Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Tight Lettuce (Fantasia Film Festival) review – when does care become enabling, and who dictates when that line has been crossed? by Neil Baker 19th July 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance Wolf (Sheffield DocFest) review – a deeply personal and intimate exploration of trauma, addiction, recovery and transformation by Neil Baker 16th June 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Rewind Leaving Las Vegas (1995) rewind review – a haunting epitaph and a powerful exploration of unconditional love, beauty and pain by Neil Baker 18th May 2026
Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Cutaways (review) – a sharp and observant exploration of the ruthless amphitheatre that is the entertainment industry by Neil Baker 7th April 2026
Editors' Choice·Music and Dance·Theatre Miles (review) – like the best Jazz, Kaderbhai’s play is a theatrical and musical melting pot of pure brilliance by Neil Baker 10th February 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television Caught Stealing (review) – wild, gritty and witty, this is one of the best action-thrillers of the year by Neil Baker 2nd December 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Departures (BFI Flare Review) – Neil Ely and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan’s brilliant comedy drama isn’t afraid to dig deep into the gay male experience by Neil Baker 27th March 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television The Substance (2024) – Calum Cooper on Coralie Fargeat’s squirm-inducing masterpiece by Calum Cooper 4th February 2025
Editors' Choice·Theatre Jack Lowden and Martin Freeman to star in the West End transfer of David Ireland’s The Fifth Step at sohoplace by Neil Baker 24th January 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Music and Dance Better Man (review) – Gracey’s fabulous musical biopic isn’t monkeying around by Neil Baker 20th December 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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