Scene Location: ‘Havana’ (1990)

Sydney Pollack and Robert Redford argued at length with the US State Department about gaining permission to bypass their embargo … More

Scene Location: ‘Our Man in Havana’ (1959)

Filmed by a British company just after the communist victory of 1959, Our Man presents the last days of the capitalist … More

As with most travelogue musicals and holiday romances to emerge from the Classic Hollywood system, Weekend in Havana was shot predominately … More

Havana Widows is a classic pre-code comedy ‘sex film’ from the Hollywood studio system, where the titillation of the story … More

Due to the rising commercial demand for dramatic content in the new medium of film, William Paley was commissioned in … More

My Big Fat Greek Wedding explores Greek American culture, and is set in Chicago, where the film was partly … More

Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) is an update of John Carpenter’s gritty 1976 remake of the 1959 classic western, Rio … More

Dan Aykroyd’s inspiration for the band The Blues Brothers stemmed largely from his formative years spent in the Canadian capital … More

Although the first X-Men film was shot in Toronto, the following three films in the franchise have all brought their … More

According to the Marvel Universe, the most prominent buildings of New York City are all inhabited by superheroes. The Fantastic … More

As a part of the Canadian ‘Hollywood North’, Vancouver is an attractive place to shoot ‘American’ feature films because it … More