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
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television 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·LGBTQ+ Queer (BFI LFF Review) – erotic yet distant, beautiful but ugly and melancholic yet jubilant by Neil Baker 9th December 2024
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (BFI London Film Festival) review – enough twists and turns to satisfy fans of the classic whodunnit by Emma Duffy 11th November 2022
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Rewind The Best of Bond… James Bond: Sixty years of vodka martinis, Machiavellian villains and masterful action by Neil Baker 24th July 2022
Film and Television·Rewind Road to Perdition (2002) – a story populated by ghosts and haunted by past choices by Neil Baker 24th July 2022
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Knives Out (BFI London Film Festival) review – a glorious modern whodunit full of humour, wit, energy and charm by Neil Baker 11th October 2019
1 7 Miles Out (BFI London Film Festival) review: Carol Morley’s coming-of-age film enthrals, delights and brings a tear to the eye
2 Elephants in the Fog (BFI London Film Festival) review: Abinash Bikram Shah’s debut feature is a masterclass in atmospheric immersion
3 The Nature of Forgetting (review): Movement, images and live music explore human life and relationships in Theatre Re’s striking production
4 Counterattack: Youth (review): A real pub setting elevates the intimacy between four lifelong friends in Gain Amy Park’s drama
5 Black Church Bay (BFI London Film Festival) review: Jones film is muddy, grey and open-ended as its knotty, unnerving tale unfolds
6 Josephine (BFI London Film Festival) review: De Anaújo and team cut to the bone of dense issues with devastating precision
7 Coward (BFI London Film Festival) review: Achingly beautiful and deeply intimate, this is Lukas Dhont’s best film to date
8 Whalefall (review): Austin Abrams is swallowed whole by a sperm whale in a bizarre rather than exciting survival movie
9 TV Choice: Brad Caleb Kane breathes new life into the Friday the 13th franchise this Halloween as we return to Crystal Lake
10 Iván & Hadoum (BFI London Film Festival) review: Ian de la Rosa’s sun-drenched love story is tender, real and organic in construction
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