Sometimes London has the coolest events.

A couple of Saturdays ago we went to Secret Cinema. As the name suggests, there was a secret - the movie. We bought tickets to the event not knowing which movie we were going to see. The movie surprise is not the only fun thing either. The whole event is themed around the movie that you will be seeing.

While we waited in the queue, we were entertained by Jamaican drummers, a preacher wandered up and down the queue trying to convince us to turn away from the path of sin and some guy in a suit tried to sell us tickets to a dance hall. We tried to figure out what movie we were going to see. It was obviously Jamaican. From the style of dress it was set in the late 60s / early 70s. We had no idea what it was.



Finally we were admitted to the cinema where we discovered which movie we were seeing - The Harder They Come. I'd never seen it before; I'd never heard of it actually, even though it's a famous Jamaican film. It was the first feature film produced in Jamaica.

We struggled with the film. The language was English but the accents were so strong that half the time we couldn't understand what was being said. We just had to sit back and go with da flow man! So I give two thumbs up to the event and maybe a few bananas for the film.