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Photo by Umair Dingmar on Unsplash (licensed under the Unsplash licence) In the summer of 2025, the two-part documentary ‘The Hunt for Shannon Matthews’ (Ben Sheldon, 2025) was released – all about the staged kidnapping that put my hometown of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire on the map. I watched it, of course. My whole family did. I even made my boyfriend – privately educated and capable of pronouncing his t’s – watch it too. A sort of “look at this crazy place I call home” exercis

Photo by Wallace Chuck via Pexels under the Pexels content licence “A man who’s not dangerous will never be seen as successful. You can’t be a little bitch,” Andrew Tate declares in the opening montage of Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere (2026), setting the tone for a documentary steeped in aggressive, chauvinistic rhetoric. While such vitriol may shock some viewers, it will come as little surprise to those familiar with the growing prevalence of online misogyny. In an

"My personal grief is my secret", whispers director Céline Sciamma, as she presents her short film This is How A Child Becomes a Poet on a rainy Wednesday evening in a lecture theatre at the London School of Economics.

Underland (2025) is a cinematic voyage depicting three subterranean landscapes. From caves, to storm drains, to underground laboratories; this documentary values life beneath the surface.

In Bye Bye Tiberias, director Lina Soualem traces the lineage of her Palestinian female family members. Anchored around her mother,...

‘Rebel Dykes’ is a 2021 documentary following a group of friends who meet at Greenham Common peace camp in the mid-80s, who go on to...