South American wine is booming – try these bottles for the best experience October 7, 2025 South American wine is booming for us Brits. An Argentinian Malbec has long been a gateway, converting consumers with broodingly smooth glasses of dark fruits and spice at a good price. Last year the UK overtook China as the largest importer (by value) of Chilean wine with their lithe Sauvignon Blancs and traditional Carmère. Even [...]
Horology and horse power: Car firms are getting in bed with watch brands October 7, 2025 Cars and watches are the ultimate partnership – and one that’s only getting stronger in the digital age, says Adam Hay-Nicholls Revolutions per minute. We could be talking about pistons punching inside a V8 engine, causing 30,000 explosions every sixty seconds. Or we could be discussing a hand on a chronograph sweeping the watch face [...]
Partnerships that pop: Why watch brands are turning to the booze October 7, 2025 From City PM The Magazine, Autumn edition, why are watch brands so drawn to drinks companies? Adam Hay-Nicholls quenches his thirst with the latest drinks collabs There’s that old saying ‘you are what you eat’ but I reckon what you drink says a lot more about a person. I can tell by the liquid in [...]
This Kate Moss movie at London Film Festival 2025 will be a massive talking point October 7, 2025 When you think of Kate Moss and men, the mind goes to Pete Doherty, or perhaps the Dazed Media editor Jefferson Hack, but there was another creative mind before them: Lucian Freud. The two shared an intense personal relationship in the early noughties when Freud, then in his eighties, painted Moss, then in her late [...]
The Weir review: Unmissable play returns after three decades October 6, 2025 The Weir | ★★★★★ | Harold Pinter Theatre Conor McPherson’s 1997 play The Weir has taken on an almost mythical status in the years since it was first staged. It’s now spoken of alongside Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem and Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, a seminal moment in modern British and Irish theatre and a formative work [...]
AI made this London Film Festival movie about love and loss October 6, 2025 Amid waves of criticism against AI, one film at London Film Festival 2025 has been proudly harnessing artificial intelligence. Memory of Princess Mumbi is set in a retro-futuristic Africa in 2093, and much of the landscapes and scenic shots have been developed using AI. Although the filmmaker Damien Hauser’s intentions were to “make a movie [...]
Inside Hundred Nights of Hero, the Charli xcx London Film Festival must-see film October 6, 2025 Charli xcx is taking a break from playing festival main stages and feuding with Taylor Swift to make her acting debut this month at the London Film Festival 2025. The musician has a remarkable seven films in production, including Hundred Nights of Hero, a historical fantasy film based on the book of the same name [...]
Is This Thing On? at London Film Festival 2025 is inspired by comedian John Bishop October 6, 2025 One of the most surprising films at the London Film Festival 2025 is surely Is This Thing On?, a comedy-drama loosely based on the rise of the British comedian John Bishop. The Liverpudlian is now one of Britain’s most famous acts, but he was fairly late to find fame, breaking through in his late-thirties and [...]
London Film Festival 2025: Londoners should just turn up, say organisers October 6, 2025 Organisers for this year’s London Film Festival 2025 are urging Londoners to just show up and see what’s available on the day. Many of the most popular films at the London Film Festival sell out immediately, so it can feel as if the festival is hard to attend, especially for the bigger screenings – but [...]
Rohtko at Barbican: Savage and gripping satire of the art world October 3, 2025 Rohtko at the Barbican | ★★★★★ Rohtko is one of the most astonishing pieces of work I’ve seen on a London stage. Created by Polish director Łukasz Twarkowski, it’s a genre-defying mash up of theatre, live cinema, installation art, dance and techno. The Barbican stage is filled with an ever-shifting series of sets built inside [...]
