Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Rewind FrightFest announces its programme for the 27th edition of the UK’s leading horror & fantasy film festival by Neil Baker 16th July 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Hope is a Word (Sheffield DocFest) review – a collective fight for change, rich with poetry, power, and personal stories by Daisy Grace Greetham 20th June 2026
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Rosebush Pruning (Berlinale) review – Aïnouz delights in exploring the writhing bed of maggots behind a facade of wealth and beauty by Neil Baker 19th February 2026
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films The Male Gaze: Wild Youth (NQV Media) review – five short films exploring place, passion and personal courage by Neil Baker 26th January 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ The Holy Boy (BFI London Film Festival) review – a fierce, formidable, and heartbreaking coming-of-age horror by Neil Baker 11th October 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Accidental Friends (Amici per caso) OUTshine review – Nardari’s movie may be colourful and warm, but it is also lazy and confused by Neil Baker 27th April 2025
Film and Television Bertha Doc House presents the second Italian Doc Season this January by Neil Baker 16th January 2024
Film and Television·LGBTQ+ L’immensità (rent or buy) review – a tender, bold and fantastical portrait of transformation within a family facing crisis by Neil Baker 10th August 2023
Film and Arts Festivals Venice Film Festival returns to London for a second edition of Venice to London by Neil Baker 4th January 2023
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films The Dependent Variables (BFI London Film Festival) review – the joy, uncertainty, and longing of a gentle and tentative sexual awakening by Neil Baker 5th October 2022
1 A new exhibition exploring the design and production of LAIKA’s new stop-motion film Wildwood opens at the Design Museum this October
2 TV Choice: From 7 Up to 70 Up, Calum Cooper looks back at the TV experiment that became one of the greatest documentary series ever made
3 Studiocanal has announced the release of a new 4K restoration of Richard Attenborough’s Chaplin (1992), starring Robert Downey Jr
4 TV Choice: The cloaks have been ironed, the fingerless gloves unpacked, and the turret dusted for The Celebrity Traitors on BBC One
5 The National Children’s Choir of Great Britain (NCCGB) is now searching for the next generation of singing talent
6 The Intimacy Coordinator (review): Louisa Connolly-Burnham’s short film is bold in its perspective and bursting with potential
7 The finalists have been announced for the inaugural Great British Theatres Awards, taking place in London this November
8 Queer Theatre is auctioning a Star Trek: Picard script belonging to Marina Sirtis, with all proceeds supporting LGBTQIA+ theatre-makers
9 A Tale of Two Cities (review): After 90 years, Terence Rattigan and John Gielgud’s adaptation finally comes to life on stage
10 TV Choice: Break Clause – Moving on is hard, moving out is even harder in Jess Bray’s new Channel 4 comedy/drama
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