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On Location: Ghostbusters HQ
Originally posted on FILM GRIMOIRE:
I feel like everyone had films that they obsessed over as a kid. For me, it was definitely Mrs Doubtfire (1993), and Sister Act (1992). Another film I would watch over and over again was the kooky/spooky classic Ghostbusters (1984). And I still love it, which is why I was…
On Location: Houses of Parliament and Big Ben
This is the final post in my On Location series for the amazing and beautiful city of London! I’ve scheduled this so it should post as I’m soaring in the sky somewhere over the sea near Australia. I have had such an awesome time in London and will definitely be back again. However, as my […]
On Location: Universal Exports
Whilst casually browsing the internet for pictures for one of my other Bond location posts, I found a screencap from The Living Daylights (1987); an exterior shot showcasing a sign for the MI6 cover organisation, Universal Exports. The locale around the sign looked pretty familiar and I realised that there was a Canadian flag in […]
On Location: Bond’s escalators at Charing Cross
After dinner the other night, Adam’s cousin casually mentioned to us that the scene in Skyfall (2012) where Bond chases the villainous Silva through a train station and onto a train was shot at Charing Cross station, right near Trafalgar Square. So of course we had to go straight there to check it out! The […]
On Location: The Fighting Temeraire
It was a pleasant surprise when wandering the rooms of the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square to find ‘The Fighting Temeraire’ by J. M. W. Turner in room 34. It is in front of this highly symbolic painting in Skyfall (2012) that Bond and Q the gadgets expert meet for the first time. The image […]
On Location: A secret door to MI6 by the Thames
Lucky I have my handy assistant to illustrate the full dimension of this film location! Adam and I were walking along the Thames the other day when he said, “We should find the secret door from Die Another Day“. I’m not a big fan of that particular Bond film, so I couldn’t even remember which […]
On Location: Stonehenge
For my birthday on the 18th, I finally had the chance to visit a cultural landmark that I have wanted to see ever since I was a child – Stonehenge, the mysterious neolithic monument located in the Salisbury Plain of south west England. Seemingly a simple arrangement of huge blue stones, the allure of Stonehenge […]
On Location: The Millennium Bridge
The other day I had climbed to the very top of St Pauls Cathedral, and there were about a million tiny schoolchildren running around on the precariously high platform. One of the children cried out, “That’s the bridge from Harry Potter that gets destroyed by the Death Eaters!”, and I instantly knew he was right […]
On Location: A post-apocalyptic Westminster Bridge
The view towards the famous Big Ben from Westminster Bridge is a photo that I would say all tourists visiting London will take at some point. The bridge itself is insanely busy during the day with tourists taking photos, people selling souvenirs, and relentlessly busy traffic. I like to think of the above two photos […]
On Location: MI6
The other day, whilst walking across Vauxhall Bridge, my partner and I spotted a familiar sight – the building for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. As a certifiable Bond nut, Adam went a bit crazy and we posed for photos there and probably looked silly, but that’s fine. This photo is generally from the angle […]
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