Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social writer. critic. essayist. on staff at New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://angelicabastien.com/
https://angelicabastien.substack.com
Patrick Bromley @patrickbromley.bsky.social Editor in Chief at @fthismovie, co-author of In Search of Darkness, contributed at Bloody Disgusting and Daily Dead. CFCA/OFCS.
🍅 approved
Erik Childress @erikthemovieman.bsky.social Producer - Chicago Critics Film Festival, Chicago Film Critics Association, Movie Madness Podcast, The Friendship Dilemma Podcast, Business First AM, Rotten Tomatoes, The Nick D Podcast linktr.ee/erikchildress
Matt Cipolla @cipollamatt.bsky.social Was a film critic for seven-ish years (Bright Wall/Dark Room, The Spool, Ebert Voices, The Film Stage, so on). Now I guess I’m just critical. Tail-end millennial trash. Music, motorcycles, etc.
#MeToo
Mostly on Instagram @Cipolla.Matt
cipollam926@gmail
Dede Crimmins @dedecrim.bsky.social Film critic. Horror Fan. Spinster. Smithie.
Rue Morgue, That Shelf, CFCA
she/her
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/deirdre-crimmins/movies
A.A. Dowd @aadowd.bsky.social Writer/editor. Past lives: The A.V. Club, Chron, Time Out Chicago. He/him/his. https://letterboxd.com/AADowd/
https://authory.com/AADowd
Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social Writer, Curator, Cultural Omnivore | 1/3 of http://reframenewsletter.online/ | Author of Amnesia: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk // I mostly retweet games + art. Opinions are my own. He/Him | PFP: Kara Xu (Helium Raven) Header: Dima Goryainov
Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social Critic, editor, darling | RogerEbert, The Playlist, Paste Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, Inverse, Chron, Letterboxd Journal, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe | CFCA
Also on Letterboxd and Twitter: @isaacfeldberg
danielgorman20 @danielgorman20.bsky.social frequent bylines at www.inreviewonline.com
member CFCA
https://letterboxd.com/danimal1/
Jim Laczkowski @jimlaczkowski.net Hat-Wearing Librarian (chipublib.org). Pop Culture Writer/CFCA Member (jimlaczkowski.net), (https://directorsclub.substack.com), (https://linktr.ee/jimlaczkowski). Musician! Cats, coffee, books, podcasts, libraries!
LarsenOnFilm @larsenonfilm.bsky.social Josh Larsen. Talker at Filmspotting. Writer at LarsenOnFilm. Author of Movies Are Prayers and Fear Not! A Christian Appreciation of Horror Movies.
Zachary Lee @zacharylee.bsky.social editor, critic, journalist | bylines in rogerebert.com, The Chicago Reader, Block Club Chicago, RNS, Dread Central, Sojourners, Think Christian | CFCA Member
Sarah Marrs @cinesnark.bsky.social Deputy Editor of LaineyGossip.com | Member: Critics Choice Association, Chicago Film Critics Association, Online Film Critics Society | All writing: https://bit.ly/3G2qegq | Email: sarah@laineygossip.com
Alejandro A. Riera @alejandroariera.bsky.social Writer, editor, critic, movie lover, Doctor Who fan, proud to be a boricua, a cubano and a gallego. Curmudgeon extraordinaire. You can find my writing at alejandroariera.substack.com, cinelandiausa.com, the Chicago Reader, and thirdcoastreview.com.
Tasha Robinson @tasharobinson.bsky.social Freelance editor/writer. Former editor at Polygon, Verge, The Dissolve, A.V. Club. Next Picture Show podcaster. My wheelhouse is full of weird stuff. She/her.
Letterboxd.com/tasharobinson
Goodreads.com/user/show/10244904-tasha-robinson
Nextpictureshow.net
Katie Rife @rifewithkatie.bsky.social You’ve seen me around. Writing all over: Letterboxd, Indiewire, AV Club, Vulture, Ebert, etc.
Caroline Siede @carolinesiede.bsky.social Film & TV critic. Writing at The A.V. Club, The Daily Beast, and Girl Culture. CFCA member. Expert grocery shopper. She/her http://girlculture.substack.com
Peter “Cloaked In Gucci & Scandal” Sobczynski @petersob13.bsky.social Film critic at RogerEbert.com, TheSpool.com, Auteurist Class at Substack and the Movie Madness podcast. An enthusiast of De Palma, T Swift and Milla J. Programmer at the Chicago Critics Film Festival. A rogue and a bon vivant.
