Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Music and Dance TV Choice: Beatles ’64 (Disney+) – A beautiful love letter to four boys from Liverpool who changed the musical and cultural world by Neil Baker 29th November 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television The Count of Monte Cristo (review) – modern French cinema at its most spectacular, adventurous, and bold by Neil Baker 27th November 2024
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Joy (BFI LFF Review) – the passion, fear and courage of a ten-year journey to make the impossible possible by Neil Baker 3rd November 2024
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance Midas Man (review) – a worthy, if incomplete and rather too smooth biopic by Neil Baker 30th October 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television The Apprentice (BFI LFF Review) – a Frankensteinian story of greed, narcissism and unchecked power by Calum Cooper 19th October 2024
LGBTQ+·Theatre Step into the glamour and tragedy of the roaring twenties with a modern twist on The Great Gatsby by Neil Baker 10th October 2024
Film and Television Paramount Pictures and the Film and TV Charity announce the Royal Film Performance of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II by Neil Baker 9th October 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Television TV Choice: Showtrial, Alma’s Not Normal, Surviving October 7th, One Day in Gaza on BBC iPlayer by Neil Baker 6th October 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Television Brian and Margaret – First Look at Steve Coogan as Brian Walden and Harriet Walter as Margaret Thatcher by Neil Baker 5th October 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Television Firebrand (review) – Vikander and Law sizzle in Aïnouz’s narratively flawed Tudor drama by Neil Baker 4th September 2024
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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