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New look, new format, same Journal. Welcome to Series 4. It was a film that introduced non-F1 viewers to the iconic Hunt/Lauda rivalry with Chris Hem…

Having swapped cinemas for stadiums for 14 weekends a year… certain adventures in Salford didn’t stop a staple of the blog’s content. Long time fan…

Start your engines - once again, it’s time to Wipe off 2023 and review it in style. Jack Smit takes a look back at a 12 months of strikes, solid f…

It’s almost time for the big end of year wrapup episode of The Journal that a lot of our fans ask us to make. 2023 Wipe is being cooked in the edit…

Slightly later than anticipated (like an Evri courier), Jack Smit takes a satirical and irreverant look back at a year of great films, English sporti…

The mid-series finale for Series 3, and our first Journal to be shot on-location since July 2019 Marathons. Feats of endurance. They definitely involv…

It’s a double bill of Journals this month, and we’re starting off with some spice. Letterboxd is a big social media site for film nerds - and it’s a …

The Journal returns for its third series, and as ever, we’re going deep with a rant. This time - Jack breaks apart the worst kids film he’s reviewe…

WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BEFORE CINEMAS WERE CLOSED Cinemas may not be around to show films right now- but why let that get in the way of a good old ‘g…

In May 2018, an animated film created a major buzz for the wrong reasons thanks to a scene which arguably isn’t PG. Jack hated that movie. So of co…

The 80s signalled a huge shift in the way film fans got access to their content- so of course, we wheeled Jack out for the first time since our 2…

The mid-season finale of season 2, and our little tribute to Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe as he isn’t doing a new year in review programme this yea…

The industry has had a long history of using gimmicks to drive that ticket price upwards. This month, Jack takes 50 years of innovation and crams it …

It’s a proper exhibition special this month. With the end of the year approaching, Jack looks at how the big 3, and some of the independents have f…

It was only a matter of time. The Queen’s Corgi. A $20million animated film, made in Belgium. It was awful. Naturally I had a lot to say about it.�…

In the season premiere of The Journal, it’s time to go deep  into last year’s shambolic Robin Hood.

To celebrate the launch of the podcast, here’s an extended cut of the March Journal with 15 minutes of never before seen footage.

This month, Jack dons his ‘lecturer tie’ once again to take a look in to some of the cinemas that he wrote about for his dissertation- which helped h…

After a long 2 months of dissertation writing, Jack returns to The Journal with a little update on how all of that stuff has gone.