The Wasp (or the Sheer Beauty of Accepting Yourself), screening at BFI London Film Festival, is a stunning, heartfelt, and powerful short film about what it means to be human in a world that far too often carries a sting in its tail. ★★★★ Why do we hate wasps? Yes, they sting, and of course, they upset summer picnics by hounding us, but do they really deserve so much hate?

Full of heart, humour, and love, Yellow Bucket is a delightful short film about the moment we ask ourselves whether we would want our younger sibling to be gay, if there were a choice. But it's also a film that challenges the notion that all parents would prefer if their child had identified as heterosexual. ★★★★ What leads to someone identifying as gay?

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Praise be to Strippoli, Riondino, and Feltri, along with the divine cinematography of Cristiano Di Nicola and the unnerving score of Federico Bisozzi and Davide Tomat, for firmly placing Italian horror back on the map with The Holy Boy (La Valle dei Sorrisi).      ★★★★ The pain and suffering we carry are just as significant as the pleasure and happiness in informing what it means to be human.

The award-winning reality series returns tonight, but this time, host Claudia Winkleman is inviting a group of celebrities to the beautiful castle in the Scottish Highlands to play this ultimate game of detection, backstabbing and trust, in the hope of winning up to £100,000 for their chosen charities. You know the score, hidden amongst the celebs are The Traitors, whose job is to secretly murder their fellow players, without getting caught.

Rude Health Festival runs from Friday, 3rd October to Friday, 5th December 2025 at Cambois Miners Welfare. Ticket and programme information is available on the festival website. Artist-led community charity The Tute presents its most ambitious season yet, with the return of Rude Health Festival, offering a wealth of world-class, anarchic, and daring performances that address the community’s needs. Running from October to December 2025, the festival platform’s themes of health, belonging, …

Restored by StudioCanal as part of its Vintage Classics collection, One Potato, Two Potato (1964) has never looked or sounded better. While independent American cinema can arguably be traced back to Chaplin, it was the late '50s and '60s that saw an explosion of cutting-edge films and stories emerge. One Potato, Two Potato is one of those cutting-edge films, yet it remains a rarely discussed pioneer.

With a truly stunning, funny, and profoundly emotional exploration of modern masculinity through dance, stunt work, and personal stories, the Edinburgh Fringe hit "Stuntman" at The Place, London, from Scottish company "Superfan", encourages us to face the question: What does it mean to be male? ★★★★ Let me start with a simple question for all the men out there. What factors, both social, educational, emotional, and familial, made you the man you are today?

The Smashing Machine (review) - a step up for Johnson and a step back for Safdie ★★. Now showing in cinemas nationwide.

Him (review) - slapdash and ludicrous, this movie is about as far from a touchdown as one can get ★. Him is showing in cinemas from Oct 3.

As a visual and auditory spectacle, Gesher's production of Salomé at the Theatre Royal Haymarket is stunning, but this, like the gaze of Salomé herself, comes at a price as the production's ability to convey the psychological motivations of the characters suffers. ★★★ Welcome to a world where leaders sit in their ivory towers on wealth earned through the misery of others, where religious beliefs are twisted to maintain power, and where desire and greed run rampant and political manipulation controls the masses.

Forty-four years after its release, 'Diva' continues to spark conversation and debate among critics and cinephiles, and StudioCanal's stunning 4K UHD restoration and re-release will hopefully see a whole new generation join that debate. The 1980s and early '90s saw the emergence of a new movement in French cinema, known as Cinéma du Look. This new movement would embrace spectacle, youth culture, and striking visuals and sound while equally reflecting the new economic realities and cultural changes in France under François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac.

For a wickedly entertaining, proudly chaotic, and beautifully performed homage to Fawlty Towers in its 50th anniversary year, Faulty Towers - The Dining Experience at the President's Hotel in Bloomsbury is an absolute blast. ★★★★ Subject: A concerned letter from Faulty Towers - the dining experience. Date: September 27, 2025 To. Mr and Mrs Fawlty, Faulty Towers. Dear Mr and Mrs Fawlty,

Twinless is a joyously unconventional, astutely written, directed, and gloriously performed cinematic delight that jettisons predictability in favour of a far more fascinating exploration of grief and loneliness. ★★★★★ The Indian actress and director, Neena Gupta, once said, "Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes, and it is a very difficult phase." The same could be said of grief.

Despite its modern-day setting, 'Love Quirks: A New Musical' at The Other Palace feels strangely stuck in the '90s. As a result, it offers little that speaks to the challenges twenty-somethings face today when navigating city, work, and love lives in our fast, insular, and impatient digital world. ★★ Life is messy, and love even more so. Discovering what and who we want, while separating our fantasy from the harsh realities of life, can be a minefield that sees more than a few of us step on several incendiary devices.

Hosted by WOW guest curator Jordan Stephens, the one-off evening will explore the most pressing issues affecting men and boys today. The initial lineup includes inequality economist Gary Stevenson, Poet Sam Browne, and WOW Founder and Director Jude Kelly CBE, with more special guests to be announced. WOW - Women of the World have announced WOW Presents… An Evening with Jordan Stephens and Friends…

Created, executive produced and written by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, Blue Lights, series three is set to plunge viewers into a dark world lurking beneath the surface of middle-class life in Belfast, as the collapse of the old political and criminal order has paved the way for a new era of global gangs. Watch Blue Lights series three on…

Vertigo Releasing has announced the long-awaited return of Kevin Smith's cult classic Dogma to UK and Irish cinemas on 7th November in a heavenly 4K restoration to mark its 25th anniversary. Dogma premiered Out of Competition at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival and returned to the Croisette in 2025 as part of the prestigious Cannes Classics section. Now the gloriously remastered…

One Battle After Another is a masterpiece as it speeds through numerous genres with glee, while deftly dissecting the political extremism at the heart of modern-day America with a razor-sharp scalpel, ferocious energy and a wry smile. ★★★★★ The former United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002), once said, "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all".

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Bold, witty and fantastical, Eugène Green's The Tree of Knowledge (A Árvore do Conhecimento), holding its world premiere at Fantastic Fest, is a mesmerising and playful exploration of what it means to be Portuguese and, over that, what it means to be human in a fractured world ★★★★ The history of any country is full of contradictions, moments of seismic change, confused narratives, and inaccuracies that become accepted facts over time.

Festival Capsule - quick read capsule film and TV reviews from national and international film festivals covered by Cinerama.

Written by BAFTA, Tony and Olivier award-winning screenwriter Jack Thorne, 'The Hack' is a seven-part ITV Studios co-production with Stan Australia about the phone hacking scandal. Starring David Tennant, Robert Carlyle and Toby Jones, and produced by the team who brought us 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office', 'The Hack' will air on ITV1 and ITVX from September 24. Set between 2002 and 2012, the drama deftly interweaves two…

More laughs, more adventures and some immersive world-building are all in store in the second series of the BAFTA award-winning Juice. Juice series two will premiere on BBC iPlayer and BBC Three on Thursday, 18 September. Jamma’s (Mawaan Rizwan) clowning around has landed him at the heart of a perfect storm: jobless, sofa-surfing, single, and back working with his brother Isaac, played by Mawaan's younger brother…

'ParaNorman' is a movie about belonging, friendship, community, and forgiveness, celebrating what makes us human in life and in death. Beautiful, captivating and funny, with a stunning score by Jon Brion, ParaNorman celebrates everything that makes us different and unique in a world that often wants us to be the same. LAIKA's 'ParaNorman' will re-release in newly remastered 3D and 2D formats as part of the studio's year-long 20th Anniversary celebration this October…