Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Short Films The Souffleur (BFI London Film Festival) review – the inner turmoil of a man caught in the headlights of apparent change and progress by Neil Baker 20th October 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Duino ‘Before We Forget’ (review) – a poignant and personal portrait of first love, memory and artistic healing by Neil Baker 18th October 2024
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films The Male Gaze: Boy Trouble (NQV Media) review – four short films that explore the ground-shaking power of a single encounter by Neil Baker 9th April 2024
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films Cinéorama BFI Flare 2023: Quick Read Reviews by Neil Baker 26th 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
Editors' Choice·Film and Television Nocturna: Side A and Side B (review) – memories, choices and decisions collide in the final moments of life by Neil Baker 15th January 2022
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ BFI London Film Festival 2020 (reviews) – our quick read film reviews from the 64th edition of the festival by Neil Baker 17th October 2020
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ End of the Century (BFI London Film Festival) review – a powerful journey into memory, regret and desire by Neil Baker 22nd September 2019
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Men of Hard Skin (BFI Flare 2019) review – sex, abuse and control against a backdrop of community acceptance and lies by Neil Baker 25th March 2019
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Cinéorama BFI London Film Festival 2018 (reviews) by Neil Baker 22nd October 2018
1 The Last Bath (review) – a contemplative exploration of devotion, temptation, guilt and doubt that gently grips the audience
2 Ah Girl (TIFF) review: Ang Geck Geck Priscilla shows remarkable skills with child performers in her intimate and bittersweet drama
3 Just an Illusion (review) – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age film is a pure delight
4 CATS (review) – The open-air theatre in Regent’s Park becomes the cats’ secret world in this masterful new production
5 The Edinburgh Fringe Award-winning, wickedly funny and unflinching Goblin takes to the stage at the Park Theatre this November
6 Tom Daley adds the final stitch to the giant ‘Baa-Ewe’ Tapestry celebrating Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
7 The Oresteia (review): What Stone brings from Greek tragedy into the present is not the myth but the people
8 Saturday Night Live UK announces Jeff Goldblum as the first host of the new series and the addition of Freddie Meredith to the cast
9 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
10 Her Worm (review) – a deliciously dark, lovingly crafted short film that asks us all to reflect on the real parasites in our midst
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