Editors' Choice·Film and Television TV Choice: Finding Father Christmas (Channel 4) – Lenny Rush and James Buckley discuss Christmas in late summer and festive traditions by Neil Baker 13th December 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television TV Choice: Two Doors Down Christmas Special (BBC One) – It’s time to return to Latimer Crescent for some festive neighbourly chaos by Neil Baker 10th December 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Rewind Calum Cooper picks his top 10 festive films from A Christmas Story to Little Women and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation by Calum Cooper 2nd December 2025
Arts·Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance TV Choice: What’s waiting under the tree on Netflix this Christmas by Neil Baker 27th November 2025
Arts·Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Music and Dance TV Choice: Unwrap a mountain of festive gifts this Christmas across the BBC by Neil Baker 25th November 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Rewind Hugo (2011) Rewind review – Scorsese celebrates Méliès artistry and vision through a fantastic clockwork world by Neil Baker 3rd December 2024
Film and Television·Rewind Jack Frost (1998) rewind review – It may be somewhat dark and occasionally clumsy, but Troy Miller’s film wears its heart on its sleeve by Neil Baker 1st December 2024
Arts·Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Music and Dance TV Choice: Celebrate Christmas across the BBC with our pick of 2024’s best festive shows by Neil Baker 1st December 2024
Film and Television Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (review) – a festive mosaic of collective and individual memory by Neil Baker 23rd November 2024
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films Christmas, 1978 (short film) review: Silence leads to separation in rural Devon as Lara Fullalove’s beautifully shot short unfolds by Neil Baker 10th November 2024
1 User Manual for a Broken Machine (review): Words, movement and music combine to explore personal and social histories
2 Minotaur (BFI London Film Festival) review: Zvyagintsev’s film is a grim, gripping and haunting cinematic experience
3 Julie Hesmondhalgh will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the inaugural Great British Theatres Awards this November
4 Studiocanal Classics has announced the 20th Anniversary 4K Re-release of Guillermo Del Toro’s masterpiece Pan’s Labyrinth
5 7 Miles Out (BFI London Film Festival) review: Carol Morley’s coming-of-age film enthrals, delights and brings a tear to the eye
6 Elephants in the Fog (BFI London Film Festival) review: Abinash Bikram Shah’s debut feature is a masterclass in atmospheric immersion
7 The Nature of Forgetting (review): Movement, images and live music explore human life and relationships in Theatre Re’s striking production
8 Counterattack: Youth (review): A real pub setting elevates the intimacy between four lifelong friends in Gain Amy Park’s drama
9 Black Church Bay (BFI London Film Festival) review: Jones film is muddy, grey and open-ended as its knotty, unnerving tale unfolds
10 Josephine (BFI London Film Festival) review: De Anaújo and team cut to the bone of dense issues with devastating precision
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