Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Attack on Paradise (Fantasia Film Festival) review – a high-octane crime action thriller that never quite reaches its full potential by Neil Baker 20th July 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Rewind Hormonal Highs – six hot and heavy films that take us from a dance floor in New York to an isolated Blue Lagoon by Neil Baker 8th June 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television L’Étranger (The Stranger) review – Ozon’s masterful adaptation is an alluring and challenging exploration of the absurdity of justice by Neil Baker 18th March 2026
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Truly Naked (Berlinale) review – d’Ansembourg’s film is daring and explicit, yet always sensitive in its complex discourse by Neil Baker 19th February 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Mikko Mäkelä discusses Sebastian, intimacy, art, and sex work in the digital age by Neil Baker 3rd April 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Sebastian (review) – Mikko Mäkelä’s fearless exploration of sex and artistic immersion is bold, enthralling and enticing by Neil Baker 5th July 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films Un invincible été “Invincible Summer” (Berlinale) review – the celebrated beauty of youth and the invisibility of old age by Neil Baker 24th February 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Young Hearts (Berlinale Review) – a beautiful portrait of the emotions, uncertainties, and excitement of first love by Neil Baker 23rd February 2024
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 Misha and the Wolves (Sundance London) review – Hobkinson dismantles the very genre he embraces by Sabastian Astley 31st July 2021
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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