The Guardian Today in Focus: “FIFA’s president is a spineless, cash hungry moron who sold something cherished by all to an autocrat, destroying its soul for the super rich. Good on those who boycott. We should all sit with that.” Also them: “Follow all updates on the Football Daily podcast 🥰”

Favourite first time watches of November 2025: - Party girl 1995 - Touki Bouki 1973 - Eve’s Bayou 1997 - Crooklyn 1994 - Pillion 2025 - The age of innocence 1993 - Klute 1971

Favourite first time watches of October 2025: - Donkey skin, 1970 - Beauty and the Beast, 1978 - Moving, 1993 - Magic Mike XXL, 2015

When you see this and know the movie is going to hit 👌

Favourite first time watches of September 2025 - In the cut, 2003 - Deaf, 2025 - Secrets and lies, 1996 - First reformed, 2017 - Double indemnity, 1944 - Volver, 2006 - Irma Vep, 1996 - Thanos and Despina, 1967 - I know where I’m going!, 1945

Favourite first-time watches of August 2025 - Brokeback Mountain 2005 - Killer of Sheep 1978 - From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 - Stray Dog 1949 - The Laughing Woman 1969 - Desperate Living 1977 - All That Heaven Allows 1955 - The Exterminating Angel 1962 - Walking And Talking 1996 - The Surfer 2024

Favourite first time watches of May 2025 1. Losing ground, 1982 2. Letter from an unknown woman, 1948 3. Speak no evil, 2022 4. How to make millions before grandma dies, 2024 5. La Cocina, 2024 6. The ugly stepsister, 2025

Just put on Black Mirror: Hotel Reverie and Emma Corrin is just so believably 1949! (complimentary)

My first time watches lists always exclude new theatrical releases! (UK dates)

Favourite first time watches of April 2025 - The Quiet Girl 2022 - My Favourite Cake 2024 - Sunset Boulevard 1950 - Digger 2020 - Rear Window 1954 - Better Man 2024 - Animal 2023 - Z 1969 - The Flavour or Green Tea Over Rice 1952 - Mississippi Masala 1991 - Saint Omer 2022

Favourite first time watches of March 2025 - Down with love (2003) - On Falling (2024) - Mulholland Drive (2001) - The summer with Carmen (2023)

Favourite first time watches of February 2025: - The Match Factory Girl, 1990 - Asako I & II, 2018 - Ten, 2002

Favourite first-time watches of January: -A different man, 2024 -Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, 1975 -Kes, 1969 -Unrelated, 2007 -Riki-Oh: the story of Ricky, 1991 -Blue Velvet, 1986 -The passion of Joan of Arc, 1928 -I hired a contract killer, 1990 -Mädchen in uniform, 1931

I might have to rewatch all the films I saw this week. Could be my mood that prevented them from having an impact on me. That dense goo in my aura I’ve been swimming in, tainting everything between me and the world. Don’t you hate that?

Now watching

Watching now: Barry Lyndon

Favourite first watches of December: Midsommar, 2019 Sweden/US The Naked Kiss, 1964 Withnail & I, 1987 The Shop Around the Corner, 1940 Rebel Ridge, 2024 US Mufasa: Lion King, 2024 Kramer vs Kramer, 1979 Happy Christmas, 2014 Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, 2024 Hundreds of Beavers, 2022

lemon pig of 2024 before and after absorbing all my bad luck over the calendar year like a fucked up little yellow dorian grey. it is nearly time to rest, my faithful child.

Letterboxd 2024 stats - a full year

Now watching Typhoon Club 1985

Now watching: Hundreds of Beavers

A man saw me pee in Burgess park and made noises at me so I ran. Very dodgy park.

Now watching

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

Now watching “The shop around the corner”

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20

Watched last night

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20

Fave first watches of November: - Bird (2024, UK) - Scenes from a marriage (1974, Sweden) - Midnight cowboy (1969,US) - The Ascent (1977,USSR) - Between the lines (1977,US) - Border (2018, Sweden) - Laura (1944, US)

I take great pleasure out of going through people’s Letterboxd lists of their physical media film collections 🤓

Bacurau (2019) - I was shaking. Couldn’t believe I was sleeping on it for so long. Waiting to watch it with my sister when she visits for Xmas. What a treat.

We had the most exciting day planned to go see @arsenalfc.bsky.social vs Bayern Munich women’s Champions league match at Emirates stadium in December, but guess what, the women’s match is being booted to Meadow Park to accommodate the men’s team who had a home draw in the Carabao Cup. We are gutted.