Now on iPhone and Android
The FirstCinema app is out on the App Store and Google Play, and the site picked up friends' activity, member badges and lists you can browse by tag.
The app is out
FirstCinema for iPhone is live on the App Store, next to the Android app on Google Play. Both are free, and both sign you into the account you already have.
Everything is where you left it: your diary, your lists, your watchlist, the people you follow and every rating you have given. Log a film as the credits roll and it is on your profile by the time you next open the site. Tap a FirstCinema link on your phone, whether it came in a message or a search result, and it opens in the app rather than the browser.
On your phone
Quick actions on any poster. Press and hold a film anywhere in the app to rate it, log a viewing, like it, put it on your watchlist or drop it into a list, without leaving the screen you are on. Tap the poster on a film page to see the artwork on its own.
Search that filters and sorts. Pick genres from the chips or the filter sheet, sort the results, and get something to look at before you have typed anything. Browse has the same controls.
Friends on the film page. Who you follow that watched, rated, liked, reviewed or shelved the film in front of you, and what they wrote about it.
New From Friends on the home screen: what the people you follow have been logging lately, in place of the old following rail.
Lists, rebuilt. Shelves for lists picked for you and lists other members are reading, a tag strip for browsing by subject, and cards that say what a list is actually about.
Members and people. Member cards you can follow from without opening the profile, a search field for finding somebody by name, and people rows carrying what each person is best known for.
Notifications that stack. Five people liking the same review is one row now instead of five, and the lot sits under Today, Yesterday, This week and Earlier. Filter down to People, Films, Account, or only what you have not read.
A better appearance screen. Themes preview as miniatures of the app rather than words on a switch, and every language shows its own name in its own script.
One profile page. The tab band is gone. Favorites, taste, diary and lists all read down a single page.
On the web
New From Friends and popular lists on the home page. Recent activity from the members you follow, and the lists other people are actually reading.
Lists you can browse. Filter by tag, sort the results, and follow the curators worth following from the sidebar. Every list gets a proper header with its own posters.
Member cards on hover. Hold the pointer over anybody's name or avatar, in a review, a comment, a list, a guide or a follower list, and their profile comes to you rather than the other way round.
Badges. Members carry badges on their profile and next to everything they write, each one explaining itself when you point at it.
Social profiles. Add your usernames under Settings, Connections and each becomes a link in your profile header, with a switch per network so you can add one without showing it. YouTube joined the list.
Ask for a missing film. Request anything the catalogue does not carry, from the films page or straight out of a Letterboxd import, and you get a notification when it lands.
Bigger Letterboxd imports. Uploads up to 25MB and as many as 1,000 lists, which covers a decade of logging rather than a couple of years.
Your watchlist shapes what is coming. Films you have shelved now push their way up the now playing and coming soon rails, so an unreleased film you are waiting for is not buried under whatever is popular.
This page. Anything worth telling you about now gets written down here, on the site and in the app, and you are shown it once the next time you visit.
An apps page. What is in the apps, where to get them, and what happens if you would rather not install anything.
Smaller things
Accent colors that were invisible on the light theme are fixed, and the palette was reworked for contrast across both themes.
Reviews brought over from Letterboxd that arrived showing their own markup have been repaired.
Signing in with Google, and connecting an account afterwards, no longer leaves you looking signed out.
Accounts that have been deleted now disappear cleanly from listings, comments and reviews rather than leaving gaps behind.
Hovering a film and moving through the footer no longer shifts the things around them.