Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films You’re Out – short film (FrightFest 2023) review – a sharp and cheeky exploration of personal transformation and fear by Neil Baker 25th August 2023
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ TV Choice: Single, Out (season one) – Lee Galea and Will Hutchins on coming out, first relationships and messy adolescent feelings by Neil Baker 19th August 2023
Film and Television·LGBTQ+ L’immensità (rent or buy) review – a tender, bold and fantastical portrait of transformation within a family facing crisis by Neil Baker 10th August 2023
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Short Films Transylvanie (Fantasia Film Festival) short film review – Huart’s tale of isolation, and a need to find belonging, is striking in its power by Neil Baker 4th August 2023
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Scrapper (Sundance) review – Charlotte Regan’s debut feature is full of heart, humour and love by Neil Baker 9th July 2023
Film and Television·Rewind Free Willy (1993) rewind review – a boy and a whale unite in their quest for escape, freedom, and love by Neil Baker 1st July 2023
Film and Television·LGBTQ+ The Blue Caftan (review) – Touzani’s film is as smooth as silk and as sharp as the needle that penetrates and shapes it by Neil Baker 4th May 2023
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Winter Boy (review) – Honoré’s profoundly personal story of teenage grief pulls no punches yet maintains glimmers of hope by Neil Baker 2nd May 2023
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films Cinéorama BFI Flare 2023: Quick Read Reviews by Neil Baker 26th March 2023
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films The Perpetrators (short film) BFI Flare review – an urgent and atmospheric inquiry into the state-sanctioned oppression of gay men. by Neil Baker 25th March 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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