Members of the Enterprise will be beaming down to Birmingham’s NEC in October for Destination Star Trek 2019. The only official Star Trek event in Europe, DST features stars from more than 50 years of television space exploration, including the original series and the latest Discovery programmes, and all that came between. The event takes…
Among the guests at London Film Fair in February are three of Blofeld’s Angels of Death from the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service… Helena Ronee, Catherine Schell and Indian actress Zaheera. The former angels join a host of movie glitterati that include Schell’s fellow cast members from Space 1999… John Standing,…
Love them or hate them, tattoos have been around since men walked the planet as hunter-gatherers but in the last few decades they have become more accepted than ever, having emerged from the underground to become a vibrant part of popular culture. Now in its fifth year, Cardiff International Tattoo Convention 2017 is a product…
After a trip across the Irish Sea for events in Belfast and Dublin last weekend, the MCM Comic Con phenomenon returns to mainland Britain for more shows in 2017 in Manchester, Glasgow, London and Birmingham before the end of the year. An abbreviation of “movies, comics, media”, the MCM brand has grown from a single…
If you’ve ever been to Olympia in London you’ll know that it’s a pretty big venue and it takes an event of considerable proportions to take it over… but one of the country’s biggest costume parties manages to do just that. Taking place from 28-30 July, London Film & Comic Con is the flagship event…
A day after a young Peter Parker starts to come to terms with his newfound identity as the web-slinging super hero in Spider-Man: Homecoming in cinemas across the UK, fans of the genre can get a first-hand experience of the art that spawned such Hollywood blockbusters at the sixth annual incarnation of the Cardiff Independent…
