Film and Television·LGBTQ+ The Blue Caftan (review) – Touzani’s film is as smooth as silk and as sharp as the needle that penetrates and shapes it by Neil Baker 4th May 2023
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Rewind Weird Science (1985) rewind review – Hughes’s movie understands the teenage male mind better than it is given credit for by Neil Baker 4th May 2023
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films Cinéorama BFI Flare 2023: Quick Read Reviews by Neil Baker 26th March 2023
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films The Perpetrators (short film) BFI Flare review – an urgent and atmospheric inquiry into the state-sanctioned oppression of gay men. by Neil Baker 25th March 2023
Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Lonesome (review) – Craig Boreham’s ode to the wanderer is rich in texture, imagery, heat and sexual energy by Neil Baker 6th March 2023
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films The Male Gaze: Shadows on Skin (NQV Media) review – four sizzling films exploring male sex and desire by Neil Baker 1st March 2023
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Rewind River Phoenix: The boy, the man and the movies by Neil Baker 21st February 2023
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Rewind Love Sucks! and these fifteen movies prove it! by Neil Baker 5th February 2023
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Rewind·Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) – Kazan’s masterpiece crawls under the skin and leaves an indelible mark by Neil Baker 3rd February 2023
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Bones and All (BFI London Film Festival) review – a cinematic banquet of bone-chilling horror, love and loss by Neil Baker 24th October 2022
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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