Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Die My Love (BFI London Film Festival) review – Jennifer Lawrence is relentless in her most visceral performance to date by Theo Smith 21st October 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Blue Moon (BFI London Film Festival) review – weighed down by the overwhelmingness of its style and the staleness of its substance by Calum Cooper 19th October 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Frankenstein (BFI London Film Festival) review – Del Toro’s adaptation beats with a human heart that only he could create by Oscar Aitchison 16th October 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television The Mastermind (BFI London Film Festival) review – Reichardt’s movie is as tragically farcical as it is deceptively thrilling by Calum Cooper 16th October 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ She’s the He (BFI London Film Festival) review – McCarthy delivers a colourful, vibrant, proudly trans coming of age comedy by Neil Baker 15th October 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television After the Hunt (BFI London Film Festival) review – Guadagnino’s picture feels uncharacteristically uncertain of itself by Calum Cooper 13th October 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Hamnet (BFI London Film Festival) review – a tender, heart-aching ode to family and how loss forms the basis of great art and humanity by Calum Cooper 13th October 2025
Film and Television·Rewind One Potato, Two Potato (1964) – one of the most honest, urgent, and bold independent films of the early 1960s by Neil Baker 7th October 2025
Film and Television The Smashing Machine (review) – a step up for Johnson and a step back for Safdie by Calum Cooper 4th October 2025
Film and Television Eugene hangs out with Prince William in The Reluctant Traveller season three, episode four on Apple TV+ by Oscar Aitchison 2nd October 2025
2 Leviticus: The true horror of religious fundamentalism, conversion practices and community oppression
3 Berlinale Generation at 50: The Crystal Bears are to take centre stage at the Berlinale Palast in 2027
4 Bad Karaoke (FrightFest) review – Lightbody and Steinmiller Jr.’s fabulously fun popcorn horror hits all the right notes
5 Vleesdag (Meat Kills) FrightFest review – Smits’ slaughterhouse horror refuses to play by the established rules
6 Ithaqua (FrightFest) review – a rush to action shatters much of the tension and horror of the opening act in Walker’s movie
7 The Brook (FrightFest) review: Paul Stainthorpe’s first blood feature is an ambitious, smart, atmospheric, and engaging small-town mystery
8 TV Choice: Mia-Kate Russell’s sapphic revenge slasher, Penny Lane is Dead, streaming on Shudder, delivers one hell of a sucker punch
9 Great films live forever with Studiocanal Classics, from restored theatrical re-releases to unmissable home entertainment favourites
10 Colony (FrightFest) review – a taut atmosphere and a palpable urgency make for a gripping, if rather generic, zombie horror
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