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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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 [...]
The best way to do the Alps, with champagne on tap, amazing food and perfect ski runs

October 6, 2024

Combining service worthy of The White Lotus with facilities straight out of Succession, Chalet Inoko in Val d’Isere high in the Alps is among the most spectacularly opulent ski destinations in the world, says Adam Bloodworth “Just say yes,” Armond, the long-suffering hotel manager in the inaugural season of The White Lotus, demands of his [...]
Seedlip revolutionised alcohol free drinking. Now its founder has a new product: We tried it first

October 6, 2024

Ben Branson birthed the alcohol free spirits scene when he launched Seedlip nearly ten years ago. Five years after selling his majority share, he’s ready to change the face of drinking. Again. He talks to Adam Bloodworth Through the launch of Seedlip, Ben Branson established a reputation as the founding father of the alcohol free [...]
Heartstopper season 3 review: Joe Locke and Kit Connor sex up slow burn new episodes

October 1, 2024

Heartstopper season 3 review and star rating: ★★★ It’s getting to the point where Joe Locke and Kit Connor, the UK’s most recognisable Gen Z acting exports, look a bit silly playing 16-year-olds trying to lose their virginity. Both have led Broadway productions and high-profile US screen projects. But no one ever came to Heartstopper, [...]
Waiting for Godot review: Ben Whishaw finds joy in Samuel Beckett’s wondrous misery

September 20, 2024

Waiting for Godot review and star rating: ★★★★ Waiting for Godot has been called ‘the play of the 20th century,’ but that accolade doesn’t make staging Samuel Beckett’s most significant piece easy. The Irish playwright, who died in 1989, banned tampering with the set or script in adaptations. It hampers creativity somewhat, but even so, [...]
Why Am I So Single? review: Six the Musical creators return with the most fun new show in the West End

September 13, 2024

Why Am I So Single? review and star rating: ★★★★ “People would say to us, Six is amazing, but when’s the next one coming?” Why Am I So Single? writers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss say in a programme note. The new show from the writers of Six, which has one of the most streamed [...]
The best things to do in autumn 2024, from amazing new films to London theatre

September 12, 2024

Autumn can be about taking stock; enjoying long walks on the Heath and cosying up on the sofa. But it’s also the season when some of the most exciting new cultural events launch, from theatre to exhibitions and festivals. With A-Listers hitting the West End, major art shows and a creepy festival of death, this [...]
A Night with Janis Joplin review: Too loud, but exquisite melancholia

August 29, 2024

A Night with Janis Joplin review and star rating: ★★★★ “They said the bad thing about women is that they don’t think before they speak – but that’s the best thing,” says Mary Bridget Davies as Janis Joplin in this musical celebration of the rock ‘n’ roll singer, who died from a heroin dose in [...]

Two top flight clubs in same league to be owned by same firm after major sport decision

Premier League’s smallest stadium gets approval to begin £90m rebuild

This hotel on the Elizabeth Line is 30 minutes from London but feels totally remote

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