Collin Souter @collinsouter.bsky.social Film critic, CFCA member, teacher, co-host of the Christmas Movies Actually podcast, U2 fan, blu-ray collector.
https://www.collinsouter.com/
https://letterboxd.com/cdsouter/
Brian Tallerico @briantallerico.bsky.social CFCA President - Editor http://RogerEbert.com - Bylines at Vulture, AV Club, NYT, GQ, Arrow, The Playlist, Rolling Stone, LA Times, elsewhere - Producer CCFF - Father of 3 Boys - Not Vince Gilligan
Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com Tenderhearted sicko. CFCA member. I write about movies, feminism, theology, and sad men in space for Bright Wall/Dark Room and Seeing & Believing. The second edition of my book Becoming Alien is available now.
dodgyboffin.com
Lee Cronin's Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social Writer/Critic/Meat Popsicle -- assistant editor @ RogerEbert.com, editor in chief The Spool. Words: Block Club Chicago, Consequence.
Cody @codymonster91.bsky.social movie stuff probably | gay stuff definitely | 18+ mostly | he/him | livin in Chicago (The Big Apple) | CFCA member | writer/podcaster for Next Best Picture, AwardsWatch, and YOUR site!
Rob @flickmythrob.bsky.social Flickering Myth chief film critic, CFCA/CCA/OFCS member, Rotten Tomatoes-approved, lifelong gamer, miserable Chicago sports fan (White Sox and Bears), WWE/AEW fan He/Him ♿
https://www.flickeringmyth.com/author/robert-kojder/
Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social Film Editor at @avclub.com
Video Game Movie Expert
Southerner in Chicago
@robledonne.bsky.social @robledonne.bsky.social www.robledonne.com
Sophie Delaney @sophiewalterd.bsky.social Writer/Performer/Co-host of Chompin’ Podcast, she/her 🏳️⚧️
Rob Grabowski @robgrabo.bsky.social Overweight Sensation / “mayor” of Chicago
Ben Mekler @benmekler.bsky.social Writer (Ticket to Ride), Director (Demi Adejuyigbe is Going to Do One (1) Backflip), Producer (It Ends), Inventor (Lysol)
Mike Lloyd @likemoyd.bsky.social likemoyd.com
Jimmy @jimmyb.bsky.social Product design & user researcher | Baseball scorekeeping | Lincoln Square Taz Car enthusiast | ✋🙂🤚 I'm joking | he/him
Little Boys Room @lbrcomic.bsky.social Classic Little Boys Room Comics (circa 2013-2016) by Richard Scooperman (Missing, presumed dead). Collected & posted by family friend & longtime neighbor Dave Tomlinson (USMC vet, Bobcat Co. Engineer, retired, proud grandfather of 4!)
Josh Segovia @trutexican.bsky.social TX -> MD -> Chicago
joe kwaczala @joekwa.bsky.social i wrote and star in a new film called AMERICAN COMIC premiering june 29 in los angeles
Jessica Johnson @historyofjess.com Writer, neurodivergent, bisexual, dog mom, feminist, geek, full of anxiety, wife in a straight-passing but real queer marriage. 🏳️🌈
Trying to fight the good fight over here, but occasionally I have a dog stuck in my lap.
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social Honorary Ziegfeld Girl
Honorary IATSE Local 1
banner 📸Christopher Calkins
portrait 📸Tom Bloom
John Esnrch @johnhotdog.bsky.social 
Jim is still celebrating Christmas @bardinbrief.bsky.social I cosplayed as Ryoga once and I've been playing Christmas music on repeat since Halloween. AniTwit/buttposting refugee. He/him. Occasionally NSFW. 🔞
Tim Barnes @timbarnes.bsky.social writer/producer: Comedy Central, The Tonight Show, Nickelodeon. LATEST PROJECT → @judgetravis.bsky.social
Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social Film/TV writer. Co-host: The Next Picture Show podcast. Author of The Reveal newsletter (thereveal.film) with Keith Phipps. I got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome.
