Film and Television Orwell: 2+2=5 (review) – Peck’s highlighting of the parallels between prose and reality is brutally effective by Calum Cooper 24th March 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television L’Étranger (The Stranger) review – Ozon’s masterful adaptation is an alluring and challenging exploration of the absurdity of justice by Neil Baker 18th March 2026
Theatre National Theatre announces Anupama Chandrasekhar’s new stage adaptation of The Jungle Book for the festive season by Neil Baker 17th March 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television TV Choice: Ella Bruccoleri, Ruth Jones and Richard E. Grant discuss The Other Bennet Sister on BBC One and BBC iPlayer by Neil Baker 12th March 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Franz (Kinoteka) review – Agnieszka Holland creates a kaleidoscopic portrait of Franz Kafka’s life and impact by Daisy Grace Greetham 4th March 2026
Film and Television Wuthering Heights (review) – Fennell captures the book’s emotional scale, but the lack of subtlety is a double-edged sword by Calum Cooper 10th February 2026
Editors' Choice·Theatre Joe Orton’s classic scandalous dark farce Loot is coming to the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch this February by Neil Baker 15th January 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Rewind In the House (2012) rewind review – a teenager builds a prison of words for a teacher who believes he is the boy’s intellectual superior by Neil Baker 11th January 2026
Arts·Music and Dance Souvenir at Fitzrovia Chapel curated by award-winning artists and BAFTA-nominated filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard by Neil Baker 5th January 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ 100 Nights of Hero (review) – Jackman’s film celebrates the power of storytelling, female empowerment and the beauty of queer love by Neil Baker 25th November 2025
1 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
2 Her Worm (review) – a deliciously dark, lovingly crafted short film that asks us all to reflect on the real parasites in our midst
3 Blue Film: Elliot Tuttle on his provocative, nuanced, artistically ambitious exploration of trauma, memory, identity and guilt
5 Leviticus: The true horror of religious fundamentalism, conversion practices and community oppression
6 Berlinale Generation at 50: The Crystal Bears are to take centre stage at the Berlinale Palast in 2027
7 Bad Karaoke (FrightFest) review – Lightbody and Steinmiller Jr.’s fabulously fun popcorn horror hits all the right notes
8 Vleesdag (Meat Kills) FrightFest review – Smits’ slaughterhouse horror refuses to play by the established rules
9 Ithaqua (FrightFest) review – a rush to action shatters much of the tension and horror of the opening act in Walker’s movie
10 The Brook (FrightFest) review: Paul Stainthorpe’s first blood feature is an ambitious, smart, atmospheric, and engaging small-town mystery
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