By: Adam Bloodworth

Features Journalist Adam Bloodworth is a features journalist focusing on culture and lifestyle. He often writes about film, music, TV, theatre, and the way we live our lives in the capital.

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Will Smith should get the sack – his violence wouldn’t be tolerated in an office

March 29, 2022

It’s bizarre to think of Will Smith getting the sack. He probably doesn’t ‘need’ work in financial terms, so being let go has a lesser value for him than others, but nevertheless he should be booted out. Yesterday at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Smith physically assaulted Oscars host Chris Rock live on stage [...]
BFI Flare festival: The best LGBTQ films from the festival to watch at home

March 28, 2022

BFI Flare LGBTQ film festival has rolled to a close for another year. Returning to premiere more queer short films and feature-lengths in 2023, here’s a remedy if you’ve got withdrawal already: a selection of some of the best films from across this year’s festival. First up, read our feature on the festival, where we [...]
Clybourne Park review: Satire on race lacks emotional depth

March 25, 2022

Bruce Norris’ clever play about the way racism lurks in the suburbs was a knock-out when it premiered twelve years ago. It bagged Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. So it should have: its script points out the systemic prejudices that are in many ways as pervasive today [...]
Phantom of the Open review: Mark Rylance scores hole-in-one with hilarious underdog tale

March 22, 2022

This Mark Rylance comedy-drama is perhaps the most twee film you’ll see this decade, but it’s genuinely heart-warming too, with endless hits of proper comedy. It’s not the year’s first joyous tale of a working class British underdog. The Duke, starring Jim Broadbent as an elderly campaigner against BBC television licensing, was in a similar [...]
Cock review: Bridgerton’s new leading man has a sexy existential crisis

March 17, 2022

This stylish new version of 2009’s queer breakthrough play Cock asks why we define ourselves by the people we have sex with. The high-budget production is a million miles away from the play’s humble roots Upstairs at the Royal Court, where it premiered to 80 people, and director Marianne Elliott takes full advantage of the [...]
Doctor Foster and Cock writer Mike Bartlett: ‘Solve problems in the theatre, not online’

March 17, 2022

You might not know his name but Mike Bartlett’s one of the most successful storytellers in Britain. His hit TV show Doctor Foster drew in almost 10 million viewers an episode in 2017, an unprecedented number given last year’s most-watched Christmas Day show attracted 7.4 million. He’s also prolific: since the millennium he’s penned 24 [...]
Can the world’s first climate change escape room really help us change the ways we act?

March 11, 2022

I’m standing in what used to be a Paul Smith store in Covent Garden, but instead of browsing for snazzy striped shirts I’m on my hands and knees, poking my head through a hole in a table and blowing air at a model wind turbine. Can I simulate the process of making green energy all [...]
Red Rocket review: Majestic career high for former porn star who partied with Paris Hilton

March 11, 2022

Red Rocket isn’t the first cinematic reminder we’ve had this year that penises make for hilarious viewing. Jackass Forever, the year’s most unlikely hit, was basically middle-aged men getting laughs from their appendages. This indie is going in for a slice of the same pie, although the silly jokes sit alongside a serious message about [...]
Small Island review at the NT: A fabulous play about racial injustice

March 11, 2022

The small island is Jamaica but then again it is also Britain: this brilliant play explores the injustices faced by the people who arrived on our shores in the 1940s in search of a better life, only to be met with violence and hostility. One of the play’s great strengths is how it makes audiences [...]
A look towards this year’s BFI Flare LGBTQ film festival

March 10, 2022

During the height of The Gateway club’s popularity in the 1960s, Mick Jagger turned up and begged for entry. He knew this was a space for women only but he wasn’t taking no for an answer. “He said ‘Go on Gina, I’ll wear a dress,’” recalls Jacquie Lawrence, director of a new documentary on the [...]

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