By: Steve Dinneen

Life&Style Editor I'm the editor of CityAM The Magazine, and editor of the daily newspaper's Life&Style section. We cover food, wine, going out, culture, technology and travel. I'm also the head judge of our Toast the City awards that celebrates hospitality in the Square Mile. Find me on X @steve_dinneen

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Bugonia review: Emma Stone denies being an alien

October 16, 2025

Since his 2015 breakthrough The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos has become one of Hollywood’s stranger indie darlings, known for injecting macabre tales with the adrenaline shot of star power, often in the form of Emma Stone. Bugonia, for the most part, is one of his more straightforward movies, certainly compared to the gothic weirdness of Poor [...]
& Sons review: Bill Nighy is immense in family drama with a twist

October 16, 2025

In 2022’s Living, Bill Nighy played a dapper old gent grappling with his mortality amid the realisation life has largely passed him by. In many ways, Argentinian director Pablo Trapero’s English language debut & Sons is the equal and opposite of that film, following a broken, decrepit husk of a man who has long-since achieved [...]
Best of the fest: 9 of the best London Film Festival movies to book

October 16, 2025

Anemone, After The Hunt, Is This Thing On? and much more: The best of London Film Festival, and when to catch these films in cinemas No Other Choice Dir. Park Chan-wook No Other Choice is a sprawling, pitch-black farce that starts out as a corporate satire and morphs into something so singular and distinct I’m [...]
After the Hunt: Luca Guadagnino’s MeToo drama misfires

October 15, 2025

Luca Guadagnino’s films tackle the big questions: “What if tennis players were sexy?” “What if Suspiria was boring?” “What if a man had sex with fruit?” His latest, After the Hunt, asks an altogether more controversial question: “What if we shouldn’t believe women?” This post-post-MeToo parable has the dubious honour of capturing the cultural crossroads [...]
Anemone review: Daniel Day-Lewis returns in his son’s debut film

October 15, 2025

After starring in some of the most iconic movies of the last 40 years – Gangs of New York, There Will Be Blood, The Age of Innocence – Daniel Day-Lewis retired after 2017’s Phantom Thread. Perhaps the most famous of the method actors, his commitment to the bit – three years in the gym for [...]
No Other Choice review: Is Park Chan-wook satire a new Parasite?

October 15, 2025

You could make a case for Park Chan-wook having the most absurdly varied CV of any living director. Coming to international attention in 2003 with cult classic revenge movie Oldboy, his oeuvre includes steamy psychological thriller Stoker, disturbing erotica The Handmaiden and romantic neo-noir Decision to Leave. Next up is No Other Choice, a sprawling, [...]
LFF film review: Ballad of a Small Player sees Colin Farrell at his absolute peak

October 13, 2025

Conclave director Edward Berger is a long way from the hallowed halls of the Vatican in his new film, a surreal neon noir following a down-and-out gambler through the casinos of Macau. Ballad of a Small Player tells the story of Lord Doyle, a dapper aristocrat who seems to have misplaced his silver spoon. When [...]
Gabon president drops out of FT Africa Summit after CityAM story

October 13, 2025

Last week The Capitalist reported on the controversial opening speaker at the FT’s upcoming Africa Summit: the Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema, who stands accused of kidnapping and torturing the family of his predecessor. The FT press office brushed off our suggestion that hosting Nguema on 22 October might not align with the newspaper’s brand [...]
Margate House: A super-stylish long weekend away

October 13, 2025

Margate is a place of contradictions, gentrified yet still infused with an unmistakable sense of character. Wandering its blustery streets reveals a town that’s at once affluent and deprived, sometimes on the same street. It’s now more famous for its robust arts scene than it is for penny arcades and fish and chips, with a [...]
Apple AirPods Pro 3 take ‘great’ and make it ‘brilliant’

October 10, 2025

It’s been three years since Apple released its AirPods Pro 2: they were already among the best earbuds on the market and with the new AirPods Pro 3, they just got much, much better. They’re a commuter’s dream. The active noise cancellation (ANC) alone almost blocks out the terrible wailing of the Northern Line between [...]

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