Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films The Last First Time (review) – an uncompromising and intoxicating portrait of first sex, infatuation, queer joy and escape by Neil Baker 17th July 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ On the Road (SXSW London) review – Pablos’ unfiltered, charged, and brutally authentic movie is a visceral cinematic experience by Neil Baker 12th June 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Rewind Hormonal Highs – six hot and heavy films that take us from a dance floor in New York to an isolated Blue Lagoon by Neil Baker 8th June 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Sad Girlz (Tribeca Festival) review – Tovar’s Double Berlinale Winner is a stunning reflection of girlhood and trauma by Daisy Grace Greetham 6th June 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
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films The Male Gaze: Reality Bites (NQV Media) review – six short films exploring the moments of revelation and change by Neil Baker 30th March 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films The Male Gaze: Bitter Sweet (NQV Media) review – a hauntingly beautiful tapestry of bittersweet beginnings and endings by Neil Baker 16th November 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Parvulos (Fantasia Review) – Ezban’s bold and visually arresting horror is designed to make you squirm by Neil Baker 29th July 2024
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films The Male Gaze: Boy Trouble (NQV Media) review – four short films that explore the ground-shaking power of a single encounter by Neil Baker 9th April 2024
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films Upon Her Lips: Day Dreaming (NQV Media) review – four short films exploring female love and romance by Neil Baker 3rd November 2023
1 Blue Film: Elliot Tuttle on his provocative, nuanced, artistically ambitious exploration of trauma, memory, identity and guilt
3 Leviticus: The true horror of religious fundamentalism, conversion practices and community oppression
4 Berlinale Generation at 50: The Crystal Bears are to take centre stage at the Berlinale Palast in 2027
5 Bad Karaoke (FrightFest) review – Lightbody and Steinmiller Jr.’s fabulously fun popcorn horror hits all the right notes
6 Vleesdag (Meat Kills) FrightFest review – Smits’ slaughterhouse horror refuses to play by the established rules
7 Ithaqua (FrightFest) review – a rush to action shatters much of the tension and horror of the opening act in Walker’s movie
8 The Brook (FrightFest) review: Paul Stainthorpe’s first blood feature is an ambitious, smart, atmospheric, and engaging small-town mystery
9 TV Choice: Mia-Kate Russell’s sapphic revenge slasher, Penny Lane is Dead, streaming on Shudder, delivers one hell of a sucker punch
10 Great films live forever with Studiocanal Classics, from restored theatrical re-releases to unmissable home entertainment favourites
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