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'Big Miracle' Beefs Up Big Interest in Alaska Whale-Watching

February 3, 2012 at 3:31 PM | by | Comments (0)

Today, Big Miracle opens in theaters across the country and the timing couldn't be better with Alaska's whale-watching season right around the corner.

The film, starring Drew Barrymore, is based on the real-life rescue of several gray whales near Barrow, Alaska in 1988. Barrymore plays a Greenpeace volunteer who, along with her reporter ex-boyfriend (John Krasinski), convinces rival world superpowers to come together and help save the whales.

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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema to Bring Their Brews and Views from Texas to Washington DC

January 27, 2012 at 2:07 PM | by | Comments (0)

The much beloved Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has announced they are expanding their operations next year with a new location on the outskirts of Washington, DC, in Ashburn, VA.

The Alamo Drafthouse isn't your run-of-the-mill movie theater. They serve up gourmet food and drinks every night (there is a bar in every lobby) and host fun pop culture-themed events, like the Dazed and Confused Feast taking place tonight at their Houston location.

Construction on the 34,000 sq. foot theater in Ashburn in a planned community called One Loudoun will begin this spring, with hopes to open in the spring of 2013.

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Watch the Best of This Year's Sundance Film Fest from the Comfort of Home

January 20, 2012 at 1:04 PM | by | Comments (0)

If you're bummed you're not in Park City this week for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival (like we are), there's good new.

For the first time, Sundance will be streaming several events and panels live throughout the festival at www.sundance.org/live and www.livestream.com/sundancefest.

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Five Awesome Things You Can Do at Miami's New World Center

Where: 500 17th Street, Miami Beach, FL, 33139
January 19, 2012 at 11:25 AM | by | Comments (0)

Apart from being a new architectural landmark for Miami Beach, the New World Center is a cool place we highly recommend checking out. The building was designed by Frank Gehry and is worth gawking at for that fact alone.

The venue's main role is to be the home of Miami's New World Symphony and its slate of live performances. But even if you don't dig on classical or orchestral music, don't start yawning just yet. You might just like one of other activities the New World Center has going on. For example, you could...

1. Walk Your Dog Through the Park—or Sit and Eat a Sandwich
We love walking our dog here because, unlike Lumus Park down by the beach, it's almost always quiet. The grass is landscaped with little hills and pathways, and there are curved concrete seats to sit on and take five. Sure, you may share the park with the occasional homeless person, but they're usually just catching some zzzs and not bothering anybody. Besides, there is a security guard who rides around on a bike to keep you nice and safe.

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Sundance Film Festival to Bring Special Screenings to Nine US Cities

January 12, 2012 at 1:28 PM | by | Comments (0)

Once again this year the Sundance Film Festival is taking their show on the road.

For one night only, the Sundance Film Festival USA will pay a visit to nine cities across the U.S. Filmmakers will travel from the festival in Park City, Utah on Thursday, January 26 to introduce and screen their films and participate in a Q&A with audience members in participating cities.

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The 'Up' House in Utah is Finally an Actual Home

January 4, 2012 at 1:41 PM | by | Comments (0)

The real-life "Up" house in Herriman, Utah has found permanent owners.

The house, which is a full-scale replica of the home in the Disney/Pixar movie "Up", located at 13222 Herriman Rose Boulevard, was originally built by Bangerter Homes to be part of the 2011 Salt Lake City Parade of Homes but became a tourist attraction that has brought more than 1000 people a week through suburban Herriman.

The builders had to get special permission from Disney to recreate every detail of the cartoon house, from Carl's chair in the living room to the mailbox outside, and that is exactly what appealed to the home's new owners.

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'War Horse' Conquers the Movies, Broadway, Libraries, and Now a Small UK Town

December 27, 2011 at 2:55 PM | by | Comments (0)

With a movie version currently in theaters, a Tony Award-winning play on Broadway, a novel on the best-sellers list and a past SNL parody, War Horse has completely invaded pop culture. But, it has also offered an opportunity to find travel inspiration in all of its various incarnations.

While War Horse (the movie) was filmed at several locations throughout the U.K., including Devon where it is set, none of the movie's locations is more picturesque than the village of Castle Combe in Chippenham. The small village was shut down last fall while Steven Spielberg filmed scenes for the movie outside the Cotswold homes that line its streets.

