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
Curses in Volpi and Casino-sized screenings
Unmissable in its next few Edinburgh Film Festival showings: DEAD LOVER
August 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Unmissable in its next few Edinburgh Film Festival showings: DEAD LOVER
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
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🫶
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
🍅-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
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
🍅-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
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
My heart is so unbelievably full from seeing one of my all time favourite films on the big screen tonight 🫶
World Snooker Championship first round begins today
My predictions in bold:
My predictions in bold:
April 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
World Snooker Championship first round begins today
My predictions in bold:
My predictions in bold:
Story told in three parts
April 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Story told in three parts
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
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:
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!!)
(Film really good! No enemies need be invited!!)
March 12, 2025 at 9:01 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!!)
(Film really good! No enemies need be invited!!)
This has been on my radar since TriBeCa last year! Excited to *finally* catch this ✌️#OnFalling
March 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This has been on my radar since TriBeCa last year! Excited to *finally* catch this ✌️#OnFalling
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
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
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)
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
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)
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)
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 ✌️
calbody @ hotmail [dot] com
Let’s talk about what I can do for you this #BerlinFilmFestival ✌️
February 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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 ✌️
calbody @ hotmail [dot] com
Let’s talk about what I can do for you this #BerlinFilmFestival ✌️
Added another tattoo to the film sleeve today
January 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Added another tattoo to the film sleeve today
Over three weeks and no new @takeonecinema.net pod. How come, chief Willoughby?
January 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Over three weeks and no new @takeonecinema.net pod. How come, chief Willoughby?
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
Entered the age of 31 with a very drunk bottomless brunch and an arcade that lights up said bottomless brunch necklace thing
Good to know critics are calling The Brutalist “electryfing”
January 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Good to know critics are calling The Brutalist “electryfing”
FWIW: my feelings on September 5 linked below summed up in this screenshot
December 14, 2024 at 4:12 PM
FWIW: my feelings on September 5 linked below summed up in this screenshot
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
Note: so regressively right-wing you’d think it was co-wrote by Trump
December 14, 2024 at 3:12 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
Note: so regressively right-wing you’d think it was co-wrote by Trump
What I thought of 2024’s best score
December 13, 2024 at 2:05 PM
What I thought of 2024’s best score
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
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 7:47 PM
Berlinale, year three.
December 12, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Berlinale, year three.
Yes! That’s almost exactly what I said in my review of it
December 12, 2024 at 12:24 AM
Yes! That’s almost exactly what I said in my review of it