Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Vleesdag (Meat Kills) FrightFest review – Smits’ slaughterhouse horror refuses to play by the established rules by Neil Baker 31st August 2026
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Attack on Paradise (Fantasia Film Festival) review – a high-octane crime action thriller that never quite reaches its full potential by Neil Baker 20th July 2026
Arts·Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance·Theatre Edinburgh Fringe 2026 Guide (Volume Two) by Neil Baker 3rd July 2026
Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Jimpa (review) – Sophie Hyde’s movie never finds its dramatic, historical or contemporary queer voice by Neil Baker 12th May 2026
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Truly Naked (Berlinale) review – d’Ansembourg’s film is daring and explicit, yet always sensitive in its complex discourse by Neil Baker 19th February 2026
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films The Male Gaze: Secrets and Lies (NQV Media) review – six sizzling short films exploring secrets, lies, love and friendship by Neil Baker 8th September 2025
Film and Television·NQV Short Films·Short Films Boys Feels: Stand By Me (NQV Media) review – the need for a companion, friend or brother when the pressures of adolescence descend by Neil Baker 21st November 2022
Film and Television·Rewind The Vanishing (1988) rewind review – Sluizer’s story slowly builds its visceral terror in one of the greatest thrillers ever made by Agnes Sajti 22nd October 2021
Film and Television·NQV Short Films·Short Films Boys Feels: I love trouble (NQV Media) review – five short films exploring the turbulence of adolescence by Neil Baker 14th August 2021
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films The Dutch Boys (NQV Media) review – a rich and complex tapestry of short stories by Neil Baker 12th May 2021
1 Saturday Night Live UK announces Jeff Goldblum as the first host of the new series and the addition of Freddie Meredith to the cast
2 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
3 Her Worm (review) – a deliciously dark, lovingly crafted short film that asks us all to reflect on the real parasites in our midst
4 Blue Film: Elliot Tuttle on his provocative, nuanced, artistically ambitious exploration of trauma, memory, identity and guilt
6 Leviticus: The true horror of religious fundamentalism, conversion practices and community oppression
7 Berlinale Generation at 50: The Crystal Bears are to take centre stage at the Berlinale Palast in 2027
8 Bad Karaoke (FrightFest) review – Lightbody and Steinmiller Jr.’s fabulously fun popcorn horror hits all the right notes
9 Vleesdag (Meat Kills) FrightFest review – Smits’ slaughterhouse horror refuses to play by the established rules
10 Ithaqua (FrightFest) review – a rush to action shatters much of the tension and horror of the opening act in Walker’s movie
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