Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance Rock Out (Sheffield DocFest) review – a mighty mixtape of queer musical history that is both mindful and momentous by Neil Baker 25th June 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Comme le feu (Who by Fire) Berlinale Review – teenage dreams evaporate under the weight and pressure of a toxic adult world by Neil Baker 27th February 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Television The Holdovers (review) – a cinematic treasure that deserves to be savoured like a fine wine by Neil Baker 31st December 2023
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ All of Us Strangers (BFI London Film Festival) review – Haigh unlocks painful memories as he bathes us in the eternal power of love by Neil Baker 21st October 2023
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Saltburn (review) – BFI London Film Festival – a wickedly sharp, proudly queer and gloriously decadent film by Neil Baker 12th October 2023
Editors' Choice·Film and Television Past Lives (review) – Celine Song’s stunning debut holds you tight and doesn’t let go by Calum Cooper 11th September 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 Television Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 (review) – a funny, immersive and genuinely heartfelt finale by Calum Cooper 2nd May 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
1 The Nature of Forgetting (review): Movement, images and live music explore human life and relationships in Theatre Re’s striking production
2 Counterattack: Youth (review): A real pub setting elevates the intimacy between four lifelong friends in Gain Amy Park’s drama
3 Black Church Bay (BFI London Film Festival) review: Jones film is muddy, grey and open-ended as its knotty, unnerving tale unfolds
4 Josephine (BFI London Film Festival) review: De Anaújo and team cut to the bone of dense issues with devastating precision
5 Coward (BFI London Film Festival) review: Achingly beautiful and deeply intimate, this is Lukas Dhont’s best film to date
6 Whalefall (review): Austin Abrams is swallowed whole by a sperm whale in a bizarre rather than exciting survival movie
7 TV Choice: Brad Caleb Kane breathes new life into the Friday the 13th franchise this Halloween as we return to Crystal Lake
8 Iván & Hadoum (BFI London Film Festival) review: Ian de la Rosa’s sun-drenched love story is tender, real and organic in construction
9 Nightborn (BFI London Film Festival) review: Hanna Bergholm’s movie revels in wince-inducing horror, leaving the audience squirming
10 These Violent Delights (review): Hampson and Sansom’s passionate take on Romeo and Juliet marks the arrival of a new generation
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