Whether it’s making the grand gesture or the daily grind of enduring love – romantic comedies always have a way of pointing out some essential truth
December 2018
Top US films 2018
The 50 best movies of 2018 in the US: the full list
Top UK films 2018
The 50 best films of 2018 in the UK: the full list
June 2018
How gay cinema is calling on the past to point at a radical future
A wave of quietly revolutionary films are taking a thoughtful and celebratory look at queer identity – and reaping the rewards at the box office
April 2018
Box office analysis: UK
Rampage digs its heels in at UK box office, but sunshine is real winner
Box office analysis: UK
On the Rampage: Dwayne Johnson hunts down Peter Rabbit at UK box office
Box office analysis: UK
Peter Rabbit digs in for a fourth week on top at UK box office
Film blog
Love, Simon: Russell T Davies and more on why the gay teen movie is a 'glorious victory'
Love, Simon review – a landmark in LGBTQ cinema
Culture highlights of the week
What to see this week in the UK
Love, Simon review – heartwarming gay romance
Othello as an out lesbian: why Golda Rosheuvel's time is now
Love, Simon: at last Hollywood is saying ‘I’m gay’
March 2018
What Alan Cumming's role as a gay lead means for mainstream TV
In Instinct, the actor plays a spy-author-professor-detective whose sexuality is both irrelevant and groundbreaking
The gay romcom Love, Simon is a revolution wrapped in candyfloss
Matthew Todd
It’s the standard Hollywood teen fare – except its protagonist is gay. I just wish it had been around when I was young, says Matthew Todd, author of Straight Jacket: How to be gay and happy
How gay comedy Love, Simon breaks boundaries by playing it safe
There’s something surprisingly subversive about the glossy crowd-pleasing commercialism of a teen movie with a coming out narrative
February 2018
First look review
Love, Simon review – coming-out comedy is a landmark teen classic
The familiar formula of high school movie is boosted by warmth, humor and remarkable delicacy surrounding the difficulty of being a gay teenager