Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Short Films Her Worm (review) – a deliciously dark, lovingly crafted short film that asks us all to reflect on the real parasites in our midst by Neil Baker 6th September 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films Geronto (review) – Sherwood and Pluck’s short film is a poignant, beautiful and powerful exploration of age-difference intimacy by Neil Baker 15th August 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Short Films 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 by Neil Baker 19th July 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films Lady Macbeth Was Never A Girl (review) – McBride and Dart’s film is a soft and thoughtful expression of shifting gender identity by Daisy Grace Greetham 11th July 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films Rose’s House (Sheffield DocFest) review – a historical and contemporary celebration of community, resilience, transformation and change by Neil Baker 13th June 2026
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Short Films Rare Birds (Tribeca Festival) review – Weisberg’s short film is about what it means to be human, and the social barriers that divide us by Neil Baker 11th June 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Short Films Verse (Tribeca Festival) review – Noam Argov explores the interface between our online and offline worlds in this urgent and timely short film by Neil Baker 6th June 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Short Films DISC (Tribeca Festival) review – Blake Rice’s one-night stand short is as acidically sweet as a lemon dipped in sugar by Oscar Aitchison 6th June 2026
Arts·Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Music and Dance·Short Films GENER8ION: VISIONS OF 2034, a new exhibition by Romain Gavras and Surkin to open at 180 Studios, London by Neil Baker 1st June 2026
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films Between Breath & Silence (review) – the finality of life, the power of love and the need to say all that’s been left unsaid by Neil Baker 28th May 2026
1 Just an Illusion (review) – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age film is a pure delight
2 CATS (review) – The open-air theatre in Regent’s Park becomes the cats’ secret world in this masterful new production
3 The Edinburgh Fringe Award-winning, wickedly funny and unflinching Goblin takes to the stage at the Park Theatre this November
4 Tom Daley adds the final stitch to the giant ‘Baa-Ewe’ Tapestry celebrating Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
5 The Oresteia (review): What Stone brings from Greek tragedy into the present is not the myth but the people
6 Saturday Night Live UK announces Jeff Goldblum as the first host of the new series and the addition of Freddie Meredith to the cast
7 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
8 Her Worm (review) – a deliciously dark, lovingly crafted short film that asks us all to reflect on the real parasites in our midst
9 Blue Film: Elliot Tuttle on his provocative, nuanced, artistically ambitious exploration of trauma, memory, identity and guilt
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