The Letterboxd Show

This week Mitchell and Slim discuss their growing watchlists including Magic Mike’s Last Dance, Sharper and Baby Ruby. Mitchell also demands Panic Room be released on Blu-Ray. After a quick look back at recent releases and community reviews they discuss their watchlists and the brand new blazing Letterboxd Hot 100(tm) . Weekend Watchlist – Updated Weekly list > movies mentioned in this episode....

Mia, Brian and Gemma talk with the most Academy Awarded Australian of all-time, Catherine Martin—production and costume designer of Elvis —about tight butts and Baz Lurhmann’s secret dance skills. We examine the Letterboxd data for To Leslie , from the film’s SXSW premiere last year through to its recent Oscar nomination for leading actress. And we revisit the first movie to receive the Sundance G...

This week Mitchell , Mia and Slim discuss their growing watchlists including Knock at the Cabin, 80 for Brady and Godland. Mitchell also puts out the call for a website that accurately lists out Video On Demand releases. After a quick look back at recent releases and community reviews they discuss how they spent the month of January and reveal the most watchlisted movies of the week on Letterboxd....

In episode five of Letterboxd’s limited series awards season podcast, Mia, Brian and Gemma examine the Sundance-to-Oscars pipeline, chat with John Carney, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emilia Jones in Park City, assess the Sundance Film Festival’s 2023 winners, chat with Ana de Armas’ hair and makeup team from Blonde —Jaime Leigh McIntosh and Tina Roesler Kerwin—and revisit the first film to win the “b...

The Oscar nominations are in, as are the BAFTAs, and all is now noisy on the western front as awards season shifts up a gear. Mia , Gemma and Brian look at how the nominees stack up against the Letterboxd community’s favorites, have a rant about snubs, fat-suits and the lack of Black and women directors, and a warm moment for all the tender men. Then we chat with Rotten Tomatoes’ awards editor Jac...

As a flurry of guild nominations land, Mia, Brian and Gemma discuss their fave noms and gongs from the directors’, art directors’ and cinematographers’ unions. A quick look at the Golden Globes leads to a discussion on which awards Letterboxd would love to live-stream. EE BAFTA Rising Star award public voting is open!  And it’s animation time: Turning Red director Domee Shi has a message for...

The Daniels read 1-star and 5-star Letterboxd reviews! Jenny Slate, S.S. Rajamouli, Johnny Knoxville, Charlotte Wells and more Year in Review chart-toppers phone in with their thanks to the Letterboxd community! Hosts Mia, Brian and Gemma stare googly-eyed into the bagel to investigate the highest rated films of the past year. This supersized episode also sees Jack’s Facts joining for a deep dive...

Does Roger Deakins ever lose his rag? Find out in the first full episode of Letterboxd’s limited series awards season podcast, in which Mia Vicino ,  Brian Formo  and  Gemma Gracewood go over the 95th Academy Awards shortlists, praise Kirsten Dunst’s Oscar voting diligence, talk to the G.O.A.T. of cinematography about Empire of Light and his work in animation, and form a fellowship...

This week Mitchell , Mia and slim discuss the most anticipated movies of 2023 according to Letterboxd members. It’s an episode so massive we needed all three hosts! Mitchell also makes shocking revelations about having multiple watchlists. After a deep dive into what the hosts are looking forward to in 2023 releases, they also make some movie-watching predictions for the upcoming year. It’s a diff...

This week Mia and Slim discuss their growing watchlists including Babylon, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and Women Talking . Mia also talks about which foreign movie is really her Avatar . After a quick look back at recent releases and community reviews they discuss their Holiday Watchlists and using mind powers to drift into the dreams of poor otters. Weekend Watchlist – Updated Weekly list &...

A short introduction to Best in Show , Letterboxd’s new limited podcast series covering the 2022–2023 film awards season. Meet your hosts: Mia Vicino , Brian Formo and Gemma Gracewood , as they share what film awards mean to them, reveal the trophies they won in their youth, and call on The Muppets, Todd Field and the LA Dodgers to help contextualize the practice of judging something “the best”. P...

It’s the great quintuple fist-pump high-five joining of the podcast forces for a yuletide cracker of festive delights. Hosts of The Letterboxd Show , Weekend Watchlist and our soon-to-launch Best in Show awards-season pod gather to get seasonally affected by Carol ( Brian ); Bridget Jones’s Diary ( Mia ); Eyes Wide Shut ( Mitchell ); Batman Returns ( Slim ) and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ( Gem...

