Nighthawks (1981) Review
Nighthawks (1981) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Stallone and Billy Dee Williams are New York decoy cops assigned to an international terrorist, and Rutger Hauer is so much better than the film around him that he…
Filming Location: London
Films in this library shot in London, a city whose streets have played every century they have existed through. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
CaliforniaJudy (2019) Review
Judy (2019) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Renee Zellweger won Best Actress for a technically accomplished transformation inside a film that exists to contain it, covering Judy Garland's five-week London run five months before her death.
EnglandThe King’s Speech (2010) Review
The King's Speech (2010) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A well-made two-hander about a man with a stammer and the unqualified Australian who treated him, which beat The Social Network for Best Picture and Best Director…
AustriaKilling Eve – “Nice Face” (S1E1, 2018) Review
Killing Eve's pilot rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Phoebe Waller-Bridge adapted a set of novellas into an hour that is genuinely funny about an assassin and genuinely serious about a bored woman who has been waiting…
LondonShaun of the Dead (2004) Review
Shaun of the Dead (2004) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A comedy that works as an actual zombie film, which almost no parody manages, because Edgar Wright shot the horror straight and let the jokes come…
LondonDead Set (2008) Review
Dead Set (2008) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Charlie Brooker locked the Big Brother house against a zombie apocalypse, cast the real presenter as herself, shot it in the actual studio, and then refused to let…
London28 Weeks Later (2007) Review
28 Weeks Later (2007) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The opening twelve minutes are as good as anything in the genre and the film never reaches them again. Robert Carlyle abandons his wife to save himself…
LondonLoki Season 2 (2023) Review
Loki Season 2 (2023) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. It finishes an argument the first season opened instead of starting a new one, and it ends with a decision that cannot be taken back. Almost nothing…
LondonA Clockwork Orange (1971) Review
A Clockwork Orange (1971) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Kubrick makes you enjoy a monster's company, then cures him, then asks whether the cure was worse. Withdrawn from Britain by its own director for nearly thirty…
LondonEastern Promises (2007) Review
Eastern Promises (2007) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cronenberg on the Russian mafia in London, where the body is the filing system and the tattoos are the documents. The bathhouse fight works because nobody in it…
LondonAn American Werewolf in London (1981)
John Landis' 1981 horror-comedy. Rick Baker transformation effects won first Best Makeup Oscar.
LondonScrooge (1951)
Alastair Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge. Sim's Scrooge is the definitive screen version of the character.