Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films The Perpetrators (short film) BFI Flare review – an urgent and atmospheric inquiry into the state-sanctioned oppression of gay men. by Neil Baker 25th March 2023
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films The Male Gaze: Shadows on Skin (NQV Media) review – four sizzling films exploring male sex and desire by Neil Baker 1st March 2023
Film and Television·NQV Short Films·Short Films Boys Feels: Stand By Me (NQV Media) review – the need for a companion, friend or brother when the pressures of adolescence descend by Neil Baker 21st November 2022
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Short Films Moshari (BFI London Film Festival) review – Humayan crafts this near-apocalyptic world with remarkable efficiency by Emma Duffy 10th October 2022
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films The Dependent Variables (BFI London Film Festival) review – the joy, uncertainty, and longing of a gentle and tentative sexual awakening by Neil Baker 5th October 2022
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films North Star (short film) review – a passionate, beautiful and delicate discussion on love, loss and family by Neil Baker 12th September 2022
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films The Aussie Boys (NQV Media) review – seven road-trip shorts exploring departures, arrivals and revelations by Neil Baker 3rd September 2022
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Short Films FrightFest Bites 2022 – a collection of quick read reviews from this year’s FrightFest London by Neil Baker 18th August 2022
Film and Television·Short Films Champ (Short Film) review – a powerful exploration of parental influence, separation and a toxic and twisted love by Neil Baker 1st July 2022
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films The Male Gaze: Fleeting Glances (NQV Media) – the random moments, meetings and connections that shape our hopes and desires by Neil Baker 4th June 2022
1 Ah Girl (TIFF) review: Ang Geck Geck Priscilla shows remarkable skills with child performers in her intimate and bittersweet drama
2 Just an Illusion (review) – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age film is a pure delight
3 CATS (review) – The open-air theatre in Regent’s Park becomes the cats’ secret world in this masterful new production
4 The Edinburgh Fringe Award-winning, wickedly funny and unflinching Goblin takes to the stage at the Park Theatre this November
5 Tom Daley adds the final stitch to the giant ‘Baa-Ewe’ Tapestry celebrating Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
6 The Oresteia (review): What Stone brings from Greek tragedy into the present is not the myth but the people
7 Saturday Night Live UK announces Jeff Goldblum as the first host of the new series and the addition of Freddie Meredith to the cast
8 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
9 Her Worm (review) – a deliciously dark, lovingly crafted short film that asks us all to reflect on the real parasites in our midst
10 Blue Film: Elliot Tuttle on his provocative, nuanced, artistically ambitious exploration of trauma, memory, identity and guilt
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