The Letterboxd Show

You Must Remember This podcast creator and reformed movie critic Karina Longworth joins hosts Gemma and Slim for a steamy conversation about erotic American cinema of the 1980s via four of her ’80s faves related to the new season of her show: Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo , Brian De Palma’s Body Double , Adrian Lyne’s Nine 1/2 Weeks and Roger Donaldson’s No Way Out . Plus: how to become an Ameri...

Weekend Watchlist is Letterboxd’s weekly show focused on new movies dropping in theaters and streaming. Join us every Thursday as we discuss our growing watchlists. We’ll get through this. Together. This week Mitchell and Slim talk about Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore , Dual , Paris: 13th District and look back at Ambulance , Sonic the Hedgehog 2 , All the Old Knives , and Tony Hawk:...

Everything Everywhere All at Once writer-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert join hosts Gemma and Slim for an unabashed conversation about love, empathy, crying, dopamine, their movie’s stars, and whether “this butt-plug action movie is better than The Godfather ”. Plus: time travel logic, anime adoration, Yuen Woo Ping, Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s The Sirens of Titan , imposter syndrome, how they f...

Welcome to Weekend Watchlist; Letterboxd’s weekly show focused on new movies dropping in theaters and streaming. Join us every Thursday as we discuss our growing watchlists. We’ll get through this. Together. This week Mia and Slim talk about Ambulance , Sonic the Hedgehog 2 , All the Old Knives , Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off and look back at Everything Everywhere All at Once , Morbius , Th...

The Black List ’s Kate Hagen and Next Best Picture’s Matt Neglia join hosts Gemma and Slim to send off awards season once and for all with our four favorite Oscar-nominated movies of the 94th Academy Awards, whether or not they won (most of them didn’t): Spencer , CODA , Nightmare Alley and Cyrano . Plus: Kate has has a word with Jane Campion in the Oscars press room, Slim rates CODA thirty stars,...

Welcome to Weekend Watchlist; Letterboxd’s weekly show focused on new movies dropping in theaters and streaming. Join us every Thursday as we discuss our growing watchlists. We’ll get through this. Together. This week Mitchell and Slim talk about Morbius , The Bubble , Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood , and look back at   Everything Everywhere All At Once , The Lost City , and Memoria . We a...

Griffin Newman and David Sims —two Letterboxd members who are well known to any serious lover of podcasts about movies—join hosts Gemma and Slim to lower the average rating of films on our Four Favorites seasons. From their renowned Blank Check Podcast , they select four of the best talking-point films: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace , Hulk , A.I. Artificial Intelligence and, in a Letterboxd Show e...

Welcome to Weekend Watchlist; Letterboxd’s weekly show focused on new movies dropping in theaters and streaming. Join us every Thursday as we discuss our growing watchlists. We’ll get through this. Together. This week Mia and Slim talk about Everything Everywhere All At Once , The Lost City , Infinite Storm and look back at X , Deep Water , and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy . We also spotlight the...

“Movies give us a love language of our own.” Romance is the theme on this episode, in which Letterboxd’s Mank Couple—film aficionado Erica Marquis and documentary filmmaker Ben Crew —join hosts Gemma and Slim to talk through their four romantic Letterboxd favorites: Before Sunrise , Moonstruck , WTC View and The Apartment , with a side-serving of Hitch and Love & Basketball . CW for mention of...

Welcome to Weekend Watchlist; Letterboxd’s weekly show focused on new movies dropping in theaters and streaming. Join us every Thursday as we discuss our growing watchlists. We’ll get through this. Together. This week Mia and Slim talk about X , Deep Water , Umma and look back at Turning Red and The Adam Project . We also spotlight Marvelous and the Black Hole which has jumped into Jack’s new week...

Scriptwriter and film columnist Mia Vicino (aka Brat ) joins hosts Gemma and Slim to discuss her four Letterboxd favorites: Mikey and Nicky , Down with Love , Smiley Face , Kill Bill Volume 1 . Mia also talks about reality vs perception in being a high-profile Letterboxd member, and her role as a co-host of our new weekly show, Weekend Watchlist. Plus: Elaine May’s Hollywood battles, everybody’s c...

Welcome to Weekend Watchlist, brought to you by The Letterboxd Show! A brand new weekly show focused on new movies dropping in theaters and streaming. Join us every Thursday as we discuss our growing watchlists. We’ll get through this. Together. This week Mitchell and Slim talk about Turning Red, The Adam Project, Ultrasound, and look back at The Batman and After Yang. We also spotlight The Last F...

The Letterboxd Show returns with more movie-lovin’ conversations about our four favorite films. In this season 3 premiere, hosts Gemma and Slim discuss their childhood faves: Pee Wee’s Big Adventure , Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery , Superman the Movie and Bloodsport . Was Christopher Reeve the most handsome human in history? How many times can Slim say “machismo” in one episode?...

