Arts·Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance·Rewind Rip It Up: A UK-wide season of film, TV and events celebrating 75 years of youth culture presented by BFI Film Audience Network by Neil Baker 1st May 2026
Arts·Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Music and Dance Broken English (BFI London Film Festival) review – Forsyth and Pollard honour Faithfull’s rebellious spirit and unbridled talent by Neil Baker 23rd October 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Rose of Nevada (BFI London Film Festival) review – Jenkin’s ominous and puzzling, yet deeply resonant picture is an engrossing watch by Calum Cooper 16th October 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Rewind Revenge, rebellion and oppression in The Nightingale and True History of the Kelly Gang by Neil Baker 8th February 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Femme (review) – fear, arousal, anger, and excitement merge on the uncertain and unplanned road to revenge by Neil Baker 30th November 2023
Film and Television A Guide to Second Date Sex (review) – Hiron delves into the complexity, anxiety, messiness, and hormonal world of ‘the date’ by Neil Baker 21st April 2020
Film and Television True History of the Kelly Gang (review) – the hormonal energy of rebellion in a brutal new world by Neil Baker 22nd February 2020
Film and Television 1917 (review) – engulfs the audience in a breathless journey of fear, bravery and eroding innocence by Neil Baker 12th January 2020
1 Just an Illusion (review) – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age film is a pure delight
2 CATS (review) – The open-air theatre in Regent’s Park becomes the cats’ secret world in this masterful new production
3 The Edinburgh Fringe Award-winning, wickedly funny and unflinching Goblin takes to the stage at the Park Theatre this November
4 Tom Daley adds the final stitch to the giant ‘Baa-Ewe’ Tapestry celebrating Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
5 The Oresteia (review): What Stone brings from Greek tragedy into the present is not the myth but the people
6 Saturday Night Live UK announces Jeff Goldblum as the first host of the new series and the addition of Freddie Meredith to the cast
7 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
8 Her Worm (review) – a deliciously dark, lovingly crafted short film that asks us all to reflect on the real parasites in our midst
9 Blue Film: Elliot Tuttle on his provocative, nuanced, artistically ambitious exploration of trauma, memory, identity and guilt
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