Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film Reviews·LGBTQ+ Supernova (BFI London Film Festival) review – an intimate and beautiful portrait of love in the face of loss by Neil Baker 11th October 2020
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film Reviews·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films The Italian Boys (NQV Media) – a rich tapestry of enthralling LGBTQ+ stories by Neil Baker 8th October 2020
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film Reviews The Tunnel (review) – a festive getaway turns into a fireball in Pål Øie’s polished disaster film by Neil Baker 21st September 2020
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film Reviews·Rewind·Rewind Reviews Christine (1983) rewind review – puts the pedal to the metal and, unlike many horrors, doesn’t run out of gas halfway through by Neil Baker 31st August 2020
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film Reviews·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films The Male Gaze: Strikers and Defenders (NQV Media) review – four shorts exploring themes of coming of age, desire and masculinity by Neil Baker 29th July 2020
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film Reviews·LGBTQ+ I Am Jonas ‘Jonas’ (review) – a profoundly moving and powerful story of individual healing and painful acceptance by Neil Baker 17th July 2020
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film Reviews·Rewind·Rewind Reviews Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) – a film that genuinely shook the landscape of filmmaking and, with it, audience expectations by Neil Baker 1st July 2020
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Welcome to Chechnya (Sheffield DocFest) review – the atrocities of state-orchestrated hate and the indifference of global governments by Neil Baker 20th June 2020
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film Reviews·Rewind·Rewind Reviews Benny’s Video (1992) – Haneke’s cutting exploration of failed parenting, guilt, and the effect of media on adolescent behaviour by Neil Baker 28th April 2020
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film Reviews·LGBTQ+ Moffie (review) – repression, suppression, desire and discrimination in a country torn apart by apartheid by Neil Baker 27th April 2020
1 The Wolf (review) – an observational meditation on queer love and life in contemporary China 25th July 2026
2 Robota (review) – the Schwarzman Centre reimagines Čapek’s classic in examining what it means to be human in the age of AI 25th July 2026
3 Home Bodies (Fantasia Film Festival) review – one of the most inventive, unique and enthralling science fiction films of the year 24th July 2026
4 No Rest for the Wicked (Fantasia Film Festival) review – hauntingly beautiful, Kalle’s adaptation of Ulrichs’ Manor is unmissable 23rd July 2026
5 Pinocchio: Unstrung (review) – Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s movie is a sordid, cynical and shoddy exploitation flick with even cheaper ethics 23rd July 2026
6 Animal Farm (2026) review – Serkis’s film butchers Orwell’s source material so thoroughly it could be branded animal cruelty 21st July 2026
7 The Virgin Suicides (2000) rewind review – Sophia Coppola’s film is a girlhood classic that balances sweetness, sweatiness and sorrow 21st July 2026
8 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
9 Attack on Paradise (Fantasia Film Festival) review – a high-octane crime action thriller that never quite reaches its full potential 20th July 2026
10 The Odyssey (review) – rapturous, spellbinding entertainment – an epic cinematic experience to match its enduring source material 19th July 2026
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