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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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  • Our thoughts on the Tim Burton exhibition at the Design Museum

    October 30, 2024

    The World of Tim Burton at the Design Museum, review and star rating: ★★★★☆ The Design Museum is leveraging itself as a heritage attraction of equal weight to the behemoths of South Kensington. Its latest exhibitions, a look inside the world of Barbie and, newly opened this week, The World of Tim Burton, are both [...]

  • The Buddha of Suburbia has the most amazing sex scenes I’ve seen in London theatre

    October 30, 2024

    The Buddha of Suburbia review and star rating: ★★★★★ Only London theatre titan Emma Rice could convince an audience to suspend their disbelief when a party popper symbolises someone ejaculating. Of course – why wouldn’t it? Freshly arriving in London after a run at The RSC Swan, Stratford upon Avon earlier this year, The Buddha [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • 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

  • Hard Truths by Mike Leigh, London Film Festival review: I couldn’t bare the misery anymore

    October 17, 2024

    Hard Truths by Mike Leigh, review and star rating: ★★★☆☆ As one of Britain’s greatest living film-makers, Mike Leigh launched the careers of British acting royalty, including Gary Oldman, Alison Steadman and Tim Roth. But goodness gracious me, he’s a right old misery guts. To mark the release of his new film Hard Truths, Vulture [...]

  • The Duchess of Malfi review: Jodie Whittaker can’t save this

    October 17, 2024

    Duchess of Malfi review and star rating: ★★ This overstimulating, overstated adaptation of Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Malfi struggles to find true dramatic depth. Written by English dramatist John Webster around 1612, the revenge tragedy follows the titular Duchess who is widowed but remarries in secret, then has a baby with husband Antonio, who [...]

  • Twiggy at London Film Festival review: Sadie Frost captures why she was so groundbreaking

    October 16, 2024

    Twiggy by Sadie Frost, London Film Festival review and star rating: ★★★★☆ Posh ’90s party girl Sadie Frost has reimagined herself as a documentary maker. In 2022 she directed Quant, about iconic ’60s designer Mary Quant, and her 2024 gambit is about model turned singer, actor and M&S saviour Twiggy. Frost seems to have a [...]

  • Joy at London Film Festival review: this Netflix sob-fest with Bill Nighy is unmissable

    October 15, 2024

    Joy film review and star rating from the London Film Festival: ★★★★☆ Thomasin McKenzie does a spiffing impression of Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones in Netflix’s Joy. Whenever there’s bad news, she scrunches up her face like an enraged toddler, like Zellweger does when either Colin Firth or Hugh Grant do the dirty on her. [...]

  • Darker than Saltburn: Barry Keoghan is amazing as a topless gunman in gory new thriller

    October 14, 2024

    Bring Them Down at the London Film Festival, review and star rating: “Darker than Saltburn’ ★★★★ It’s been exactly a year since Saltburn premiered at the London Film Festival, elevating Barry Keogan to elite-level grave-shagger and enigmatic prettyboy of the moment. You won’t need reminding that in the year since, he’s joined Paul Mescal in [...]

  • Four Mothers at London Film Festival review: This Irish ode to oldies is like a big warm hug

    October 13, 2024

    Four Mothers premiered at the London Film Festival on 13 October. Our rating: ★★★★ Irish writer siblings Colin and Darren Thornton’s rumination on the challenges of balancing family life with personal ambition embraces like a big warm hug.  Four Mothers follows Edward, a queer 30-something writer whose book on teenage trauma has found success in [...]

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