Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film and TV News·Theatre·Theatre News Danny Robins’ new live show Uncanny: Fear of the Dark will tour the UK from September 2025 by Neil Baker 28th February 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film Reviews The Thing with Feathers (Berlinale Review) – Southern’s film wraps us in its wings and reminds us that dawn follows even the darkest of nights by Neil Baker 23rd February 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film Reviews·LGBTQ+ Sandbag Dam (Zečji Nasip) Berlinale Review – a river of suppressed feelings overflows in Čejen Černić Čanak’s powerful drama by Neil Baker 21st February 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film Reviews Mickey 17 (Berlinale Review) – Bong Joon Ho’s science fiction spectacle takes aim at events much closer to home by Neil Baker 20th February 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film Reviews The Seed of the Sacred Fig (review) – a riveting political drama as radical as it is suspenseful by Calum Cooper 12th February 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Dylan Llewellyn and Jon Pointing on the final series of Jack Rooke’s Big Boys by Neil Baker 10th February 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance·TV Love is all around with these Valentine’s Day treats on BBC iPlayer by Neil Baker 9th February 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film Reviews·Rewind·Rewind Reviews Revenge, rebellion and oppression in The Nightingale and True History of the Kelly Gang by Neil Baker 8th February 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film Reviews·TV The Substance (2024) – Calum Cooper on Coralie Fargeat’s squirm-inducing masterpiece by Calum Cooper 4th February 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film and TV News This City is Ours – First look at the new BBC crime drama by Neil Baker 28th January 2025
1 Home Bodies (Fantasia Film Festival) review – one of the most inventive, unique and enthralling science fiction films of the year 24th July 2026
2 No Rest for the Wicked (Fantasia Film Festival) review – hauntingly beautiful, Kalle’s adaptation of Ulrichs’ Manor is unmissable 23rd July 2026
3 Pinocchio: Unstrung (review) – Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s movie is a sordid, cynical and shoddy exploitation flick with even cheaper ethics 23rd July 2026
4 Animal Farm (2026) review – Serkis’s film butchers Orwell’s source material so thoroughly it could be branded animal cruelty 21st July 2026
5 The Virgin Suicides (2000) rewind review – Sophia Coppola’s film is a girlhood classic that balances sweetness, sweatiness and sorrow 21st July 2026
6 Blue Mist (UK Tour) review – Who has the authority to define another person’s story? And who decides what counts as an “authentic voice?” 21st July 2026
7 Attack on Paradise (Fantasia Film Festival) review – a high-octane crime action thriller that never quite reaches its full potential 20th July 2026
8 The Odyssey (review) – rapturous, spellbinding entertainment – an epic cinematic experience to match its enduring source material 19th July 2026
9 Tight Lettuce (Fantasia Film Festival) review – when does care become enabling, and who dictates when that line has been crossed? 19th July 2026
10 Pimple (Fantasia Film Festival) review – Alle’s story of a toxic pimple, a sebum monster and bullies about to meet a sticky end is a delight 19th July 2026
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