So what qualifies a film for coverage here?

Ultimately, this site is a personal project, guided by personal taste, so the remit will always remain subjective. But we hope the below gives some insight into our thinking.

Films we cover may be on general release in cinemas. They might be newly available via streamers like Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Mubi and Netflix. They might be coming up on TV and/or available via traditional broadcasters like the BBC, Channel 4 or ITV and their online platforms, or non-traditional broadcasters like YouTube. We would love to cover more Blu-Ray releases. In short, we’re platform-neutral right now, with a preference for cinema releases, but we’re aware that a lot of really great cinema reaches people via smaller screens and want to reflect that.

We’re also genre-neutral. Films selected will be some or all of the following: films we thought were noteworthy, enjoyable, worth watching, talking points, entertaining, significant, films we’d recommend you see.

They don’t have to be perfect, they don’t have to be masterpieces, and we’ll actively be trying to represent a range of genres, since good cinema is always varied. We will be avoiding hate-watching and panning films. There’s a very valid place for negative critique in film journalism, especially for sites which comprehensively review everything, but with this site, we’re trying to highlight what we personally found worthwhile.

Not every film will be a new release. We tend to focus on new releases, but restorations or special screenings of older films we love are absolutely eligible.

In general we try to cover films at the point at which they are made available to the general public, rather than months in advance. Occasionally, we may review a film early via a press screening or out of a film festival if we’re simply too excited to wait to share the good news. This will be the exception rather than standard practice. We sometimes review films late, too. Fasten your seatbelts…

Catherine Bray & Guy Lodge