British Gangster Film, The Long Good Friday at the BFI Southbank The Restoration Premier- Part of Gentlemans Butler’s iconic Gentlemans Film A balmy summer’s evening at the BFI on London’s Southbank saw the restoration premier of classic 1970’s British gangster film The Long Good Friday. For those unfamiliar with the plot, it’s the story of east-end gangster Harold Shand, played by the brilliant Bob Hoskins, and how on one fateful Good Friday, his empire begins to unravel, with increasingly violent events. Harold is a man with vision who foresaw the re-generation of London’s docklands, integration with the European Union and…
Bruichladdich Luxury Scottish Whisky: A unique sense of place https://www.bruichladdich.com/ It is rare, in life, to find a product which speaks so loudly of its surroundings and the people who produced it. One might think of French perfume and the elegant boulevards of Paris perhaps. The finest tailoring is the preserve of the English with London’s gentlemanly Saville Row at its heart, and if you want the most exotic and flamboyant super-cars look no further than stylish Italians. With this in mind, it is naturally the rugged landscape of Scotland that springs to mind whenever the name whisky is uttered.…
Mount Gay Rum, a taste of Barbados in Fitzrovia On being invited to taste Mount Gay’s superb selections of rum I was intrigued, as I have to admit – rather embarrassingly – to being something of a rum virgin. Until now, my very limited experience of the spirit began and ended in copious glasses of rum and coke one French holiday as a 15 year old in the Dordogne. However, I knew that it’s been the drink of choice for pirates, and until relatively recently, navy’s around the world have given a daily tot to their sailors as a matter…