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Visit the Real Zoo That 'We Bought a Zoo' Was Based On

December 23, 2011 at 1:07 PM | by | Comments (0)

Cameron Crowe’s We Bought A Zoo, starring Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, and Thomas Haden Church, hits theaters today and is based on the true story of a father who moves his two children to a dilapidated zoo which they restore to its former glory.

The movie is set in the U.S. and was filmed just outside of Los Angeles, but the real-life zoo the story is based on is actually located in Devon, U.K. The Dartmoor Zoo is now the thriving home of dozens of animals including monkeys, reindeer, cheetahs and goats. The zoo also hosts special events, like photography tours, family days, and weddings.

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A Secret Restaurant to Go with London's Runaway Hit, Secret Cinema

December 22, 2011 at 2:00 PM | by | Comments (0)


Secret Restaurant: No, mystery meat is not on the menu

From the people that brought you Secret Cinema—an incomparable live theater-meets-movie screening that has taken London by storm—comes Secret Restaurant.

Like its sister project, available details about what will transpire during your time at the pop-up are skint, at best. Tickets are available for attendees of upcoming Secret Cinema performances, of which there are several in January.

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Checking Out the Womb Room at Fellini's Favorite Tuscan Spa

December 12, 2011 at 4:39 PM | by | Comments (0)

Pizza. Fine wine. Fellini. Some of the finest things to have come out of Italy. But while you can eat and drink till you pop in homage to the glorious foodstuffs, things are a little thin on the ground if you want to do a Fellini pilgrimage. There’s the Trevi fountain, of course, to recreate La Dolce Vita, but that’s touristy; and his hometown of Rimini doesn’t really have a huge amount to offer other than beaches.

But if you travel to the south of Tuscany – to the glorious Val d’Orcia, with its rolling clay hills and snaking cypress trees – you’ll find Chianciano Terme, the spa town where Fellini used to come to take the waters, and where he set 8½.

First things first: Italian spas are not generally like UK or American spas. Go to a spa town and you’ll be confronted with foul-tasting water to swill for the good of your liver, vapor to inhale and doctors to consult. Even for the most “spa”-like treatments – mud wraps – you’re stripped naked, slapped in mud, wrapped in a blanket and then ordered into a bath of thermal water. Therapeutic it may be; classically relaxing it aint.

Chianciano used to be like this back in Fellini’s day – in fact, it was like that the first time we visited; but then about six years ago, they decided to modernize the spa, knocking out a vast block of toilets (a side effect of the water) and installing a mega-spa. There are treatment rooms on top, but what you really go for is the spa: the Terme Sensoriali, with 20 different stages of spa-dom, based around the elements.

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Tom Cruise Takes the Taj Mahal for 'Mission Impossible 4,' Despite a Small Scandal

Where: Mumbai, India
December 5, 2011 at 2:24 PM | by | Comments (0)

Tom Cruise spent a whirlwind weekend in India, taking part in everything from a photo-op at the Taj Mahal to an all-night party in Mumbai, but it's his "fans" who are making headlines overseas.

According to the Hindustan Times, hundreds of the fans who were waiting for Cruise to arrive at the Mumbai Airport weren't fans at all, but rather "junior artists" being paid 150 INR ($3) for the day. One of the "fans" even admitted she never heard of Tom Cruise before arriving at the airport for her paid gig. That's a bit farfetched (who hasn't heard of Tom Cruise), but let's go with it.

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London's Most Popular Summer Film Event Goes Underground for Winter with 'Lost in Translation'

Where: Chalk Farm Road, United Kingdom, NW1 8EH
December 1, 2011 at 1:52 PM | by | Comments (0)

London-based film buffs most likely heard about—and frequented—this summer's Rooftop Film Club screenings, hosted at popular East End hangout Queen of Hoxton. Most shows sold out long in advance, with tickets to Wayne's World, Clueless, and Top Gun, disappearing almost immediately after being released online.

Sadly, a few of these screenings were rained out owing to the city's crappy fussy weather, much to the chagrin of many a Hoxton hipster. Just in time for the blistering cold holiday season, however, the Film Club has gone underground—literally. Migrating to Camden, the newly dubbed Underground Film Club at the historic Roundhouse

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