This month’s Call Sheet is a tad slimmer than usual because — drumroll, please — we’ve been flat-out busy launching our Letterboxd iPhone app!

Letterboxd for iPhone

It’s free to download through Apple’s App Store right now. We’re ecstatic to put this app in your pocket (18,000 of you have grabbed it already!), and excited about how it will evolve the way we use Letterboxd. You can read more about the app’s current and future features over on our blog.

And yes, we know our Android users are keen on your own version. It’s in the pipeline, along with our public API release. (iPhone came first because we were able to develop it in-house.)

In other site enhancements, we recently added the ability for you to compare your watchlist with any other member’s. Visit a friend’s watchlist page and select “In Your Watchlist” from the Visibility menu (represented by an “eye” icon) to see where you and your friend’s viewing needs intersect.

Also, by popular demand, we’ll be adding your rating beside each film while editing a list, to make ranking by rating a little easier. Look for that next week.

All in all, we’re very ’appy at HQ right now. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

Happy watching,
The Letterboxd crew

Opening Credits

In cinemas and coming soon
Bourne 5
Jason Bourne

Matt Damon is back from Mars and he’s really punchy in his fourth collaboration with director Paul Greengrass, and the fifth film in the Bourne franchise (the first featuring Jason Bourne since The Bourne Ultimatum).

Ghostbusters

A trailer for the all-female Ghostbusters is out, and alongside the promised laughs and vomiting ghosts, there’s Chris Hemsworth sporting nerdy glasses and his native Australian accent. We ain’t afraid o’ no ghosts.

The BFG

Roald Dahl’s gigantic children’s favorite The BFG, about a girl named Sophie and her big friendly giant pal, is brought to life by director Steven Spielberg and the late, great screenwriter Melissa Mathison.

Sausage Party

In August, Seth Rogen and company launch their R-rated food torture comedy on the world. Sausage Party features voice artistry from the likes of Hayek, Wiig, Rudd and Norton (!), and an epic Saving Private Ryan gag.

To get miles ahead on more upcoming releases and trailers, head over to The Trailer Park, a list updated by Phips.

Star Wars

One star vs five stars, fight!
Hail, Caesar!

Hail, Caesar!

★ “Sitting in the theater for this was an almost torturous experience. Hail, Caesar is just an awful movie. Plain and simple. This was by far my least favorite Coen bros. film. Didn’t think it could get worse than A Serious Man. I was wrong. Whatever I was supposed to get from this definitely didn’t reach me. Earth to movie Gods. Tell me why I’m supposed to like this sorry suck-ass movie please. Let me know.” —Nick Kreighbaum

★★★★★ “Top tier Coens, and arguably the apex of their own particular brand of absurdist mysticism. The visual playground of Old Hollywood deceptively doubles for both a secular and spiritual economic system, in which our Hollywood fixer/studio chief wrestles with both the currency of the American dollar as well as spending his own sins at the confessional booth.

“I’ve seen some complain about the overwhelming number of characters, but A.) that’s always been the Coens’ MO, and B.) each character seems to illustrate a distinct point. Those who have discovered their roles thrive (but still exist within their own “levels”), while others (even movie stars) stumble like buffoons and are guided by forces beyond their control. Oh, and Deakins shoots the shit out of the picture, each set piece carrying a hallucinatory vibe while also adding to the movie’s textured environment. There’s so much here to unpack that multiple viewings seem not just warranted, but necessary and (certainly) welcome.” —Jacob Knight

Old School

Recent reviews of the classics
Mean Streets

Mean Streets

“Mean Streets works because Scorsese, while trying to be a documentarian of his own culture and childhood, relies on the lessons he learned from directors like Minnelli more than Hitchcock. In the future, he would make the camera an active and participatory member (implicating the audience at every moment). Here, he allows the image to simply speak for itself—the goal is to present these bodies, these cultures, and these emotions.”Peter Labuza

This Is The End

Fight Club

Congratulations, we survived another awards season! Let’s all refresh our watchlists and take up a challenge that has nothing to do with the Hollywood campaign circus. Or, maybe, work your way through this list of movies that use the Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind?” to express the mental state of a character whose grip on reality is beginning to deteriorate.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

ZOMG. Indy is coming back! Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg are on board for a fifth Indiana Jones adventure to be released July 19, 2019, according to Disney. Bonus: no mention of George Lucas or Shia LaBeouf. We’re excited and hope, despite his years, that this next film will include plenty of Harrison Ford running.

The 40 Year Old Virgin

With Easter fast approaching, here’s a slightly related list of films rated morally offensive by the Catholic Church, compiled from ratings based on reviews by the Catholic News Service and the former Office for Film and Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Station to Station

Member Graham Williamson has made a huge list of Films That Are Not David Bowie Songs, which are films that are also titles of David Bowie songs. (Yes, we're still in mourning.)

Pulp Fiction

Crew member Matthew Buchanan has compiled a list of films that appear most often in the Favorite Films section of your profiles. Perhaps more interesting — and certainly more diverse — he’s also made a version of this list based on the ratio of fans to the number of members who’ve watched each film, rather than raw totals.