Editors' Choice·Film and Television Train Dreams (Netflix) review – a journey full of spellbinding imagery and engrossingly empathetic direction by Calum Cooper 30th November 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films The Male Gaze: Heavenly Creatures (NQV Media) review – four fantastic short films exploring desire, sexuality, and religion by Neil Baker 24th November 2025
Arts The Twelfth Night of Christmas at Chiswick House promises to be an opulent and unmissable festive experience by Neil Baker 20th November 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Blue Moon (BFI London Film Festival) review – weighed down by the overwhelmingness of its style and the staleness of its substance by Calum Cooper 19th October 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Hamnet (BFI London Film Festival) review – a tender, heart-aching ode to family and how loss forms the basis of great art and humanity by Calum Cooper 13th October 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television The Tree of Knowledge (A Árvore do Conhecimento) Fantastic Fest review – a mesmerising and playful fantasia on a theme by Neil Baker 20th September 2025
Film and Television TV Choice: Jack Thorne’s The Hack, starring David Tennant, Toby Jones and Robert Carlyle, airs on ITV1 this September by Neil Baker 18th September 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television TV Choice: King & Conqueror (BBC One): James Norton on the struggle for power across two countries and a raging sea by Neil Baker 20th August 2025
Theatre The Daughter of Time (review) – Reedy and Eastop ask for audience investment in historical debates that never truly spark on stage by Neil Baker 26th July 2025
LGBTQ+·Theatre The full cast has been announced for a brand new production of Hugh Whitemore’s acclaimed play Breaking the Code at the Royal & Derngate by Neil Baker 22nd July 2025
1 The Nature of Forgetting (review): Movement, images and live music explore human life and relationships in Theatre Re’s striking production
2 Counterattack: Youth (review): A real pub setting elevates the intimacy between four lifelong friends in Gain Amy Park’s drama
3 Black Church Bay (BFI London Film Festival) review: Jones film is muddy, grey and open-ended as its knotty, unnerving tale unfolds
4 Josephine (BFI London Film Festival) review: De Anaújo and team cut to the bone of dense issues with devastating precision
5 Coward (BFI London Film Festival) review: Achingly beautiful and deeply intimate, this is Lukas Dhont’s best film to date
6 Whalefall (review): Austin Abrams is swallowed whole by a sperm whale in a bizarre rather than exciting survival movie
7 TV Choice: Brad Caleb Kane breathes new life into the Friday the 13th franchise this Halloween as we return to Crystal Lake
8 Iván & Hadoum (BFI London Film Festival) review: Ian de la Rosa’s sun-drenched love story is tender, real and organic in construction
9 Nightborn (BFI London Film Festival) review: Hanna Bergholm’s movie revels in wince-inducing horror, leaving the audience squirming
10 These Violent Delights (review): Hampson and Sansom’s passionate take on Romeo and Juliet marks the arrival of a new generation
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