Illustration by Maddy Maguire Every woman with a Letterboxd account and an attraction to the opposite sex can tell you precisely where they were when Timothée Chalamet first bewitched them. Personally, I was in my living room, pretending to revise for my A-level mocks. Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird (2019) was on the television, muted, and I looked up for two seconds only to forget what it meant to breathe. It’s a terrible truth, but it is my own. There Timothée was, in all his French-American...

Photo by Rawpixel via Openverse (licensed under CC0 1.0 ) Most disheartening about the reception to Game of Thrones’ final season was what it seemed to mean for future on-screen adaptations of George R.R. Martin’s work. With spinoffs being announced and then cancelled left, right and centre, and Martin himself beginning to openly blog about his own feelings of disappointment, fans began to take any A Song of Ice and Fire news with a pinch of salt. For a while, the legacy of one of...

Harry Lighton’s directorial debut, Pillion (2025), is everything it says on the tin and more. Inspired by Adam Mars-Jones’s novel, Box Hill (2020), we follow the relationship—or, perhaps more appropriately, arrangement—shared between two gay men living in south-east London—one an unassuming, barbershop-singing parking warden, and the other a mysterious, unabashedly kinky biker.