Previously we ed viewing films by release year, genre and Netflix availability in somewhat of an ad-hoc manner, which often meant these filters weren’t offered together. We’ve remodelled the main Films section so that these filters (and more) can be applied together to narrow down your selections, and we’ve added more ways to sort the results.

Instead of a Popular Films section, popularity is now just one of several ways to sort films. All visitors can filter the main Films section by decade, year or genre, and/or view only unreleased films based on US release date (or all films in our database at once, also not previously possible). Pro can additionally throw Netflix availability into the mix. New sorting options (in addition to popularity) include by name and by release date. By combining a popularity search with the unreleased films filter, you can see the community’s most anticipated films.

You may also have noticed we changed the “Hide films I’ve watched” control to match how the others work; this will enable us to add more options here in future, rather than it being a binary setting.

In your Diary and Watchlist, we now offer more sorting options as well: you can sort by activity date, earliest/latest release date, your highest/lowest rating, film name, popularity or running time (as appropriate in each area).

Elsewhere, we’ve made other small changes and improvements:

• The Settings section has had an overhaul, and we’ve added the capability to manually refresh your Twitter avatar if you’ve connected to that service.
• We added a shortcut in the poster menu to see what lists each film is included in.
• All site notifications can be dismissed manually.
• We’ve tightened up on which element attributes are permitted in HTML content (now it’s just href).
• We fixed a bug where rewatched films weren’t removed from your Watchlist.
• We fixed a bug where making a list private then public would cause it to re-appear as a recently published list.