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Cinerama Film UK is a not-for-profit site (we believe in social, educational, or community benefit rather than profit), run and managed by volunteers. All advertising revenue goes into website maintenance and development, and advertising is restricted to ensure it does not impede your reading. 

We are proud voting members of GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ+ Entertainment Critics and The Doc Society. Images and videos are used with the direct permission of studios, theatres, production companies, and distributors and are not to be reproduced.

Articles are the intellectual property of the author and Cinerama Film UK. Cinerama Film UK is proud to bring you coverage of UK and international arts, theatre, and film festivals, including Berlinale, BFI Flare, Tribeca, SXSW London, Frightfest, Fantasia International Festival, Sheffield DocFest, BFI London Film Festival, and more.

Our Writers

Are you an aspiring or early-career arts and culture writer with a passion for film, art, theatre, events, music, literature or LGBTQ+? If you are 18+, looking to grow your portfolio, why not join us and make Cinerama your home as a volunteer writer? Contact us below.

Neil Baker

Founder and Editor in Chief
Voting member of GALECA - The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and the Documentary Film Council (UK)

  1. Home Bodies (Fantasia Film Festival) review – one of the most inventive, unique and enthralling science fiction films of the year
  2. No Rest for the Wicked (Fantasia Film Festival) review – hauntingly beautiful, Kalle’s adaptation of Ulrichs’ Manor is unmissable

Calum Cooper

Lead Film Critic

  1. Pinocchio: Unstrung (review) – Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s movie is a sordid, cynical and shoddy exploitation flick with even cheaper ethics
  2. Animal Farm (2026) review – Serkis’s film butchers Orwell’s source material so thoroughly it could be branded animal cruelty

Daisy Grace Greetham

Contributing Writer

  1. The Wolf (review) – an observational meditation on queer love and life in contemporary China
  2. The Virgin Suicides (2000) rewind review – Sophia Coppola’s film is a girlhood classic that balances sweetness, sweatiness and sorrow

Oscar Aitchison

Contributing Writer

  1. Cactus Pears (review) – a triumph of naturalistic storytelling that struggles to hold the screen in its lighter moments
  2. DISC (Tribeca Festival) review – Blake Rice’s one-night stand short is as acidically sweet as a lemon dipped in sugar

Jane Jung

Contributing Writer

  1. Robota (review) – the Schwarzman Centre reimagines Čapek’s classic in examining what it means to be human in the age of AI
  2. Blue Mist (UK Tour) review – Who has the authority to define another person’s story? And who decides what counts as an “authentic voice?”

Rino Lu

Contributing Writer

  1. La Carn (SXSW London) review – the obsession with random sex chats leads to a problematic question of consent
  2. Montreal, My Beautiful (BFI Flare) review – Joan Chen shines in an unreservedly bold and intimate study of a migrant family in flux

Yasmine Chan

  1. Mother Mary (review) – a woman trying to reconcile who she is with the version of herself that everyone else seems to recognise

Past writers include: Agnes Sajti, Sabastian Astley, Jasmine Valentine, Niall Glynn and Emma Duffy.

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Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Human Rights

We believe art, journalism, and culture bring us together, challenge us and enable us to celebrate our diversity, sense of belonging and feelings of connection. For Cinerama Film UK, equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights are the foundation stones of our website, our writing and our volunteering culture. We welcome volunteer writers from across the world to join us, ensuring a diversity of voices and opinions, and we always value and celebrate the unique role that arts and culture play in bringing us together to explore, debate, and celebrate the tapestry of cultures, languages, and traditions that make up our global human family.

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