If you have a moment today...

As a tortured teen at university, I flirted with keeping a diary for a year. Full of pointless thoughts, recollections, and hopes and opinions for the following weeks, my writings were as rambling and borderline delusional as they’ve ever been.

Ever since, the idea of a diary – secret or otherwise – has seemed painful and futile.

But an Auckland-based company has changed my perception and made them fun and social, as well as tapping

into my love of film. Letterboxd was founded in October 2011 by Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow, and is billed as a social networking service for films, allowing people to review and rate films – be they directors or general punters.

Occasionally, people use the reviews section to toss out pithy one-liners and seek approval, but at a wider level, it’s used by other directors to review films and is a fascinating insight into the dichotomy of films and film-makers.