Ever feel the urge to unleash your inner Indiana Jones? Do you often find yourself solving the crime before the TV detectives? My fellow City Adventurers and I live for these moments. We’ve lost count of the times we’ve “saved the world,” whether it’s through a high-stakes escape room or a Doctor Who-themed adventure. We’ve … More The Unofficial Guide to Being a City Adventurer
The Cinema Museum is located in Kennington, close to the Elephant and Castle, in the former Lambeth Workhouse. Its collection was founded in 1986 by Ronald Grant and Martin Humphries, from their own private collection of cinema history and memorabilia. Its current building was once the workhouse where Charlie Chaplin lived as a child. The City … More The Cinema Museum
The Plot BEFORE THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN… Hawkins, 1959: a regular town with regular worries. Young Jim Hopper’s car won’t start, Bob Newby’s sister won’t take his radio show seriously and Joyce Maldonado just wants to graduate and get the hell out of town. When new student Henry Creel arrives, his family finds that … More Stranger Things The First Shadow – review
The City Adventurers went to a special screening of “The Other Fellow”. Billed as a film about men – real men – men named James Bond. … More The Other Fellow
This time last year we were jetting off to Mallorca for a week in the sun. How things have changed! To recapture memories of that picturesque island, just tune in to BBC iPlayer and watch The Mallorca Files. This daytime cop show tells the story of a mismatched team of police detectives working in Mallorca: … More The Mallorca Files
I’m finally ready to launch the social group “City Adventurers” and will be blogging about our adventures on the alternative website https://cityadventurers.wordpress.com/ as well as here. Please visit us and subscribe to my blogs.
The Bookshop – The Book The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald is set in a fictional town called Harborough. The town was inspired by Southwold, where the author spent a year working in the Solebay Bookshop in the 1950s. As one reviewer commented: At face value, this does not seem typical material for a page-turner. … More Inspirational Southwold
What’s your favorite color? Mine’s red. And now it’s time to find out what colour other people like as December 18th is Answer the Telephone Like Buddy the Elf Day. Want to take part? Just answer the phone and say “(Insert your Name) the Elf, what’s your favorite color.” Don’t forget to use #AnswerThePhoneLikeBuddyTheElfDay on social … More Answer the Telephone Like Buddy the Elf Day
Bao is a tale of a woman whose steamed bun comes to life. Premiering before the Incredibles 2, it is written and directed by Domee Shi, the first female director of a Pixar short film. Domee Shi told Carina Hsieh of Cosmopolitan that she wanted to tell the universal stories of food bringing family together and of overprotective parents learning to let go of their … More Bao – a short film that tugs the heart strings
It’s incredible to think that the first Incredibles film came out 14 years ago. The 2004 American computer-animated superhero film, written and directed by Brad Bird, was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It tells the story of a family of superheroes who are forced to hide their powers. Taking on the role of “Mr and Mrs Parr”, Mr. Incredible … More The Incredibles have still got what it takes