Keith Phipps @kphipps3000.bsky.social Movies, etc. for GQ, Vulture, Ringer and more. Co-host Next Picture Show. With @scotttobias.bsky.social I write The Reveal: http://thereveal.film. Author of AGE OF CAGE. He/Him
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
onion person @junlper.beer my name is june - she/her - evil transsexual disinfo influencer
i am a host on the kill the computer podcast and the ill conceived podcast:
- killthecomputer.com
- illconceivedpodcast.com
social media at @theonion.com
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social ✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 maryag7@gmail.com | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | Programmer, Must-Watch Indies @ FACETS Chicago | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com Associate Editor at RogerEbert • Contributor: The New York Times • Screen Daily • Reverse Shot • Letterboxd • https://www.robertdaniels.me/
Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social All this talk about food, I’m getting hungry, girls. Writer (Vanity Fair, The Daily Beast, Vulture, elsewhere). This Had Oscar Buzz cohost. Etc. He/him.
Joe Reid @joereid.bsky.social Awards / Cinematrix / Movies / TV at Vulture
This Had Oscar Buzz podcast
Demi, Myself & I on Patreon
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social Husband to nine
father to a beautiful Christian marine
son to a wife
father (all that matters)
marine to a beautiful son
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social Chicago Reader music writer
imleor.carrd.co
Ed Solomon @edsolomon.bsky.social Writer/co-writer: The Christophers (2026 - now), The Spot (early 2027), Full Circle, No Sudden Move, Men in Black, the 3 Bill&Ted movies, Mosaic, Now You See Me 1&2, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, Laverne&Shirley. Fiction: Vanity Fair, The New Yorker
Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social Artist, Jerry Orbach Car owner, Sears shopper. store.brandonbird.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Robyn the Velocirobter @velocirobter.bsky.social Overeducated and undersmart
Cat parent, slow runner, amateur tubist
Transplant in Chicago
they/them
🏳️🌈⚧️🎮⛱️🐋💅😸
grayson @graysond.bsky.social NYC
streamer on twitch.tv/ps_garak
read this blog!! imightaswellexplainthejoke.com
Zack Mast @zackmast.bsky.social 
Sophie Bee @pogform.bsky.social My heart is ablaze!
Linus Lee @linuslee.bsky.social Chicago n Louisiana, n comics n music n movies n foods (he/him)
Jamison Webb @jamisonwebb.bsky.social FL to CHI to LA to CLE
Conor Sullivan @conorsullivan.bsky.social Writer, Green Day Historian.
Jennifer Wright @jenashleywright.bsky.social Author of seven pop history books. Married to @kibblesmith.com. Mom to a toddler. ‘Glitz Glam & A Damn Good Time’ Biography of Mamie Fish On Sale Now from Hachette.
Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social 📚 Author, NYT bestseller FIRED UP
🔥 Organizer, Firestarter University
🏫 Founder emerita, @momsdemand
firedupbook.com 🔥🔥🔥
Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social Daily newsletter/column, Today in Culture, free sub @ Newcity.com. Film critic. Photographer. Editor. raypride.substack.com; [my name] everywhere / weekly film column newcityfilm.com
Brianna Wellen @briwellen.bsky.social Writer, TV watcher, riot grrrl (she/her)
Joe McAdam @joemcadam.bsky.social Artist, thinker, philosopher, in a sketch comedy group called Butt.
linktr.ee/joemcadam
Daniel Knox @danielknoxmusic.bsky.social Songwriter / Composer.
Love David Lynch ▵▵ and Star Trek 🖖🏼
Stephen "Steve" Winchell @sawinchell.bsky.social Cartoonist/Musician/Chicagoan. He/him. 🇵🇸
Sean Rose the World’s Strongest @jabronisean.bsky.social Cartoonist, podcaster, certified anime & horror freak (he/him)
Read my comic Red Ring of Death here: https://www.redring-nation.com/
Also on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/RRoD_Comic
Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social For over 30 years, the Music Box Theatre has been the premiere venue in Chicago for independent, foreign and classic films.
The Frasier Files @frasierfiles.bsky.social A 14-part podcast that tells the biography of Frasier Crane using only canonical information from Cheers, Frasier and Wings. By acclaimed biographer Dr. Howard Lyon (@sawinchell.bsky.social)
Ben 🏳️🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social Goofy video game streamer: https://www.twitch.tv/ps_garak
Goofy adventure game podcaster: https://zencastr.com/Quest-Quest
Goofy comic writer: https://www.instagram.com/philcomic/
Plus Chicago gay.