Film and Television The Roses (review) – a pale imitation of DeVito’s superior film rather than a modern interpretation of the same story by Calum Cooper 27th August 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television The Thing with Feathers (Berlinale Review) – Southern’s film wraps us in its wings and reminds us that dawn follows even the darkest of nights by Neil Baker 23rd February 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Eric – (Netflix) review – a gritty, dark story of oppression, denial, and psychological damage by Neil Baker 6th June 2024
Film and Television Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (review) – mad and multiversal or a mediocre misfire? by Sabastian Astley 8th May 2022
Film and Television Spider-Man: No Way Home (review) – Jon Watts brings us the best Spider-Man film to date by Sabastian Astley 17th December 2021
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television The Power of the Dog (BFI London Film Festival) review – Campion returns with a stunning psychological thriller by Neil Baker 12th November 2021
Film and Television The Mauritanian (Prime Video) review – Tahar Rahim shines in Kevin MacDonald’s unflinching legal drama by Sabastian Astley 27th March 2021
Film and Television The Current War (review) – what should have been a bright historical drama is more of a mediocre glow by Neil Baker 27th July 2019
1 Just an Illusion (review) – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age film is a pure delight
2 CATS (review) – The open-air theatre in Regent’s Park becomes the cats’ secret world in this masterful new production
3 The Edinburgh Fringe Award-winning, wickedly funny and unflinching Goblin takes to the stage at the Park Theatre this November
4 Tom Daley adds the final stitch to the giant ‘Baa-Ewe’ Tapestry celebrating Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
5 The Oresteia (review): What Stone brings from Greek tragedy into the present is not the myth but the people
6 Saturday Night Live UK announces Jeff Goldblum as the first host of the new series and the addition of Freddie Meredith to the cast
7 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
8 Her Worm (review) – a deliciously dark, lovingly crafted short film that asks us all to reflect on the real parasites in our midst
9 Blue Film: Elliot Tuttle on his provocative, nuanced, artistically ambitious exploration of trauma, memory, identity and guilt
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