Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Short Films Shrimp Fried Rice (review) – sizzling, satisfying and scrumptious, Dylan Pun’s salty-sweet short film is now streaming on YouTube by Neil Baker 20th September 2026
Arts·Music and Dance·Theatre Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death by Jane Jung 6th September 2026
Arts·Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Music and Dance·Theatre The beauty of promise over perfection: discovering emerging artists and creative talent at Riverside Studios Bitesize Festival 50 by Jane Jung 5th August 2026
Film and Arts Festivals·Theatre INK Festival announces the full programme of shows for its 10th anniversary festival by Neil Baker 17th March 2026
Arts·Editors' Choice·Film and Television TV Choice: Jim Henson: Idea Man (Disney+) – a beautiful love letter to a man who changed puppetry, TV, film, and visual effects forever by Neil Baker 6th June 2024
1 Studiocanal Classics has announced the 20th Anniversary 4K Re-release of Guillermo Del Toro’s masterpiece Pan’s Labyrinth
2 7 Miles Out (BFI London Film Festival) review: Carol Morley’s coming-of-age film enthrals, delights and brings a tear to the eye
3 Elephants in the Fog (BFI London Film Festival) review: Abinash Bikram Shah’s debut feature is a masterclass in atmospheric immersion
4 The Nature of Forgetting (review): Movement, images and live music explore human life and relationships in Theatre Re’s striking production
5 Counterattack: Youth (review): A real pub setting elevates the intimacy between four lifelong friends in Gain Amy Park’s drama
6 Black Church Bay (BFI London Film Festival) review: Jones film is muddy, grey and open-ended as its knotty, unnerving tale unfolds
7 Josephine (BFI London Film Festival) review: De Anaújo and team cut to the bone of dense issues with devastating precision
8 Coward (BFI London Film Festival) review: Achingly beautiful and deeply intimate, this is Lukas Dhont’s best film to date
9 Whalefall (review): Austin Abrams is swallowed whole by a sperm whale in a bizarre rather than exciting survival movie
10 TV Choice: Brad Caleb Kane breathes new life into the Friday the 13th franchise this Halloween as we return to Crystal Lake
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