I watch a lot of films, 395 in 2022 and I’m up to 137 this year. Suffice to say I really like watching films, which leads to a very silly problem; people would ask me what I thought of something and my response would always be ‘yeah I liked that,’ because I really like watching films. My memories and responses to media get all muddled up, I needed something to organise them a little. So six months ago I made a throwaway promise to myself, to post once a week about the films I’d been watching and make a few recommendations along the way.

For the most part, it has worked. Spending the time to write down what I think of films, to processes them though a different part of my brain, has helped me form and then condense my feelings better. Now I can tell you if I actually enjoyed something, rather than give my pro forma response. That’s really what this blog has been, it’s more for me than anyone else. I’m not just here to be pithy.

People have responded super positively to my writing and it’s been genuinely inspiring. I’ve started work on some video essay scripts, I’ve written longer form pieces about things that aren’t film and generally found a new way of expressing myself. It wasn’t a side effect I was expecting, turns out practicing something once a week is a really good way to get better at it – can recommend.

So stay tuned for the rest of the year and excuse me for this, my holiday week, it’s Pride I’m hungover and everything I have to write is for my diary.