A film club run like a video store. You pick something, you watch it, and you come back and tell everyone what you thought.
The video store part is not only nostalgia. Choosing a film and being stuck with it is a better way to watch than scrolling for forty minutes and giving up, and having somewhere to say what you thought afterwards is most of the pleasure.
No, and nothing gets sent to you. Watch on whatever you already have, whether that is a streaming service, a disc on the shelf, a library copy, or a seat at the cinema. Return by 9 helps you choose, gives you a deadline, and keeps track of what you have seen.
Letterboxd remembers what you watched. We help you decide what to watch next, and give you a reason to get round to it.
Keep both. Linking your Letterboxd account is the ideal way to use Return by 9, and the two fit together nicely.
Link your account in settings and your diary keeps itself in step from then on. Anything you log there arrives here on its own.
You can have three films out at once, and each one is due back by 9pm on the fifth day. Returning a film means telling the club about it: a rating, a few words, or simply that it was not for you.
Five days is meant to be comfortable. It is long enough to find an evening and short enough that the film does not quietly become homework.
You get a late fee of a dollar a day, which is not real money and never will be. Nobody is coming to collect. The deadline is there to make the choice mean something, not to catch you out.
Bring it back unwatched. That is a completely normal thing to do here, and it gets recorded as exactly that rather than as a failure. Life is short and there are a lot of films.
The clerk. He picks films for you when you would rather not decide, and he narrows things down if you tell him what sort of night you are having. He is behind the counter, and he is used to being asked.
Small rewards for taking part. Badges come from the things you do, like renting, returning and reviewing. MacGuffins are objects that turn up when you bring a film back, and they are for collecting and trading rather than achieving.
Both are best discovered rather than explained, so this is all you are getting.
Not at all. You can sign up with Google and never go near it. There is a Discord server and plenty happens there, but everything you actually need is on the site.
Other members, unless you say otherwise. You can hide it in settings, which also keeps your name off public film pages.
In settings, under Linked logins. It happens straight away: your name and your logins go, and the things you earned stay behind without a name on them.