Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film Reviews The Long Walk (review) – a bloody, visceral, intense and compelling dystopian thriller by Calum Cooper 4th September 2025
Film and Television·Film Reviews 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 TV News·LGBTQ+·North America The 2nd Edition of the 29 Queer Film Festival in Twentynine Palms, California, announces an extensive lineup of films and events by Neil Baker 27th August 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film Reviews·UK Festivals Your Host (FrightFest) review – not even the twisted performance of Haley can save Medoff’s film from its own self-inflicted wounds by Neil Baker 23rd August 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film Reviews·UK Festivals Kombucha (FrightFest) review – a wickedly sharp and delightfully moreish tipple by Neil Baker 23rd August 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film Reviews The Life of Chuck (review) – Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards by Calum Cooper 21st August 2025
Film and Television·TV and Streaming·What to Watch What to Watch (BBC One) King & Conqueror – James Norton on the struggle for power across two countries and a raging sea by Neil Baker 20th August 2025
Film and Television·Film Reviews Eddington (review) – a suitably off-kilter new entry into the canon of Ari Aster pictures by Calum Cooper 20th August 2025
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Film and TV News·UK Festivals Hikari’s Rental Family has been announced as the American Express Gala at the 69th BFI London Film Festival by Neil Baker 14th August 2025
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Film Reviews Weapons (review) – a genuinely unique, fresh, and twisted contemporary fairytale by Neil Baker 6th August 2025
1 Your Guide to The Eurovision Song Contest 2026, taking place in Vienna, and broadcasting live across BBC TV and Radio 5th May 2026
2 Richard Gadd and Jamie Bell discuss Half Man, repression, violence, the complexity of masculinity, and the fragility of brotherhood 5th May 2026
3 The Good Boy (Stream It or Skip It) – unnerving and complex in its social themes, Komasa’s chamber piece is a twisted puzzle-box movie 4th May 2026
4 Say hello to a new cast of well-known faithfuls and traitors for the upcoming The Celebrity Traitors on BBC One and iPlayer 2nd May 2026
5 Hokum (review) – an atmospheric meditation on the destabilising nature of guilt and greed 2nd May 2026
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