Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film Reviews·LGBTQ+·Short Films Yellow Bucket (BFI London Film Festival) short film review – Simon Brooke’s delightful short carries a surprising emotional punch by Neil Baker 12th October 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film Reviews·LGBTQ+ The Holy Boy (BFI London Film Festival) review – a fierce, formidable, and heartbreaking coming-of-age horror by Neil Baker 11th October 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film Reviews·LGBTQ+ Twinless (review) – Sweeney’s film certainly isn’t identical to any other film out there; it’s a one-of-a-kind by Neil Baker 26th September 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film and TV News Hikari’s Rental Family has been announced as the American Express Gala at the 69th BFI London Film Festival by Neil Baker 14th August 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film and TV News Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is to open the 69th BFI London Film Festival by Neil Baker 5th August 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film Reviews A Real Pain (review) – a life-affirming road trip that will leave many teary-eyed by Calum Cooper 8th January 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film Reviews·LGBTQ+ Queer (BFI LFF Review) – erotic yet distant, beautiful but ugly and melancholic yet jubilant by Neil Baker 9th December 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film Reviews Anora (BFI LFF Review) – an electric tale of sex, transactional love, and youthful fantasy vs stark reality by Neil Baker 30th November 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film Reviews Conclave (BFI LFF Review) – Berger turns a mundane religious ritual into a hypnotic game of power by Calum Cooper 28th November 2024
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film Reviews Rumours (review) – cinema at its most imaginative, cutting, and bizarre by Neil Baker 24th November 2024
1 No Rest for the Wicked (Fantasia Film Festival) review – hauntingly beautiful, Kalle’s adaptation of Ulrichs’ Manor is unmissable 23rd July 2026
2 Pinocchio: Unstrung (review) – Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s movie is a sordid, cynical and shoddy exploitation flick with even cheaper ethics 23rd July 2026
3 Animal Farm (2026) review – Serkis’s film butchers Orwell’s source material so thoroughly it could be branded animal cruelty 21st July 2026
4 The Virgin Suicides (2000) rewind review – Sophia Coppola’s film is a girlhood classic that balances sweetness, sweatiness and sorrow 21st July 2026
5 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
6 Attack on Paradise (Fantasia Film Festival) review – a high-octane crime action thriller that never quite reaches its full potential 20th July 2026
7 The Odyssey (review) – rapturous, spellbinding entertainment – an epic cinematic experience to match its enduring source material 19th July 2026
8 Tight Lettuce (Fantasia Film Festival) review – when does care become enabling, and who dictates when that line has been crossed? 19th July 2026
9 Pimple (Fantasia Film Festival) review – Alle’s story of a toxic pimple, a sebum monster and bullies about to meet a sticky end is a delight 19th July 2026
10 Royal Court Young Playwrights Award 2026 – less like a competition and more like an investment in the future of British theatre 18th July 2026
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