Unique Rolls-Royce Phantom Goldfinger is the ultimate Bond car October 25, 2024 As an emphatic statement of wealth, it’s hard to top a Rolls-Royce made from solid gold. But then Auric Goldfinger was never the modest or timid type. It was 1964 when this evil mastermind scaled the Swiss Alps in his Phantom III Sedanca de Ville, pursued at a safe distance by Sean Connery as James [...]
Emilia Perez is an early tip for all the top awards October 25, 2024 As we approach awards season, Emilia Perez, the new film from director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, The Sisters Brothers), will hope its joyful and jagged tale rightly captures the imagination of judges. Set in Mexico City, Zoe Saldaña plays Rita, a brilliant but frustrated lawyer working to keep the guilty from prison. Feared cartel leader [...]
The Capitalist: Paddington Bear’s politics, buildings with phallic names and RIP the pumpkin spice latte October 24, 2024 Corporate echo chambers, controversial buildings with phallic names, Paddington Bear’s true political persuasions and the end of the pumpkin spice latte? Catch up on the latest City gossip in this week’s edition of The Capitalist WORKING SMARTER NOT HARDER We’ve all been there; you’ve got work to do but two hours of your diary are booked [...]
The Apprentice: Is the Trump biopic fake news? October 24, 2024 The Apprentice, a film directed by Iranian-Danish Ali Abbasi out last week in the UK, constitutes a brutal character assassination against presidential candidate Donald Trump. Focusing on the years 1973 to the early 1980s, it tracks Trump’s rise from real estate mogul’s awkward son (he’s literally knocking on doors collecting rents) to the man liberals [...]
London theatre icon Rob Madge: I’ve been drinking with Joanna Lumley (imagine if it was Echo Falls!) October 23, 2024 Rob Madge is one of Britain’s biggest grassroots theatre success stories. They tell Adam Bloodworth about their creative process You might not have heard of Rob Madge, but it’s hard to sum up the massive impact their career has had on the UK theatre industry. Madge, who uses they/them pronouns, has a naturalistic style of [...]
Apple Watch Ultra 2 is the brightest and best October 23, 2024 We write a lot about watches at City AM. Watches that have been up as far as the moon. Watches that have been down as low as the Mariana Trench. The versions of these trail-blazing timepieces that end up being sold to the likes of you and I enjoy a rather less salubrious fate, adorning [...]
This will change how you think of Morocco October 22, 2024 THE LOCATION When the Portuguese landed on the stony face of the Atlantic coast in the early 16th century, they stopped at El Jadida, a Moroccan port just an hour south of Casablanca. To protect trade routes between Europe and Asia during their two-and-a-half-century occupation, they built a stronghold known as Mazagan. The centrepiece of [...]
Dawn French: I’m not ready to write about my body October 22, 2024 Dawn French on overcoming shame, belly laughter with Jennifer Saunders and her new book
Eurydice, Jermyn Street Theatre, review: this Greek tragedy is a must-see October 22, 2024 Eurydice review and star rating: ★★★★☆ It’s notoriously difficult to bargain with the lord of the underworld, and when he concedes, it is ill advised to violate his conditions. The story of Eurydice, a character in Greek mythology, draws parallels in the tragedy stakes with Shakespeare’s Juliet. Following Orpheus’ (Keaton Guimarães-Tolley) proposal to Eurydice (Eve [...]
When it comes to luxury watches, the 1990s are back, baby! October 20, 2024 It’s an observation likely to provoke a torrent of below-the-line abuse in watch nerd circles. But here we go: luxury watches as we know and love them owe their existence to a surprisingly modern confluence of circumstances. While the mechanics inside still tick to the tune of 200-year-old technology something happened in the decade that’s [...]