's been challenging, difficult, invigorating and exciting:......

This is our favourite assault on police story ever. The headline: Woman accused of spraying cop with breast milk The details: It is alleged she was detained for trying to steal shoes from Lizard, in Hill Street, Richmond. After being arrested for theft she sprayed an officer with milk from her right breast. There's a 'right tit' joke in there somewhere... We expect the Standard to start an anti-breast campaign later today. The Sun......

The Guardian has a neat little slide show dedicated to the new Tate Modern extension. The flamboyant, highly theatrical and immensely complex 11-storey glass tower in the form of a spiralling stepped pyramid, or ziggurat, is destined to rise from the south-west corner of the existing gallery, formerly Bankside Power Station. See artists' impressions of what the new gallery will look like in the London skyline and what it will be like inside its......

Billie Piper is all set to slip into Belle de Jour's gusset! Here's the scoop direct from the diary of a London call girl: Finally - it's official - Billie's on board, and you can expect to see Belle the series on ITV2 this autumn. I couldn't be more excited, and I know the writers and actors and everyone else will do a great job. Hurrah! Hurrah! indeed. Now all the people who have......

Are the Greenpeace campaigners still aloft their erection near the Commons? Anyone got any pics? Once in position the activists unfurled a 50ft banner suggesting PM Tony Blair "loved" weapons of mass destruction. We're not sure it is love as far as Tony is concerned. We reckon Blair just wants to have his way with the naive WMD's and then scarper rather than face up to the consequences. Bastard. Two government members have so......

This week - David Lynch makes another film which makes everyone say "wha...?" (Inland Empire) and Eddie Murphy dons a fat suit and makes a racially insensitive film(Norbit). First up, Inland Empire. We're not a huge fan of David Lynch here at Londonist. For a while we were awed by the mysteriousness and 'cleverness' of it all but then, during a trip to Blockbuster when we had to choose between Mulholland Drive and Die......

Once it was a name that evoked magic, dreams and destiny. In recent years it's taken on connotations of folly, nightmare and derision, but now it looks finally as if Wembley might be ready to resume its place at the very top of the pantheon of British sporting venues. The troubled new stadium has been granted its fire alarm safety certificate, the first tangible evidence that it might really be ready to hold all......

Fresh this Week: Catch the end of the http://www.alternativearts.co.uk/events/spit%5Flit%5Ffestival/" target="blank">Split Lit Festival (Celebrating Women's Writing) on Saturday with Movies and Money which asks the question "What does a movie producer actually do for a living?". Producer Alison Owen talks to Helen de Winter, author of What I really want to do is produce who seems qualified enough to tell us. 4pm, £6/£4, Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, Information and bookings 020 7247 2584. Givin’......

The Guardian has explained that Pricewaterhouse Coopers has explained that London has the highest incomes of any city outside the United States. The 11 cities with the highest average income in the world are all American with London coming in at number 12. In fact, the income generated by London is equivalent to the Gross Domestic Product of Sweden or Switzerland. London has an average GDP per capita of £27,600. When you crunch all......

We do enjoy a good debate here at Londonist HQ so were pleased to be asked along to last night's Guardian/BAFTA Film Forum entitled The Role of the Film Critic in the Digital Age: It is easy and inexpensive for anyone to set themselves up as an internet authority on film - and online film reviews, blogs and podcasts are widely available at the click of a button. Does the internet threaten the role......

A guy attempts to drug his dinner date and is caught: in June last year when the head waiter saw Spall putting a pill in the red wine of his companion while she was in the toilet. Officers searched his pockets and found a blister pack of Xanax, similar to the so-called date-rape drug Rohypnol. Only one tablet was left. The judge quite rightly finds him guilty of administering a substance with intent to......

A New Year, and new format for the Londonist Literary List... Fresh this Week: The first Anything but Hackneyed for 2007. Susan Elderkin, Betty Trask Award winner and one of Granta's 20 best British novelists will be reading from her Odaantje nominated novel The Voices on Thursday 29 March at 6.30pm. The Broadway Bookshop, Hackney - See their Myspace for more details. Givin’ ‘em away: Daniel Mason, author of The Piano Tuner, reads from......

Here's the latest news following the recent fatal shootings: Did 15-year-old Billy Cox die because of a text message? Sir Ian Blair will be meeting John Reid to discuss the shootings. Cameron reckons it's down to the fathers and wants powers introduced to "compel" them to look after the kids. The BBC has been testing the mood on the streets: They have no conscience. They think they can just do whatever they like. They......

York Way, that dusty street alongside King's Cross, is abuzz with construction and redevelopment. Nowhere more so than Kings Place (they're not big on apostrophes in these parts), next to the Regent's Canal. Come 2008, and a new arts and music venue will be open for business. And the fortunate staff of The Guardian and Observer will have a new base. It has already hit the headlines, when part of the site caught fire......

Down in the midst of the Londonist music dungeon we've got our fair share of ideas as to which bands are going to be high up in our last.fm chart at the end of 2007. That said, we've not afraid to see what other people are saying and steal their ideas. So when Poptones boss and all round legend Alan McGee told The Guardian that he thought uplifting pop group The Revelations were going......

A new year brings a new name for The Bridge House Trust which will now be known as the City Bridge Trust *Yawn* So far so boring... in fact we often use the financial section of The Guardian as kitty litter, but this little piece hidden away among pensions and bonuses is filled with interesting little facts: The Trust built and continues to maintain all of the City of London's bridges - including Tower......