Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Sunflower (OFN Review) – Carrubba captures the raw intensity of teenage life in a film born from memory by Neil Baker 9th November 2024
Editors' Choice·Theatre What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (review) – a brave, bold and urgent exploration of religion, nationhood and identity by Neil Baker 16th October 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Television TV Choice: It’s back to school as we talk to Jason Manford about the return of Waterloo Road by Neil Baker 8th September 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Charlotte (FrightFest Review) – What horrors lurk behind the picturesque doors of a small English village? by Neil Baker 26th August 2024
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Short Films Dirty Bad Wrong (short film) Fantasia Review – how far would you go for those you love? by Neil Baker 31st July 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Sebastian (review) – Mikko Mäkelä’s fearless exploration of sex and artistic immersion is bold, enthralling and enticing by Neil Baker 5th July 2024
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Short Films Church Camp (short film) Dances with Films review – to come out, or not to come out, that is the question by Neil Baker 26th June 2024
Editors' Choice·LGBTQ+·Theatre Moffie (review) – a bold and powerful reminder of the toxicity of hate and the trauma it breeds by Neil Baker 9th June 2024
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Short Films Dirty Towel (short film) Tribeca Review – a short, salient and sensitive exploration of sexual shame by Neil Baker 8th June 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ TV Choice: Lost Boys and Fairies (BBC One): Daf James brings us a sublime, deeply emotional journey of love, loss and found family by Neil Baker 6th June 2024
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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