Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Anatomy of a Fall (review) – Justice is messy, and the truth is obscure in Triet’s outstanding crime drama by Neil Baker 6th December 2023
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Departing Seniors “Killer Graduation” (Frightfest) review – deliciously dark, distinctly different and defiantly queer by Neil Baker 30th August 2023
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television The Blue Rose (Frightfest) review – a story about masks we wear and the void between reality and dreams by Neil Baker 28th August 2023
Film and Television City on Fire (Apple TV+) review – there is a lot to love in this eight-part drama, even if it doesn’t burn evenly by Neil Baker 15th May 2023
Film and Television Shardlake (Disney+) – Arthur Hughes, Sean Bean and Anthony Boyle to star in the new Disney + Tudor murder mystery by Neil Baker 31st March 2023
Film and Television Lockwood & Co. (Netflix) review – alive with imagination, Joe Cornish’s show is a breath of fresh air by Neil Baker 25th January 2023
Film and Television Slow Horses (Apple TV+) season two review: it’s back with a bang, packed with exquisite drama, dark humour and tension by Neil Baker 2nd December 2022
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (BFI London Film Festival) review – enough twists and turns to satisfy fans of the classic whodunnit by Emma Duffy 11th November 2022
Film and Television Don’t Worry Darling (review) – Olivia Wilde’s movie is bold, brash and at times enthralling by Sabastian Astley 27th September 2022
Film and Television See How They Run (review) – a wickedly fun farce through London’s West End that plays as a romantic valentine to Hitchcock & Christie by Sabastian Astley 11th September 2022
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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