For Valentine’s Day, Letterboxd staff and contributors celebrate the cinematic couples who make us swoon, sigh and shout, “Love is real!”—from Jackie Brown and Max Cherry to Charles Grodin and Miss Piggy.

As spooky season officially begins, the Letterboxd crew (with a little help from some filmmaker friends) scares up twenty-plus of our favorite horror performances—from Shelley Duvall and Claude Rains to Nicole Kidman and Snoop Dogg.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes a Lily Gladstone dance, Ellen Burstyn on a couch, queer rodeos, Argentinian janitors and more.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes star-crossed Senegalese lovers, a PTSD-stricken comedian, life-affirming vampires and one of the most important European chroniclers of our time.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes a Coen-esque neo-Western, soulful Texan rappers, goopy Oregonian body horror and a Sundance award-winning Lithuanian romance.

Iranian filmmaker Ehsan Khoshbakht tells John Forde about his new documentary Celluloid Underground, the influence of Orson Welles and cinema as a revolutionary act.

As audiences worldwide go wild for Andrew Scott as the latest incarnation, John Forde surveys the legacy of the talented Tom Ripley, cinema’s most enduring grifter.

To celebrate 100 years of Columbia Pictures, John Forde examines the deep impact of William Wyler’s Funny Girl, from the queer appeal of Barbra Streisand to the rise and fall of the Hollywood musical.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes animated chicken, Iranian wrestling, Indigenous astronomy and girl-centric documentaries about American activism.

With Housekeeping for Beginners releasing in select US cinemas, writer-director Goran Stolevski chats with John Forde about representing the reality of Macedonian and Romani queer families, unconventional mothering and his love of Robert Altman.

For Valentine’s Day, the Letterboxd crew reminisce on ten of our worst dates at the movies, from foot lotion mishaps to foot-long sandwich calamities, and wonder what kind of film could survive an awkward debut outing.

As our new showtimes feature goes wide, the Letterboxd crew share our favorite 2023 cinema experiences—from a no-seats Stop Making Sense dance party to a raucous Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging rep screening to a near-religious John Wick 4 multiplex return.