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Tour the Real “Downton Abbey”

The cast of “Downton Abbey” © guardian.co.uk Fans of Masterpiece Classics’ “Downton Abbey”, a PBS series detailing the lives of the Crawley family in Yorkshire, England, will delight in the news that they can now visit the Abbey…to the tune of $12,000. Visitors will tour Highclere Castle (the Abbey’s setting in Newbury, England), the gardens, [...]

9 Nerdy Film Locations You Need to Visit in Your Lifetime

From Star Wars to Lord of the Rings, the spectacular geek destinations in the gallery above are some of the coolest movie locations on the planet. They’re from films you’ve probably seen, but you’d have to be a well-traveled cinephile to have visited them all. Full gallery via Wired.com.

Bizarre and Wonderful Movie Posters from Africa

© via Dangerous Minds Hand-painted movie posters from Ghana, for such Hollywood movies as Alien, Cujo, Evil Dead 2, Mission Impossible, The Spy Who Loved Me and Terminator. For party games, remove title and guess the film solely by its art work. Check out the full, captivating gallery via Dangerous Minds.

Nightmare at Cafe Terrace: Freddy Krueger Meets Vincent Van Gogh

© Hillary White Hillary White likes to see what happens when pop culture meets art history. Her latest bit, Nightmare at Cafe Terrace, reveals a scene where Freddy Krueger invades Van Gogh’s Cafe Terrace at Night.

Follow Werner Herzog Into France’s “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”

Cave of Forgotten Dreams is yet another Werner Herzog joint that will no doubt prove amazing. The gist of it: Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting. He puts 3-D technology to a profound use, [...]

Qatar’s Own Hollywood: Film City

Kirsten Amor explores Qatar’s unique, Hollywood-esque ‘Film City’ – a bizarre movie set oasis in the middle of nowhere.

‘The King’s Speech’ Movie Tour of London

The King's Speech on Location in Portland Place, London © David Barrie As a fitting follow-up to last week’s 10 Can’t-Miss London Locations for the Traveling Movie Buff, we look at how to tour London with The King’s Speech in mind. It is of course the movie that’s been on everyone’s lips, especially after it [...]

10 Can’t-Miss London Locations for the Traveling Movie Buff

London is the star of a number of recent blockbuster films – The King’s Speech naturally enough has the city as a major character, as does Black Swan. And so it’s no surprise that people want to see the film locations in real life. As Danny Bearham, Head Concierge of the Park Plaza Victoria Hotel, [...]

5 Movies That Inspired Me to Travel

Ben Hancock reviews 5 films that not only succeed in capturing the mood and essence of a destination, but stir you to experience it for yourself.

Iceland: Beyond Sigur Ros

Idiosyncratic, intelligent and involving, Iceland: Beyond Sigur Rós is a memorable celebration of Iceland’s dynamic and diverse contemporary independent music scene. Check out the complete, beautifully shot documentary via Serious Feather.

Bad Writing: The Movie

This may well be the most anti-inspirational movies for aspiring travel writers. Enjoy.

Sweden’s Ice Hotel Reveals ‘Tron-Inspired’ Suite

If this isn’t begging to be linked to, I don’t know what is. Designers at Sweden’s Ice Hotel have revealed a new suite inspired by Disney’s new movie Tron: Legacy: Inspired by Disney’s release of Tron: Legacy, the British designers Ben Rousseau and Ian Douglas-Jones set out to capture the dynamism and essence of the [...]

Zoom Q3HD Camera: World’s First Portable HD Video and HD Audio Recorder

Best known for kick-ass portable audio recorders, Zoom has just released the Q3HD Handy Video Recorder – the world’s first handheld recorder with digital HD audio and HD video. The standard package includes one-touch recording, 4X zoom, built-in 2.4 inch LCD screen, HandyShare software for quick edits, and instant sharing capability for YouTube. Available now [...]

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TSA Documentary ‘Please Remove Your Shoes’ to Reveal Stunning Ineptitude

Given the TSA’s latest [ahem] “image problem”, it was inevitable that a TSA documentary would come out eventually. Please Remove Your Shoes is just that: … a revealing documentary about broken government process. It is also an empathetic story about a half dozen public servants who try to fix it. And it is a familiar [...]

Chicago’s “Back to the Future” Coffeeshop Pays Homage to All Things ’80s

DeLorean at The Wormhole Coffeeshop, Chicago © ChrisData.com Chicago’s brandy new Wormhole Coffeeshop boasts a lifesize replica of the “Back to the Future” DeLorean. That claim to fame aside, it’s a dream for children of the ’80s: … the Wormhole isn’t just a “Back to the Future” coffee bar – it’s a 1980′s pop culture [...]

