Film and Television The Mortuary Assistant (review) – Jeremiah Kipp’s horror game adaptation juggles supernatural terror and psychological torment by Daisy Grace Greetham 27th July 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Mother Mary (review) – a woman trying to reconcile who she is with the version of herself that everyone else seems to recognise by Yasmine Chan 23rd June 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television Hokum (review) – an atmospheric meditation on the destabilising nature of guilt and greed by Calum Cooper 2nd May 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television TV Choice: Why not book an escape to this quaint island of Widow’s Bay off the coast of New England? I dare you! by Neil Baker 1st May 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television TV Choice: Daisy May and Charlie Cooper investigate things that go bump in the night in NightWatch by Neil Baker 25th October 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Rewind ParaNorman returns to theatres this October with a remastered release and a brand new short film by Neil Baker 15th September 2025
Film and Television The Conjuring: Last Rites (review) – a competent but ultimately disappointing final case for the Warrens by Calum Cooper 3rd September 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television The Haunting at Jack the Ripper’s House (FrightFest) review – a mildly entertaining but sadly confused haunted house flick by Neil Baker 24th August 2025
Film and Television We take a first look at the delightfully dark and kooky mayhem of Wednesday (season two) on Netflix by Neil Baker 3rd August 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ The Dead Boy Detectives (Netflix) review – a delightfully dark mix of deadly dandelion sprites and dodgy demons by Neil Baker 1st May 2024
1 Just an Illusion (review) – Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age film is a pure delight
2 CATS (review) – The open-air theatre in Regent’s Park becomes the cats’ secret world in this masterful new production
3 The Edinburgh Fringe Award-winning, wickedly funny and unflinching Goblin takes to the stage at the Park Theatre this November
4 Tom Daley adds the final stitch to the giant ‘Baa-Ewe’ Tapestry celebrating Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
5 The Oresteia (review): What Stone brings from Greek tragedy into the present is not the myth but the people
6 Saturday Night Live UK announces Jeff Goldblum as the first host of the new series and the addition of Freddie Meredith to the cast
7 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
8 Her Worm (review) – a deliciously dark, lovingly crafted short film that asks us all to reflect on the real parasites in our midst
9 Blue Film: Elliot Tuttle on his provocative, nuanced, artistically ambitious exploration of trauma, memory, identity and guilt
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