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......

Almost time for the London Film Festival again! This year the event is opened by David Cronenberg's London-set Eastern Promises - Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen following up A History of Violence with this violent tale of Russian organised crime, penned by Steve Dirty Pretty Things Knight. One to watch for sure. Closing the festival is the new Wes Anderson movie, The Darjeeling Limited. In between there are some 180+ feature films and 133 shorts,......

As befits a truly global capital, London has established itself as a hub in the important international trade of tourist-attracting human reproductions, importing Chinese warriors and exporting waxwork celebrities. While the first crowds were taking a gander at 20 members of the Emperor Ying’s terracotta court at the British Museum, 51 waxworks produced by Madame Tussauds arrived in Washington DC, naked and apparently ready to party. The likes of Beyonce, George Clooney, Tom Cruise......

Always fancied your own place in Chelsea, but were under the impression the postcode was too far expensive to even bother looking? Well think again: A flat roughly the size of a snooker table has gone on sale for £170,000 in London's upmarket Chelsea. The former janitor's storeroom measures 11ft by 7ft and has a cupboard place for a shower and kitchenette area. It comes with its own rubble and a glowing recommendation from......

The police are having a rotten week. They still haven't haven't caught the Ripper, but got caught themselves while being wankers on the phone, have to wear head mounted sex cams, had their own personal data nicked and found that you can't go pulling guns on people just because they work for The Sun. It's almost as if they've come under the influence of a malevolent entity. Perhaps it's simply a case of them......

West Ham defender Anton Ferdinand has been arrested after an incident outside a nightclub in Ilford. Russell Brand's 'shit hot' myspace show last night has caused outrage with fans after an apparant 150 out of 200 seats were filled with VIPs on a guestlist. Sadie Frost got booed on the way in. Sign up for the police force, and you too could be the lucky winner of dinner with Mr Tom Cruise. Online poker......

Somerset House on a warm sunny evening has to be one of Londonist's favourite places to be. Whether you're watching a band or catching a film, there's nothing better than sitting on the grass with a glass of pimms feeling like you're in a small idyllic bubble of London, even though you're practically on Waterloo Bridge. As previously mentioned on Londonist, this week the annual Film4 Summer Screen season kicks off with its, quite......

Dum dum dum, dum dum dum. Dum dum dum, dum dum dum... ...Doodle-oo, doodle-oo, doodle-oo. DADUM! Lalo Schifrin has nothing on us! What do you mean you didn't recognise that as the Mission:Impossible theme? It's not our fault that the internet is unable to translate our unique phonetic musical notation. Just deal with it ok! Let's try some algebra instead: TC + PSH + JJ = M:I III. And if you're Rob Hanks writing......

Tom Cruise IS coming to London: Tom Cruise will meet fans at the London premiere of Mission Impossible 3 on Tuesday after a last-minute decision not to return to his new child. The star was in Rome on Monday for the world premiere, telling reporters he would fly straight back to be with fiancee Katie Holmes and daughter Suri. It was only yesterday that we said the premiere was going to be a bit......

Face transplants are coming to London. Actual face transplants - although that is a pretty good name for a band. The first partial face transplant was of course big news - a woman whose face was mutilated by a dog was the first ever recipient of the new flesh (more John Woo than David Cronenberg). Now surgeons in London are keen to give full face transplants a bash. There are of course a lot......

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and that London is, we admit, the coolest city on the face of the planet. So went the first draft of the US Declaration of Independence. Before old Jefferson got all enthusiastic with that red pen. We like to imagine. When it comes to the perennial and nonsense discussion about......

Bubble opens with fresh ground being broken, but it's only when the camera pulls back that you realise it's a grave that's being dug. It's a loaded opening not only for the plot, but for what the film perhaps represents as an alternative to the mainstream (and indeed independent) movie distribution system. While the rest of Hollywood was running around like headless chickens and constantly coming up with new brain-dead ways to fight piracy......

Tom Cruise takes an unexpected ejaculation right in the face? Normally the Londonist team of lawyers wouldn't even let us get near to typing those words but today, thanks to Channel 4, we are free to make as many childish double entendres about the dimunitive action star as we like. If you haven't got round to reading the news today (well, we say 'news'...) Tom Cruise was on the receiving end of a practical......

It's a tough life being a Hollywood star in the big smoke. You slog your guts out, honing your craft on the stage every night for these limey plebs who insist on keeping their 'cell phones' turned on the whole time. And all you want to do afterwards is get to a lapdancing club where you can have your ego stroked a bit by some gelatinous bint who might recognise you from that film......

Yes it's that time again: time to welcome another American star to our shores to 'tread the boards', 'get back to their theatrical roots' and 'fall in love with their craft all over again'. This time it's a West End production of A Few Good Men, the 1992 film which starred Tom Cruise and Jack 'You Can't Handle The Truth' Nicholson. The stage adaptation has been written by West Wing genius Aaron Sorkin, so......

Well, we'd like to. "Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face." The works of Alan Moore are renowned for their intelligence, wit and sophistication which is what makes them such a difficult animal to translate into film. We've already covered Constantine, but before they Keanued all the soul out of Hellblazer, Hollywood had also done its very best......

A very quick Friday Film post before we go out to an overly-crowded pub and drink over-priced drink until midnight chimes. It's Future Film news because these are the films we're really looking forward to in the new year. We've provided links to sites/trailers where available so you can get excited too. Ocean's 12. Our obsession with heist films makes us slightly biased but we really enjoyed Ocean's 11 and there's no reason to......

No time for a fully-fledged Friday Film News this week, as it's the Londonist Office Xmas Party this afternoon, so we're just going to skip right to the interesting film tidbits section: Following on from last week's teaser trailer, there's now a preview of the War of the Worlds teaser poster online. Is it just us or does it remind you of the poster for The Life of Brian? Somehow we don't think that......