Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ No Rest for the Wicked (Fantasia Film Festival) review – hauntingly beautiful, Kalle’s adaptation of Ulrichs’ Manor is unmissable by Neil Baker 23rd July 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Rewind Land of Mine ‘Under Sandet’ (2015) rewind review – Zandvliet’s film is a stark exploration of anger, retribution and intergenerational trauma by Neil Baker 17th January 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television The Girl with the Needle (review) – Magnus von Horn’s dark and terrifying tale writhes with pain and sorrow by Neil Baker 7th January 2025
Film and Television·LGBTQ+ One of the Boys (Viaplay) review – a summer camp of revelations, hidden desire and uncertain love by Neil Baker 1st August 2023
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films Upon Her Lips: Touch and Go (NQV Media) review – four shorts that explore the power of a single human touch by Neil Baker 8th June 2023
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Rewind Kings & Queens – a coronation-worthy collection of movies and shows by Neil Baker 6th May 2023
Film and Television·NQV Short Films·Short Films Boys Feels: Stand By Me (NQV Media) review – the need for a companion, friend or brother when the pressures of adolescence descend by Neil Baker 21st November 2022
Film and Television·Music and Dance·Short Films Stenofonen (Short Film) review – a painful and bittersweet memory unfolds through music by Neil Baker 1st March 2022
Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Flee (review) – a stunning, emotional and urgent conversation on human rights by Neil Baker 12th February 2022
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films Upon Her Lips: Heartbeats (NQV Media) review – life can be complicated, and our relationships with others even more so by Neil Baker 4th July 2021
1 The Last Bath (review) – a contemplative exploration of devotion, temptation, guilt and doubt that gently grips the audience
2 Ah Girl (TIFF) review: Ang Geck Geck Priscilla shows remarkable skills with child performers in her intimate and bittersweet drama
3 Just an Illusion (review) – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age film is a pure delight
4 CATS (review) – The open-air theatre in Regent’s Park becomes the cats’ secret world in this masterful new production
5 The Edinburgh Fringe Award-winning, wickedly funny and unflinching Goblin takes to the stage at the Park Theatre this November
6 Tom Daley adds the final stitch to the giant ‘Baa-Ewe’ Tapestry celebrating Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
7 The Oresteia (review): What Stone brings from Greek tragedy into the present is not the myth but the people
8 Saturday Night Live UK announces Jeff Goldblum as the first host of the new series and the addition of Freddie Meredith to the cast
9 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
10 Her Worm (review) – a deliciously dark, lovingly crafted short film that asks us all to reflect on the real parasites in our midst
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