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So with that in mind, our year-end countdown continues with BBC One and Amazon Prime Video's Small Axe. Small Axe from BBC and Amazon Prime (Image: Amazon screencap) Created and directed by Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Widows), the award-winning, critically-acclaimed British anthology film Small Axe tells five distinct, powerful, and thought-provoking stories highlighting what life[...]

Yesterday, I saw Wonder Woman 1984 at the BFI IMAX screen at London Waterloo At the time, I didn't realise that this experience would be denied all other Londoners when the movie is released tomorrow, and London goes into Tier 3 lockdown until the end of the year. Credit: me HBOMax is not available in the UK,[...]

Phenomenal performances and a deft blend of historical fact and speculation make for a powerful and effective fourth season of The Crown.

Gosh, the finest comics shop in London has joined that bookshop.org site whereby you can shop online knowing your cash is going to independent bookstores rather than, well… Jeff Bezos So if you can't shop at the actual place, (and I believe there may be reasons why that's an issue right now,…don't know if you've[...]

Here's a photo as spotted by comic book reader Barry Flinstone in the Oxfam charity shop in Gower Street, Bloomsbury, London, and shared with Bleeding Cool A sign that says so much… "The Comics Box has been moved due to repeated theft Please ask at the counter for its new location Thanks." So who is repeatedly[...]

But Orbital Space, just round the corner from Forbidden Planet in London, has another twist on this I popped by just before lockdown locked down. Rich Johnston, outside Orbital Space, sans mask. Sorry everyone, mask on first. Rich Johnston, outside Orbital Space, with mask. Better This is still the mask I got in my Loot Crate back in January[...]

ObligatoryComicsMention: You get a brief glimpse of Orbital Comics, Forbidden Planet and Gosh Comics, in central London below as I whizz past But that's by the by People seem to like these videos for some so I will occasionally do them Today I cycled into London to write Bleeding Cool, and I'm not sure if[...]

London has had a number of comic book stores over the years, some have been and gone But Piranha Comics, with stores in Kingston Upon Thames, Bromley and soon in Watford is looking to find folk who used to work in those stores and maybe get them back into the game. I had a meeting with[...]

Yesterday, I cycled into London for big meetings – taken on the opened up dining areas of Old Compton Street I also popped into Orbital Comics, now opened after shutdown, to find a very different beast indeed Not only has it changed inside, but outside as well. This is SPACE – or Orbital SPACE – the[...]

Rescued from a East End London junk yard, it felt rather an opportune acquisition  It also made for a great Hallowe'en feature and Christmas lights over the blue box in December were a must My neighbours told me they delight in watching people take double takes walking past, and the attraction of the nearby Richmond[...]

A lot of people presumed that the Doctor Who: Time Fracture, a new immersive theatrical event planned for this autumn, and tying into the multi-platform

The play, which charts Hare's experience contracting COVID-19 and his recovery from it, is slated to premiere at the Bridge Theatre in London on August 27th and run till October 31st Nicholas Hytner is the director That's if the UK government's guidelines allow for theatres to open for indoor performances with strict socially-distanced audiences If[...]

Bleeding Cool has been reporting on the changes that Orbital Comics of London, one of the three central comic book stores in London, has been going through since the end of last year, dropping Diamond Comic Distributors long before it was fashionable and changing the kind of shop it is They have introduced a pop-up[...]

Piranha Comics is my local comic book store, in Kingston-Upon Thames, the south-westiest part of London It is a small store, just off the main shopping street, mall and market They have a larger store in Bromley, over in the south-east of London And now, it seems, Piranha Comics is looking to set up a[...]

Rebellion, publishers of Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000AD, is helping out London's Cartoon Museum and its fundraising activities They are  creating a special T-shirt, profits from which will go towards keeping this museum going through these rough times. The new T-shirt, available exclusively from the 2000 AD and Treasury of British Comics webshops, features the cover[...]

Piranha Comics is a small chain of comic book stores – two of them – on the outskirts of London, one in Bromley town centre and another in Kingston-Upon-Thames The latter, smaller store, is my local comic book shop, and I popped in to pick up some comic books yesterday and – with mask on[...]

But no one knew what was actually happening or going to happen in London So I took a socially distanced trip with my youngest into town We saw a performance of A Comedy About A Bank Robbery in the West End for £11 each in a half-empty theatre and then went to an eerily empty[...]

NOTCOMICS: Today, July the 4th, is England's Independence Day. The day in which the government in its infinite wisdom has stated that pubs can open again.

The world of Judge Dredd comes to a new live-action attraction planned for London in the spring of 2021 from Little Lion Entertainment , the creators of The Crystal Maze LIVE, for teams of five. Judge Dredd: Uprising LIVE will see players have to outwit the Iso-Cube and use their combined skill to make it out[...]

And it's one of those that has come to mind, right now. You'll have also read about the Cartoon Museum in London a lot on Bleeding Cool too, and Mark is its artist-in-residence Closed temporarily to the public on 18th March, due to the coronavirus, this has resulted in no income from visitor admissions, the museum[...]

I took a socially distanced bicycle ride into London this morning Today is the day that the UK government has decreed that non-essential shops are allowed to open across England, and that includes comic shops Boris Johnson has read all his Tintin books three times over and was clearly in need of something new So[...]

So when he launches a Kickstarter for a new comic book – well why not a new version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, a follow-up to his version of Macbeth, and created entirely in lockdown? 120 pages worth and retelling the story in punk era 1970s London And reprising Denmark as Denmark Street, a road known[...]

They state "despite all efforts to bring fans the most epic pop culture events in the UK, 4 MCM events scheduled to take place in 2020 have been cancelled following the escalation of COVID-19 in the UK, Europe and globally." These are: MCM Comic Con Birmingham, scheduled to take place at the NEC, Birmingham, from 27 to[...]

The clip where I'm crossing the Thames is probably the best bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lQ5rfIdtm8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Cycling into London in Lockdown 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lQ5rfIdtm8) This bike ride was brought to you courtesy of the Santander-sponsored Transport For London cycle scheme known by everyone as Boris Bikes, and my two legs[...]

While everyone else is cancelling shows, or going on-line only, Jerry Sadowitz has announced a new in-person live show starting in August, in London's Leicester Square Theatre At a time when we may still be on lockdown, people will still be social distancing, and not wanting to risk their health That's okay, it's something Sadowitz[...]

The Hampstead Theatre is a cozy little venue up in North London, well away from the West End It sits in a cozy residential neighbourhood that's practically a little town in itself The theatre stages small and intimate plays by many of the biggest playwrights in the U.K The free play this week is Wild,[...]

It was planned as a weekend away in East London, with professional advice for creators on their current projects However, rather than the physical event, as pictured from last year, it was transformed into an online event instead One that also included the much-anticipated awards night, from the announced shortlist. Photo from LDC YouTube 2019 The winner[...]

Army Corps of Engineers was constructing another facility to add a further 1,000 beds. While in London, the Excel Centre, home to the MCM London Expo also owned by Reed POP, will become an emergency hospital treating coronavirus patients with 500 beds made available at what will be the first of several crisis facilities dotted around[...]

On Saturday, Gosh Comics of London announced it was reducing hours and putting staff onto furlough, with the UK government paying 80% of their wages But a weekend is a long time in comic books The store, situated smack back in the middle of London's usually-fashionable Soho district has closed its doors They report, A new[...]

And Gosh Comics of London is one of the hundreds of thousands of businesses taking them up on this. Gosh Comics has told customers that 1) Effective from this Sunday the 22nd March until further notice most of our staff will be placed on furlough, and no longer required to come into work This will save people's[...]