There is one man who has spent more time travelling stunning European locations over the last 5 years than any other and that man is Matt Damon aka Jason Bourne!
There have been three Bourne films in the last five years and the list of cities featured within the movies reads more like a geography […]
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LOCATION: Rome
FILM: Roman Holiday
I know it’s from 1953 but I would much rather think of this movie as ‘Classic’ rather than ‘Old’. Gregory Peck is brilliant, Audrey Hepburn is stunning and this is her American film debut.
Princess Ann (Hepburn) is a royal princess of an unspecified country. She is on a widely publicized tour of […]
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LOCATION: Prague
FILM: Casino Royale
This latest Bond Film was a towering success and has been hailed as the greatest Bond movie ever with Daniel Craig being tagged as the best Bond. I personally don’t agree with this. Casino Royale was a great movie, but was it a true Bond Movie? I say this because I didn’t […]
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LOCATION: Paris
FILM: Tell No One
Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne) is possibly the best thriller of 2007 and without doubt one of the finest French movies ever made. I actually bought this on DVD and was stunned by a card that I found inside the DVD box suggesting I (Not me personally, it […]
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LOCATION: Munich
FILM: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
“If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it, anything you want to do it, want to change the world? There’s nothing to it” Okay so this is a kids film but it’s one of the greatest kids films ever made and I love how […]
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LOCATION: Marseille
FILM: Taxi
I should really title this section Taxi, Taxi 2, Taxi 3 & Taxi 4 because all of these movies are predominantly set in Marseille and just by driving or walking around you will notice many of the locations used in all four films.
Taxi is a great little French film written by Luc […]
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LOCATION: Manchester
FILM: 24 Hour Party People
“It was like being on a fantastic fairground ride, centrifugal forces throwing us wider and wider. But it’s all right, because there’s this brilliant machine at the centre that’s going to bring us back down to earth. That was Manchester. That is the Hacienda. Now imagine the machine breaks. For […]
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LOCATION: Madrid
FILM: Volver
This quote of a simple exchange between two of the leads pretty much sums up the movie….
Raimunda: “Are there things I should know and don’t?“
Sole: “Oodles”.
The film opens in a cemetery full of women cleaning and tending to their families’ gravestones. Two sisters, Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) and Sole (Lola Dueñas) and Raimunda’s daughter […]
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LOCATION: London
FILM: Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
One of the most quoted British movies of all time and from the opening market trader’s pitch from Bacon (Jason Statham) it is easy to see why
Bacon: “Right. Let’s sort the buyers from the spyers, the needy from the greedy, and those who trust me from the ones […]
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LOCATION: Edinburgh
FILM: Trainspotting
I still can’t work out what the director is trying to say about heroin in this movie. On one side there are the comedowns, the life of crime, the pain inflicted upon family and friends, the lack of cash and the general living in shit. On the other hand whilst on heroin Renton […]
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