It’s a 2021 Year in Review extravaganza! Hosts Gemma and Slim open the Letterboxd Hotline to experts on the three highest-rated films of the year: Matt Singer ( Spider-Man: No Way Home ), Juan Barquin ( Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time ) and Bintang Lestada ( Yuni )—all of whom take a moment to plead for justice for Barb & Star , woefully ignored in the Letterboxd 2021 Year in Review. Se...

We’re ecstatic to present this exclusive 90-minute audio commentary for The Beta Test . Rewatch the film with this playing in your ear and it’ll be just like having PJ and Jim in your living room! (Jim presses play on the movie at the 28-second mark, following a short intro.) Read more on Journal .

It’s a Christmas crossover episode with Joe Dante and Josh Olson from The Movies that Made Me podcast, and Gemma and Slim from The Letterboxd Show! Four hosts, four festive favorites: We’re No Angels ; Scrooge ; National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation ; and Elf (with a side of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ). Also: Joe’s reaction to our Gremlins Easter egg, the odious proliferation of Christmas mov...

Letterboxd member and filmmaker Sean Baker talks Red Rocket , and his four current Letterboxd favorites Paradise: Faith ; River’s Edge ; Oasis ; and The Sugarland Express . Plus: Sean chats with hosts Gemma and Slim about casting Suzanna Son and Simon Rex, unconventional movie merch ideas, Goldie Hawn, filming people on foot, Tangerine ’s place in the Christmas canon, Sean’s time as a cycle c...

Letterboxd crew members Aaron Yap and Mitchell Beaupre join hosts Slim and Gemma for a chat about their four favorite new films of 2021, including: Titane ; The Power of the Dog ; Malignant ; and Godzilla vs. Kong , along with the best ‘new to us’ films we saw this year. Also: fetish objects, physical-media collections, the 3.9 club, torture by banjo, Mitchell’s love for Julia Ducournau, Gemma’s t...

Irish scriptwriter and Letterboxd member Will Collins dives into his four Letterboxd favorites: Jaws ; Fargo ; Aliens; and, because it’s holiday season, It’s a Wonderful Life . Also in this chatty episode: how to use the Letterboxd heart; Gemma fangirls over Will’s work on Cartoon Saloon films Song of the Sea and Wolfwalkers ; Will fanboys over Letterboxd (“I love the lists!”); Slim fanboys over g...

To sign off Mr November, two of The National’s creative minds, lyricist Carin Besser and musician Bryce Dessner, dive deep into their four favorite films: The Green Ray and Singin’ in the Rain for Carin, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Harold and Maude for Bryce. Plus! Bryce shares all about three new films landing this holiday season with his musical stamp on them: Mike Mills’ C’mon C’m...

Noirvember continues with Austin Film Society lead programmer and exploitation genre fan Lars Nilsen , who dives into the muck and the grime, the farts and the fights, the stunts and the songs of his four Letterboxd favorites: Touch of Evil ; The Switchblade Sisters , The General ; and Phantom of the Paradise . Lars chats with hosts Gemma and Slim about his new memoir of the Alamo Drafthouse’s Wei...

Noirvember continues with podcaster and new dad Sean Fennessey , whose four favorites feature “a lot of powerful men who are f—kin’ idiots”: The Third Man ; Throne of Blood; The Candidate; and Juice.  Sean also chats with hosts  Slim  (of  70mm podcast  infamy) and  Gemma  (Letterboxd editor-in-chief) about Harry Lime’s cuckoo speech, the zither as a weapon of wa...

For Noirvember, we celebrate the new 4K release of Possession with Vulture film critic and spooky dame Angelica Jade Bastién , who joins hosts Gemma (Letterboxd editor-in-chief) and Slim (of 70mm podcast ) to discuss her four favorites, which also include Le Samouraï ; The Passionate Friends ; and The Handmaiden . Plus: the ‘Feminine Grotesque’ , that subway scene, “ Possession pink socks meaning”...

Letterboxd’s London film correspondent Ella Kemp joins hosts Gemma (Letterboxd editor-in-chief) and Slim (of 70mm podcast ) to discuss her four favorites: Moulin Rouge! ; Magnolia ; Call Me by Your Name ; and Singin’ in the Rain . Plus: Ella’s top picks from the BFI London Film Festival, making peace with problematic favs, what your favorite films reveal about you on dates, Slim’s Luhrmann aversio...

Cinematic-sex sleuth, Kate Hagen (director of community for The Black List ) discusses her four favorites— Near Dark ; Baby It’s You ; Wild at Heart ; and Morvern Callar —with hosts Gemma (Letterboxd editor-in-chief) and Slim (of 70mm podcast ). Also: the genius of how Bigelow stages action; Verhoeven’s kink for unisex shower scenes; the unacceptable decline of sex scenes in American movies;...