Similar to the work on the Lilypad Library (my book reviews), I’ve upgraded my movie reviews, too. First and foremost, I’ve changed the name to Lilypad Cinema. Notice the theme? Yes, I’m leaning fully into the frog motif.

Second, I’ve upgraded my featured image. Previously, I used the couch potato-style image below, with the man slouching in front of a TV, or an image of a film projector.

But the ’90s called and it wanted its clipart back. So, here we are, my new froggified movie reviewer:

If I want something a little different for movies, there’s always my new projector image:

And, finally, I worked through a series of options for potential movie review “card” formats. I originally wanted to figure out a way to put the entire movie review on a card that could be shared on social media. But it doesn’t take long before the text overwhelms the card and I’m down to either dropping images of the movie poster OR reducing the text to 8-point font to get all to fit. Instead, I’ll go with some form of teaser card.

I have not written many movie reviews in recent years, mainly as I don’t GO to the movies as often as I would like (something I’m hoping to change in retirement), and partly as I didn’t like my current format. Now that I’ve solved the “social media” aspects, I feel more motivated to write some. I’m not fully ready to relaunch, but I’m hoping for at least one a week once I get going again.

Oh! And I have a new signature block too. 🙂

Until the next curtain opens…