By: Adam Bloodworth

Features Journalist Adam Bloodworth is the Deputy Life&Style Editor at City AM. He has served in the role since 2022, writing and commissioning culture and lifestyle features for the newspaper and website. The Life&Style section covers film, TV, music, theatre, things to do in London and features that examine the ways Londoners live their lives. He also serves as Deputy Editor for City AM The Magazine, writing and commissioning for the quarterly luxury lifestyle product distributed by hand around the capital. He has been interviewed by the BBC News at 10, BBC Scotland, BBC Three Counties Radio and can be found on X and LinkedIn.

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Rent musical review: This dated show is admittedly full of bangers

October 9, 2026

Rent musical review and star rating: ★★★ It’s pertinently ironic that Rent’s press night coincided with the London Film Festival premiere of Elsinore, Andrew Scott’s remarkably tender AIDS drama. Perhaps in the late-eighties when this musical was conceived, even talking about the epidemic on a stage was politically powerful, even if it were sprinkled as [...]
Elsinore: meet Ian Charleson’s real Hamlet director Richard Eyre

October 8, 2026

The director of Ian Charleson’s 1989 National Theatre Hamlet production speaks to City AM about a long career in showbusiness, and how often national treasures have a dark side. Richard Eyre has worked as a director of stage and film since the 1960s, with his most famous movies including Iris and Notes On A Scandal. [...]
Elsinore review: I wept through Andrew Scott’s devastating AIDS epic

October 8, 2026

Elsinore at London Film Festival review: astonishing, devastating AIDS drama ★★★★★ Despite the rise of stories depicting the epidemic, the horrors of AIDS are still underrepresented in film and TV. Russell T Davies’ It’s A Sin brought freshness by focusing on fleeting moments of joy, and Simon Stone’s Elsinore borrows from that playbook with this [...]
The story of how Simpsons Tavern became Cloth Cornhill

October 7, 2026

City AM meets the men who transformed the much-loved Simpsons Tavern into the new Cloth Cornhill How much can you fiddle with the recipe of… a sausage? “We’re now on the ninth iteration,” sighs Ben Butterworth, founder of Cloth Cornhill. “We’ve been fine tuning the details. It’s still a very peppery, well-seasoned sausage, only more [...]
Robert De Niro on $1.3billion hospitality empire: ‘I’m very protective of Nobu’

October 6, 2026

Goodfellas and Taxi Driver legend Robert De Niro talks exclusively to City AM The Magazine about his hospitality empire, which quietly occupies the 83-year-old New York-born actor in-between his film-making. Over the last 40 years, De Niro has been launching Nobu restaurants around the world, a Japanese brand he is fiercely protective of. He speaks [...]
London Film Festival 2026: everything you need to know

October 5, 2026

New blockbusters will be premiered for the first time ever in London later this month, when the London Film Festival returns to the capital. Expect red carpets and some of the world’s most famous faces on the Southbank, as Gala screenings of some of the biggest film releases of 2026 attract international attention. Hundreds of [...]
Why the tie is making a comeback

October 2, 2026

Once viewed as stuffy and outdated, the tie is staging a comeback. adam bloodworth explores how the corporate staple is being reclaimed by musicians and London’s underground club scene For generations of men, the tie was something you wore without thinking. Slipping one on was simply part of your morning routine, as mundane as shaving [...]
Hay Fever review: Richard E Grant is perfect Coward fodder

October 2, 2026

Hay Fever review and star rating: ★★★★ Of course, darling: Richard E Grant simply must play David Bliss, the blinkered, posho patriarch at the centre of Noel Coward’s drawing room comedy, Hay Fever. This is how I imagine the casting conversations went, anyway. Shockingly, E Grant – everyone’s favourite aristo-portrayer – has until now never [...]
Soho House founder’s new hotel could rebirth central London nightlife

September 29, 2026

St Clement hotel from Soho House founder Nick Jones feels unusually hedonistic for 2026, with dimly lit bars and restaurants, and new sightlines over the Thames Blame Nick Jones if you’re sick of hearing about members’ clubs. He invented the modern iteration of them when he founded Soho House in 1995, now with over 250,000 [...]
First look: Quaglino’s rebirths ‘90s golden era with epic revamp

September 22, 2026

City AM was first to experience the new look Quaglino’s, the legendary St James restaurant where the late Queen celebrated her Coronation, which has been revamped ahead of its hundredth birthday How about a chocolate cigar, or even a chocolate ashtray? These are two of the unusual desserts available at the newly revamped Quaglino’s. They [...]

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