Film and Television Celebrity Race Across The World is back, and the BBC has just announced this year’s line-up by Neil Baker 31st July 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Lost Boys and Fairies (BBC One) review – a sublime and unconventional TV drama that deserves considerable praise by Neil Baker 6th June 2024
Film and Television What to Watch: Race Across the World (Series 1 to 3) and Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour on BBC iPlayer by Neil Baker 15th May 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Television The Traitors (series two) BBC One – nail-biting drama of the highest degree by Neil Baker 24th January 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Television Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road (BBC One) review – a fresh and new embrace of fantasy adventure by Neil Baker 26th December 2023
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Rewind The Classic Doctor Who Collection (1970-1981) by Neil Baker 17th November 2023
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate (Netflix) review – a powerful, emotional and urgent exploration of our shared LGBTQ+ history by Neil Baker 4th November 2023
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Rewind The Classic Doctor Who Collection (1963-1969) by Neil Baker 2nd November 2023
Film and Television The Reckoning (BBC One) review – one of the most powerful and urgent TV dramas of the past decade by Neil Baker 10th October 2023
Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Changing Ends and Beautiful People: Growing up gay in ’80s and ’90s Britain was no walk in the park by Neil Baker 2nd June 2023
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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