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
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ All of Us Strangers (BFI London Film Festival) review – Haigh unlocks our memories and 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
Film and Television·Rewind Risky Business (1983) rewind review – ’80s teenage dreams, reward, risk and consequence in the Chicago suburbs by Neil Baker 1st September 2022
2 Leviticus: The true horror of religious fundamentalism, conversion practices and community oppression
3 Berlinale Generation at 50: The Crystal Bears are to take centre stage at the Berlinale Palast in 2027
4 Bad Karaoke (FrightFest) review – Lightbody and Steinmiller Jr.’s fabulously fun popcorn horror hits all the right notes
5 Vleesdag (Meat Kills) FrightFest review – Smits’ slaughterhouse horror refuses to play by the established rules
6 Ithaqua (FrightFest) review – a rush to action shatters much of the tension and horror of the opening act in Walker’s movie
7 The Brook (FrightFest) review: Paul Stainthorpe’s first blood feature is an ambitious, smart, atmospheric, and engaging small-town mystery
8 TV Choice: Mia-Kate Russell’s sapphic revenge slasher, Penny Lane is Dead, streaming on Shudder, delivers one hell of a sucker punch
9 Great films live forever with Studiocanal Classics, from restored theatrical re-releases to unmissable home entertainment favourites
10 Colony (FrightFest) review – a taut atmosphere and a palpable urgency make for a gripping, if rather generic, zombie horror
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