Attractions

What to expect from STAR WARS Identities: The Exhibition

A couple of days ago I visited the exhibition STAR WARS Identities: The Exhibition which is now open at the O2 and explores the complex notion of identity through the characters of Star Wars with an exclusive collection of 200 props, models, costumes and artwork from the Star Wars films. As a huge Star Wars fan myself, I felt transported into the world of my galactic heroes during an interactive…
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Movies

Future Films Heads Up: La La Land (out 12 January 2017)

La la Land… the title does not say much but the trailer certainly does. This is the film I am truly looking forward to watching early in the new year.  La La Land is the uplifting movie of the new beginning that will make us all put the diabolical 2016 behind us with a bang. Take a look at two of the most gorgeous and talented new Hollywood stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in this new clip…
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Competitions

Win 1 of 2 Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition

Win The Elf on the Shelf®! We’re so excited to give two lucky readers The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition straight from the North Pole. Two lucky families will have the opportunity to adopt their very own scout elf in time for Scout Elf Return Week™ (25th November – 2nd December 2016). The Elf on the Shelf®: A Christmas Tradition is an enchanting children’s storybook about…
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Movies

Film review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (out on 18 November 2016)

Harry Potter spin off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a world class comeback of the Harry Potter franchise. It has all ingredients to please Harry Potter fans who have been waiting too long for this: magical creatures, special wizarding tricks (old and new), great villains, humour and drama. Once again JK Rowling hasn’t disappointed her aficionados. The story Fantastic Beasts…
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Attractions

New London themed Lego store opens in Leicester Square

Today toymaker Lego has opened its world’s biggest stores in Leicester Square spanning 914 sq m over two floors. The theme of the Lego store is London: the unique brick-built symbols of London featured in the store will excite UK families but also the thousands of tourists landing in Leicester Square every day. A new scale model of the iconic Big Ben (over 200,000 bricks and 6.53m high) and…
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Competitions

WIN TICKETS TO THE PREMIERE OF ALLIED ON 21 NOVEMBER – IN CINEMAS 25 NOVEMBER 2016

To celebrate the release of Allied, starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, in cinemas 25 November 2016 (cert TBC) we are giving London Mums the chance to win a pair of tickets to the premiere in London on 21 November. From director, Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Castaway), “ALLIED” is the story of intelligence officer Max Vatan (Pitt), who in 1942 North Africa encounters French…
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Movies

Five minute chat with A STREET CAT NAMED BOB film producer Adam Rolston

I am really honoured to have had the chance to interview critically acclaimed Adam Rolston who went from playwright to million dollar film producer overnight. His inspirational debut feature film A Street Cat Named Bob is in UK Cinemas now. Having sold his first screenplay at just 18 years old, Adam Rolston had a successful playwright career before turning to film production. He wrote the…
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Movies

Future Films Heads Up: Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Out on 17 March 2017)

Disney is really good at creating amazing teaser trailers and PR campaigns to get us all keen to the next movies. Beauty and the Beast is one of the films I look forward to the most in 2017. Judge for yourself looking at the trailer that has just been released by Disney. The film looks like the perfect live-action re-telling of the studio’s animated classic which refashions the classic…
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Recipes

Christmas Recipe: 17th century gingerbread biscuit

If you are missing Bake Off try to make this Christmas recipe for a 17th century gingerbread biscuit kindly donated by The Museum of London and Albion which have joined forces to create this yummy cookie commemorating 350 years since the Great Fire of London. People often have the misconception that food from around this time was dull and uninteresting however this isn’t the case at all.
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Books

Christmas Gift ideas: personalised children’s books

Looking for an extra special gift this Christmas? Egmont’s personalised children’s books allow kids to appear in their very own story book alongside their favourite characters including Thomas the Tank Engine, Mr. Men, Fireman Sam, Something Special’s Mr Tumble, and the Teletubbies. Personalised books make for a fun-filled interactive reading experience and are a great way to encourage…
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