526 Films, 39 Articles — A Year in Film and Writing

What 12 months of film and writing taught me

Credit: Medusa Film — Consequences of Love (2004) — My favorite film of the year

It’s wild to think how much can happen in a year, a year ago I wasn’t much of a writer. I always loved the idea of writing. I’d try starting novels, but they’d crash and burn by the second chapter.

I had this fantasy of cranking out articles every day, but that’s all it was — a fantasy. I never picked up the pen, never touched the keyboard, never sat in front of a screen to actually do it. That all changed this year.

Fast forward to today, I’ve watched 526 films and penned 39 articles. This isn’t just about numbers — it’s about what I learned in the process.

I started with Letterboxd reviews and then moved here. My first two articles were self-published and basically copy-pasted from my Letterboxd. My first-ever published piece, a review of Inside Out 2, went up on June 16th.

Fast forward to today, and I watched a mammoth 526 feature films and wrote 39 articles — 31 on film and 8 on sports. It wasn’t just a year of watching and writing; it was a year of learning, pushing myself, and finding out what stories I actually wanted to tell and see.

I’ve been watching films for as long as I can remember. In fact, I think I learned English by watching films. After…