Film and Television We take a first look at the delightfully dark and kooky mayhem of Wednesday (season two) on Netflix by Neil Baker 3rd August 2025
Editors' Choice·LGBTQ+·Theatre A Role to Die For (review) – Jordan Waller’s play sparkles like a freshly opened bottle of vintage Dom Pérignon by Neil Baker 1st August 2025
Film and Television The Naked Gun (review) – anyone who’s been missing a good parody film need fret no longer by Calum Cooper 30th July 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Short Films Headcase (Fantasia Film Festival) short film review – a wickedly sharp, blood-soaked exploration of wannabe influencer culture by Neil Baker 30th July 2025
Film and Television The Bad Guys 2 (review) – colourful and playfully silly, with the occasional bit of thematic meat to its animated bones by Calum Cooper 26th July 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Short Films Shrimp Fried Rice (Fantasia Film Festival) short film review – sizzling, satisfying, scrumptious, and smart by Neil Baker 25th July 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Hold the Fort (Fantasia Film Festival) review – a bonkers, brilliant and bloody rollercoaster of pure unadulterated fun by Neil Baker 19th July 2025
Editors' Choice·LGBTQ+·Theatre Four Play (review) – a heartfelt, hilarious, and tender exploration of the complexities of love, sex, and honesty by Neil Baker 17th July 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Music and Dance·Theatre Created by the award-winning duo behind 42 Balloons, Hot Mess, a new pop musical, is set to transfer to Southwark Playhouse Elephant by Neil Baker 15th July 2025
Theatre BAFTA award-winning writers, Marks and Gran are to debut a new reimagined history play, Dr Freud Will See You Now, Mrs Hitler by Neil Baker 14th July 2025
1 The Male Gaze: Goodbye Love (review): NQV Media presents a tender, powerful collection of short films exploring endings and beginnings
2 The Last Bath (review) – a contemplative exploration of devotion, temptation, guilt and doubt that gently grips the audience
3 Ah Girl (TIFF) review: Ang Geck Geck Priscilla shows remarkable skills with child performers in her intimate and bittersweet drama
4 Just an Illusion (review) – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age film is a pure delight
5 CATS (review) – The open-air theatre in Regent’s Park becomes the cats’ secret world in this masterful new production
6 The Edinburgh Fringe Award-winning, wickedly funny and unflinching Goblin takes to the stage at the Park Theatre this November
7 Tom Daley adds the final stitch to the giant ‘Baa-Ewe’ Tapestry celebrating Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
8 The Oresteia (review): What Stone brings from Greek tragedy into the present is not the myth but the people
9 Saturday Night Live UK announces Jeff Goldblum as the first host of the new series and the addition of Freddie Meredith to the cast
10 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
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