This week Mitchell and Slim discuss their growing watchlists including Avatar: The Way of Water , Bardo and Nanny . Slim also talks about doing a weekly watchlist cleanse. After a quick look back at recent releases and community reviews, they shuffle their watchlists and discuss exploding intestines and grimy New York City. Weekend Watchlist – Updated Weekly list > movies mentioned in this epis...

If you follow any of our social channels, you’re about to meet the genius behind the team behind the TikToks. Letterboxd’s head of social, Aaron Yap , joins Gemma and Slim to tell us about childhood memories of Malaysian DVD stores, and his four favorites: The Brainiac ; Footprints ; Local Hero and Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession . Plus: Aaron’s early memories of bodily reactions to ’80s horror...

This week Slim and Mia discuss their growing watchlists including The Whale, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio and Empire of Light . Mia also talks about sexy candles and the two different Americas. After a quick look back at recent releases and community reviews, they shuffle their watchlists and discuss Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time list . Weekend Watchlist – Updated Weekly list >...

Dead or alive, Slim is watching RoboCop . Cinephile: A Card Game creator, author and Letterboxd member Cory Everett joins Mitchell and Slim to tell us all about his new collection of children’s board books, My First Movie , curating his four favorites around them: RoboCop ; The Bird with the Crystal Plumage ; Pierrot Le Fou and Murder, My Sweet . Plus: Cinephile as a lifeline for social engagement...

This week Mitchell and Mia discuss their growing watchlists including Violent Night, The Eternal Daughter and Emancipation . Mia also talks about the sexification of Santa. After a quick look back at recent releases and community reviews, they shuffle their watchlists and discuss watching depressing movies. Weekend Watchlist – Updated Weekly list > movies mentioned in this episode. Letterboxd r...

Podcaster , The New York Times columnist and Letterboxd member Jamelle Bouie joins Gemma and Slim to talk about American political thrillers and his four Letterboxd faves: Children of Men ; Black Dynamite ; The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) and Touch of Evil . Plus: why is filmmaker David Lowery starstruck by Jamelle, the two faces of Harrison Ford, the days of loafing around watching TBS...

This week Mia and Slim discuss their growing watchlists including Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Strange World and Devotion . Mia also does her best Norah Jones impression and we talk about our upcoming Black Friday sale on Pro/Patron . After a quick look back at recent releases and community reviews, they shuffle their watchlists and discuss why watching duds can be a good thing. Sign up for...

Filmmaker and YouTuber Ryan Connolly of Film Riot joins Gemma and Slim to throw some Dutch angles on his four Letterboxd faves, which all happen to be action films of the 1990s: Speed ; Die Hard with a Vengeance ; The Game and The Matrix . Plus: why Speed has the greatest film score of all time, how did that bus jump that gap, Jeff Daniels and Dennis Hopper cheek-to-cheek, how Keanu reinvented the...

This week Mitchell and slim discuss their growing watchlists including Bones and All, The Menu and She Said . There is also a discussion about a topless Dennis Quaid so YMMV. After a quick look back at recent releases and community reviews, they shuffle their watchlists with witchy camping trips gone wrong and Jackie Earle Haley in a wig. Weekend Watchlist – Updated Weekly list > movies mention...

Author and filmmaker Kier-La Janisse joins Slim and Mitchell to discuss the tenth-anniversary expanded edition of her book House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography Of Female Neurosis In Horror And Exploitation Films , as well as taking a dive through her four favorite films: Over the Edge ; Melody ; Cockfighter and The Last Wave . Plus: Kier-La’s trick to seeming so productive; Mat...

This week Mia and slim discuss their growing watchlists including Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, The Fabelmans and Falling for Christmas . Mia also makes some shocking Best Picture predictions. After a quick look back at recent releases and community reviews, they shuffle their watchlists with sexy eyebrow man and sexy vampire man. Weekend Watchlist – Updated Weekly list > movies mentioned in...

“I am fed up to the teeth with all these old, dead legends.” Writer and classical music fan Fran Hoepfner joins Gemma and Mia to talk us through her four favorite films on Letterboxd: Miloš Forman’s Amadeus ; Merchant-Ivory’s A Room With a View ; Mike Leigh’s Topsy-Turvy and Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women . Plus: why we can’t stop talking about TÁR (and what Fran would love to hear Lydia conduct...

This week Mitchell and slim discuss their growing watchlists including Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, The Wonder and Causeway . Is it time to look back on the Don’t Look Up discourse? (No.) After a quick look back at recent releases and community reviews, they shuffle their watchlists with weird stylish gibberish, assorted quaaludes, and maybe hear from the Scream King (tm) Justin Long. Weekend Wat...