Judd Apatow Working on New Travel Film “Wanderlust”

Paul Rudd in a Completely Unrelated Photo Shoot Over at WorldHum.com, Eva Holland notes that Judd Apatow – yes Hollywood’s golden child of comedy film production – is working on a new travel flick: Details are still thin on this one, but it looks as though the Judd Apatow comedy crew is turning its attention [...]

Eat Pray Love: Travel Book-Turned-Film Doesn’t Quite Make the Jump from Print to Screen

I didn’t expect to like Elizabeth Gilbert’s now ubiquitous, best-selling travel tome, Eat Pray Love. The synopsis reads like countless other silly, feel-good, self help books. When my girlfriend suggested I read it, I wanted to babble something about motor oil and the Miami Dolphins. Real men don’t read such nonsense! But it surprisingly resonated [...]

Travel Movies: New ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Trailer

World Hum has just posted the new trailer for the upcoming ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ book-turned-movie: Though it’s not normally a film I’d check out, I’m all too curious after having read the book. It’ll most definitely be a chick flick and, to be honest, I rather pooh-pooh’d the concept when I first heard Julia Roberts [...]

‘Google Me’: Film Follows One Man Around the World to Meet Himself

We’ve all Googled our names at some point, to watch in fear if some undesirable skeletons would tumble out of our virtual closet, or to check who else would turn up in the listings. But Jim Killeen decided to take vanity searches a step further. He went on a journey to meet the other “Jim [...]

Quick Contest Reminder: Win ‘A Map for Saturday’ DVD!

Just a reminder to our loyal readers that the Vagabondish weekly contest drawing to win a free A Map for Saturday DVD is tomorrow at noon. To enter to win, simply subscribe to Vagabondish by entering your e-mail address in the box to the right. (We promise never to spam you. Ever.) Note to RSS [...]

Travel Documentary ‘A Map for Saturday’ Debuts on MTV

Intrepid director and world traveler, Brook Silva-Braga, e-mailed me Friday to say that his kick-ass round-the-world travel documentary A Map for Saturday is going to begin airing on cable TV next month: Greetings from Casablanca! Just wanted to give you a heads up that A Map for Saturday is going to air on MTV in [...]

Robert Redford Takes ‘A Walk in the Woods’ to the Big Screen

Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods is perhaps my favorite hiking/camping book of all time. Few books actually make me laugh out loud, but Bryson’s hilarious prose leaps off the page and begs to be read. A Walk “chronicles — in typically droll fashion — Bryson’s attempts to hike the Appalachian Trail with a [...]

Contest Reminder: Win a Free “A Map for Saturday” DVD

Just a reminder to our loyal readers that the Vagabondish weekly contest drawing to win a free A Map for Saturday DVD is tomorrow at noon. To enter to win, simply subscribe to Vagabondish by entering your e-mail address in the box on the right. (We promise never to spam you. Ever.) Note to RSS [...]

Contest Reminder: Win a Free “A Map for Saturday” DVD

Just a reminder to our loyal readers that the Vagabondish weekly contest drawing to win a free A Map for Saturday DVD is tomorrow at noon. To enter to win, simply subscribe to Vagabondish by entering your e-mail address in the box on the right. (We promise never to spam you. Ever.) Note to RSS [...]

Pocket-sized Movie Review: Cidade de Deus (‘City of God’)

I’m growing a bit blasé in my old age about not needing to see new release movies the instant they premiere. That said, I just watched the five year old Cidade de Deus (“City of God”) over the weekend. It’s an absolute must-see. The story, the characters, the music, the cinematography … I felt like [...]

Win Your Free Copy of ‘A Map for Saturday’

About the Film Gadling said: A Map for Saturday is the single best cinematic response to ‘why we travel.’ Gridskipper called it: A beautifully filmed, gorgeously edited, and, yes, masterfully produced documentary. And here at Vagabondish, I said: All in all, I loved the film. And I’d recommend it to anyone contemplating long-term travel. It’s [...]

Travel Movie Review: 1408

Motel 6 might be a bit rough around the edges, but 1408 is just plain nasty.

Travel Movie Review: Wild Hogs

Nothing beats a road movie. The draw of the long yellow line hits all of us a time or two in our lives, and since we can’t all leave our jobs at a moment’s notice and go all Jack Kerouac for a few months, living vicariously through road movies and books has become quite the [...]

Road Trips for the Dead: Discovering Life in the Afterlife

Lately, original movie ideas seem as common as the passing of Haley’s Comet. Wristcutters: A Love Story explores the meaning of life in the afterlife: Zia (Patrick Fugit), distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly [...]

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