By: Steve Dinneen

Life&Style Editor I'm the editor of City A.M. The Magazine, and editor of the daily newspaper's Life&Style section. We cover food, going out, art, technology and travel.

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Captain Fantastic review: Viggo Mortensen road-trip movie can’t rescue depressingly cliched indie effort

September 6, 2016

Captain Fantastic hints at a fresh take on the American indie movie, but lapses disappointingly into a series of cliched genre tropes dressed up with pretty lens flare. We meet the Cash family – father Ben and his six children aged from eight to 18 – as they stalk a deer through lush woodland, killing [...]
Veronica Scanner at Royal Academy: how you can be made into a 3D bust in the RA’s latest exhibition

September 2, 2016

This Royal Academy exhibition asks how the latest technology – specifically the new crop of sophisticated 3D printers – fits into the artistic canon. In one of the strangest shows of the year, the RA has borrowed a gigantic 96-camera 3D scanner – it’s come all the way from Madrid – in order to create lifelike [...]
Why Dappad online clothing delivery service is a genuinely impressive style tool

August 31, 2016

We ordered a hamper from online clothing delivery service Dappad and this is what happened… What? Dappad is one of a host of online clothing delivery companies that sends a hamper full of designer and high-street threads to your home or office: keep what you like and send the rest back (for free). How does [...]
Cha Chaan Teng review: why this Holborn restaurant is like Miley Cyrus twerking

August 30, 2016

The liberal food world tied itself in knots last month when Girls creator Lena Dunham suggested that her alma mater serving terrible banh mi and sushi could be classed as cultural appropriation. The story is largely bollocks, of course – many have pointed out that a handful of students (quite rightly) saying that pulled pork [...]
Great British Menu chef Adam Handling’s TripAdvisor meltdown, in which he calls customer an imbecile who should stick to McDonald’s

August 30, 2016

Great British Menu contestant Adam Handling has branded a customer “the prime example of an imbecile” who should “stick in McDonalds”. The head chef at new restaurant The Frog was responding to a negative review on TripAdvisor, saying the online critic was “just stupid”, “lead[s] a very sad life”, and suggesting even McDonald's would be out [...]
Julieta review – Pedro Almodóvar’s story of love, loss and grief is compelling and beautiful

August 25, 2016

After the high-camp of I’m So Excited and the queasy body-horror of The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodóvar returns to his roots with a story that shines a light into the dark recesses of grief. It initially appears to be a modern noir, a detective story complete with moody jazz soundtrack, albeit one drenched [...]
The Purge: Election Year review – this take-down of Donald Trump’s politics is a joyous satirical juggernaut

August 25, 2016

The Purge franchise, now on its third iteration, takes a simple, silly premise – that for one night every year all crime is legal – and holds onto it like a rottweiler on a toddler’s arm. The first instalment, starring Ethan Hawke, was a straight-forward home invasion thriller, Panic Room by way of The Strangers, [...]
David Brent: Life on the Road review: Ricky Gervais plays his excruciating old hits one more time

August 18, 2016

Ricky Gervais may have captured the zeitgeist with The Office, but he’s reminded us often enough in the 13 years since it finished that it’s a bar he’s not always capable of hitting. This movie spin-off shows he can still play those toe-curling greatest hits, even if his film isn’t exactly brimming with new ideas. [...]
Groundhog Day at the Old Vic review: Tim Minchin’s follow-up to Matilda is a bawdy, hilarious modern-day Dickens tale

August 18, 2016

At the opening of Groundhog Day I overheard David Walliams say to writer Tim Minchin: “This better be bloody good.” He was saying what everyone was thinking: there’s an absurd amount of expectation heaped on Minchin’s first musical since 2010’s Matilda, a level of hype perhaps not seen since The Book of Mormon. So it’s just as [...]
Why Mallorca is up there with Tuscany as one of Europe’s top retreats

August 15, 2016

In the first half of the 20th century, Mallorca was a relatively poor island, its inhabitants eking out a largely pastoral existence. But the Balearics, which include Mallorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera, boast some of the most stunning scenery in the world, especially the former, by far the biggest of the four main islands, which [...]

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