Arts·Film and Arts Festivals·Music and Dance·Theatre User Manual for a Broken Machine (review): Words, movement and music combine to explore personal and social histories by Jane Jung 21st October 2026
Film and Arts Festivals·Theatre Counterattack: Youth (review): A real pub setting elevates the intimacy between four lifelong friends in Gain Amy Park’s drama by Jane Jung 17th October 2026
Music and Dance·Theatre Franz & Marie (review): Howard and Oakley’s poignant tragedy comes to life through folk music and performance by Jane Jung 12th October 2026
Music and Dance·Theatre You & It (review) – What if technology could bring back the person you loved the most? by Jane Jung 4th September 2026
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Colony (FrightFest) review – a taut atmosphere and a palpable urgency make for a gripping, if rather generic, zombie horror by Calum Cooper 28th August 2026
Arts·Editors' Choice Unanchored City (Copeland Gallery, Peckham) review – DoMo Collective asks: What makes a city feel like our own? by Jane Jung 17th August 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Rewind FrightFest announces its programme for the 27th edition of the UK’s leading horror & fantasy film festival by Neil Baker 16th July 2026
LGBTQ+·Theatre King’s Head Theatre places technology, politics, and sexuality in the spotlight for its Autumn season 2026 by Neil Baker 24th June 2026
Editors' Choice·Theatre The Last Man (review) – a social and emotional landscape that may be unfamiliar, yet unexpectedly recognisable by Jane Jung 10th June 2026
Music and Dance·Theatre A Festival of Korean Dance 2026 will tour five venues across the United Kingdom in its ninth year, from The Place to Lowry and Tramway by Neil Baker 10th April 2026
1 TV Choice: Enjoy a bubbling cauldron full of scary films, TV terrors, and spooky sounds on BBC iPlayer and Sounds this Halloween
2 User Manual for a Broken Machine (review): Words, movement and music combine to explore personal and social histories
3 Minotaur (BFI London Film Festival) review: Zvyagintsev’s film is a grim, gripping and haunting cinematic experience
4 Julie Hesmondhalgh will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the inaugural Great British Theatres Awards this November
5 Studiocanal Classics has announced the 20th Anniversary 4K Re-release of Guillermo Del Toro’s masterpiece Pan’s Labyrinth
6 7 Miles Out (BFI London Film Festival) review: Carol Morley’s coming-of-age film enthrals, delights and brings a tear to the eye
7 Elephants in the Fog (BFI London Film Festival) review: Abinash Bikram Shah’s debut feature is a masterclass in atmospheric immersion
8 The Nature of Forgetting (review): Movement, images and live music explore human life and relationships in Theatre Re’s striking production
9 Counterattack: Youth (review): A real pub setting elevates the intimacy between four lifelong friends in Gain Amy Park’s drama
10 Black Church Bay (BFI London Film Festival) review: Jones film is muddy, grey and open-ended as its knotty, unnerving tale unfolds
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