Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ TV Choice: Ted Lasso (Season Three) Apple TV+ – Episode Guide by Theo Smith 15th March 2023
Editors' Choice·Film and Television Women Talking (review): Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Toews’ novel is arresting and utterly essential viewing by Emma Duffy 2nd January 2023
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films North Star (short film) review – a passionate, beautiful and delicate discussion on love, loss and family by Neil Baker 12th September 2022
Film and Television Big Boys Don’t Cry – a powerful exploration of historical institutional abuse by Neil Baker 5th September 2022
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·NQV Short Films·Short Films The Aussie Boys (NQV Media) review – seven road-trip shorts exploring departures, arrivals and revelations by Neil Baker 3rd September 2022
Film and Television Five Days at Memorial (Apple TV+) review – a tough, gritty, and urgent drama that offers no tidy conclusions by Neil Baker 15th August 2022
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Short Films Champ (Short Film) review – a powerful exploration of parental influence, separation and a toxic and twisted love by Neil Baker 1st July 2022
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Rewind The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) rewind review – a rip-roaring adventure that never shies away from the darkness of Twain’s work by Neil Baker 30th June 2022
Film and Television Mainstream (review) – a complex satire that hits the mark several times in its dissection of our social media-driven world by Neil Baker 18th June 2022
Editors' Choice·Film and Television Everything Went Fine (review) – Ozon delivers a beautiful exploration of death, love, and individual choice by Neil Baker 16th June 2022
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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