Letterboxd: Social Media for Movie Lovers

Are you a Cinephile? Do you want to keep updating information, ratings, and reviews of the latest and popular movies? Let me introduce you to an application called Letterboxd.

Letterboxd is an online social networking service founded by Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow in 2011. This app focuses on sharing opinions and love for movies. This site allows users to share their tastes in movies.

Here are some features on Letterboxd:

1. Following Movie Trend

When you open the app, you are immediately shown posters of movies that are currently popular this week and also your friends' watching activity. You can also read news about the world of cinema in the Journal section.

2. See Movie Preview and Give Rating

Before watching a movie, you can see information about the movie you want to watch, such as a synopsis, trailer, rating, and reviews from other users. You can also give a rating of the movies you have watched.

3. Write Review and Read Other People's Review

After rating it, you can write a review for the movie you just watched. You can also read reviews from other users. Reviews on Letterboxd vary widely, some are funny and some are serious like film critics.

4. Make Friends and Interact with Fellow Cinephiles

In Letterboxd, you can follow other users. You can see your friends' watching activity and can interact with them in the comment section.

5. Diary and Watchlist

In the diary feature, you can record your watching date. You can also add the movies you want to watch to your watchlist.

6. Create List and View other People's List

You can make a list of movies according to the category you want. You can also see lists with various categories created by other users.

7. Filmography

In this feature, you can see the biographical data and filmography of the actors, directors and crew of a film.

Those are some features of Letterboxd. Interesting right? For those of you who want to download this app, this app available on Play Store and App Store.

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