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Connor Lightbody
@calbody.bsky.social
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿film critic, usually spotted at Film Festivals | ✍️for TakeONE, LWL, Pop Heist, Indy Voices, Awards Watch, The Skinny, FilmStories +more| 🏳️‍🌈Bi | 🍅-approved | Standing for 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 | He/Him | GALECA member
Curses in Volpi and Casino-sized screenings
August 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Unmissable in its next few Edinburgh Film Festival showings: DEAD LOVER
August 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Spent the last four days in Lincoln with the family; incl outdoor pool, hot tub, music festival and a retro cinema for a screening of The Little Mermaid with the kids🫶
August 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Year 5 incoming #Venice
August 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Looking to expand my writing portfolio!

🍅-Approved critic
🫶GALECA member

Going to Edinburgh Festival (Aug 13-17) and Venice (Aug 27-Sep 2), and I can attend fortnightly screenings of upcoming releases through the Scottish FDA

Let me write for you!!

DM me!
Or 📧calbodyAThotmail.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
My heart is so unbelievably full from seeing one of my all time favourite films on the big screen tonight 🫶
July 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
World Snooker Championship first round begins today

My predictions in bold:
April 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Story told in three parts
April 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Excerpt which discusses why I, as a working class critic living hand to mouth, got a lot out of the film plus discussion on how sapping the workforce of energy makes them fall in line:
March 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Greatly enjoyed the Q&A for ON FALLING tonight. Some really great questions!! Not a “more of a comment than a question” in sight

(Film really good! No enemies need be invited!!)
March 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This has been on my radar since TriBeCa last year! Excited to *finally* catch this ✌️#OnFalling
March 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Ecstatic to chat with the directors and cast of HONEY BUNCH this afternoon, which will no doubt end up as one of my favourite films of 2025. A real treat! Go in with zero knowledge for the best experience
February 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It is!! I wrote 3k words on it for uni a few years back and this lwlies.com/articles/boy...
1k piece for LWL so I’m right on that train with you. It’s a minor miracle. One of my comfort films (and on my eventual S&S ballot)
February 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Will be returning to the Berlinale next week! Any editors out for coverage of the festival DM me or contact me on:

calbody @ hotmail [dot] com

Let’s talk about what I can do for you this #BerlinFilmFestival ✌️
February 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Added another tattoo to the film sleeve today
January 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Over three weeks and no new @takeonecinema.net pod. How come, chief Willoughby?
January 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Entered the age of 31 with a very drunk bottomless brunch and an arcade that lights up said bottomless brunch necklace thing
January 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Good to know critics are calling The Brutalist “electryfing”
January 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
FWIW: my feelings on September 5 linked below summed up in this screenshot
December 14, 2024 at 4:12 PM
CARRY-ON: Cat-and-mouse thriller that marks the return of Collet-Serra’s mid-budget schlocky B-movie roots. It’s no RUN ALL NIGHT (Serra’s best) but this is generally sturdy, Capital-S Silly but satisfying festive action schlock

Note: so regressively right-wing you’d think it was co-wrote by Trump
December 14, 2024 at 3:12 PM
What I thought of 2024’s best score
December 13, 2024 at 2:05 PM
One of the joys of writing for Movies We Texted About is the freedom to describe the abs of the films sexy snowman as “carved out like a horny Michelangelo chiseling out his statue of David”
December 12, 2024 at 8:40 PM
December 12, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Berlinale, year three.
December 12, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Yes! That’s almost exactly what I said in my review of it
December 12, 2024 at 12:24 AM