Hackney History Festival @hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social Hackney Society, Hackney Archives, Sutton House & many more host Hackney History Festival each May. Get in touch to help shape future events!
Women Over 50 Film Festival @wofff.bsky.social 🎦 Annual, hybrid short film festival est. 2015
✨ Fun, fearless, real stories told by or about women >50
Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter @jslondonldr.bsky.social Journalist covering Hackney, Islington and Camden for MyLondon. Tips to josef.steen@reachplc.com
The Rio Cinema @riocinema.bsky.social 📽️ Celebrating our 50th Birthday with #RIOFOREVER! We're The UK's longest-running cinema, Operated by and for the Hackney community since 1976.
The Hackney Society @hackney-society.bsky.social We work to preserve Hackney's unique heritage and built environment, and make the area a better place in which to live and work. Founded in 1967
Ranjit S. Ruprai @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social Curator supakino.com / Founder @the-cloud-door.bsky.social / Former Chair riocinema.org.uk
BAFTA @bafta.org Supporting and celebrating talent in the Film, Games and TV industries 🌟
Jack McInroy @jackmcinroy.bsky.social Real exclusive dude.
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vimeo.com/glosswebseries
Fatima @reaffirmsfaith.bsky.social blue skies, smilin' at me, nothing but blue skies... do I see... hijabi, quizzer, gallery tour guide, film critic, woman in STEM now humanities, purveyor of joy and fun facts
Leila Latif @leilalatif.bsky.social Professional haver of takes
Laura Venning @lauravenning.bsky.social Film critic, author, queer, Jane Campion champion, words for Sight and Sound, BFI, Curzon, Little White Lies, Empire, BBC Culture.
✉️ venninglaura@gmail.com
✍️ lauravenning.com / https://lauravenning.substack.com / https://lnk.to/GretaGerwig
Carol Morley Film @carolmorleyfilm.bsky.social Filmmaker Writer Director https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2024/oct/05/mark-kermode-on-carol-morley-typist-artist-pirate-king-the-alcohol-years-dreams-of-a-life-the-falling-out-of-blue
Olly Richards @ollyrichards.bsky.social Writer of some sort
Rowan Woods @rowan-woods.bsky.social Creative Director, Edinburgh TV Festival | Programme Adviser, Berlinale and LFF | Acquisitions, Festivals, Moderating
Hope Dickson Leach @hopedickle.bsky.social Filmmaker based in Edinburgh often found tending to my children and shouting about how hard it all is.
Watershed @wshed.bsky.social Cultural cinema, talent development and creative technology in Bristol.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Film London @filmlondon.bsky.social We connect ideas, talent and finance to develop a pioneering creative culture for London.
John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com Magic Hours - Malick
Visible Darkness - Glazer
Variety/Sight&Sound/The New World
Cinema Italia&Writers On Film podcasts
Connery A Novel
https://linktr.ee/writersonfilm
Catherine @catherinebray.bsky.social Big Hoops lobbyist. Also film producer. Write about film for the Guardian and Variety. Parent to a polite baby and ill-mannered cat.
Jake Garriock @jwgarriock.bsky.social 
Little White Lies @lwlies.com Passionate about movies since 2005.
https://linktr.ee/lwlies
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Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social Freelance journalist with a focus on film. Former Senior Writer @thetimes.com Host of the writing podcast Write-Off. Agent: Laura Macdougall at UA, Insta @francescasteelewrites Recovered from #longcovid
Ali Gray @graybot.bsky.social Formerly of The Shiznit, author of How To Be a Dad: The Selfish Man's Guide to Adequate Parenting, writer of words, eater of crisps, oval-shaped layabout, hello
Sophie Butcher @sophiefbutcher.bsky.social Northerner down south. Freelance film writer, previously at EMPIRE.
Krizanovich @krizanovich.bsky.social Sometimes a journalist. Always a researcher. 
Nick de Semlyen @nickdesemlyen.bsky.social Editor of Empire. Author of The Last Action Heroes & Wild And Crazy Guys. Devourer of Twiglets.
Mark Kermode @kermodemovie.bsky.social LAST aisle seat on the left.
Emphasis on the FIRST syllable.
London Critics' Circle @londoncritics.bsky.social The film section of the UK Critics' Circle (established in 1913), which also includes books, dance, drama, music and visual arts journalists.
https://criticscircle.org.uk/film/
Colin Grant @colincraiggrant.bsky.social Author, director of WritersMosaic
https://writersmosaic.org.uk/
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Nick James @filmnickjames.bsky.social Writer, former Editor of Sight and Sound magazine. A rock singer last century. A choir member now. 
Peter Bradshaw @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social Guardian film critic. My new Audible Original drama MERCY starring Joanna Scanlan is out now: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GGTQ9ZBY?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp
Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social Documentary person doing documentary things. Formerly of the Guardian. Lots of #lufc stuff
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Lizzie Francke @lizziefrancke.bsky.social Film Executive for many years now Head of Directing Fiction at the National Film and TV School, UK. Despite the very stormy clouds, glad to be here. ‘It's a beautiful new day? Hey’ . Let’s make waves.
D W Mault @dwmault.bsky.social Cinéaste and Filmmaker. Nietzschean Marxist, Hates himself more than you hate him.
Linda Marric Evans @lindamarric.co.uk Film Critic and Honorary Secretary of London Critics’ Circle. Bylines: The Sun, HeyUGuys. Formerly at The Daily Mirror, the JC, Total Film, Yahoo & NME and many more.
Cinema For All @cinemaforall.bsky.social The national organisation for the support and development of volunteer-led cinema in the UK.
Rógan @ifursure.bsky.social writer-programmer-gossip
Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com Filmmaker. Documentary. Art. GLIMMERAMA
Quiet girl in a loud dress. 👩🏻🦰🔥
All Rivers Spill🦞🦀Your Fat Friend🔮Seahorse🫃🏼Game of Thrones: The Last Watch 🐺Orion: The Man Who Would Be King⚡️The Great Hip Hop Hoax🎧Sound It Out 🪩& more
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Wayne D'Cruz @waynedcruz.bsky.social Releasing independent film in UK/Éire at MetFilm.
📍 London
90 Min Film Fest @90minfilmfest.bsky.social A podcast all about movies under 90 minutes long
Support the show by leaving a tip: https://ko-fi.com/90minfilmfest
Dr Deborah Allison @deborahuk.bsky.social Cinema programmer and film writer. Latest books: ‘Film Title Sequences: A Critical Anthology’ (2021) | ‘The Films of Aleksandr Rou: Father of Soviet Fairy-Tale Cinema’ (2025)
Latoya @franglais27.bsky.social Writer: Travel| Film| #ReclaimtheFrame| 🍅 approved
Member of: @filmindependent @wfccwomen @IFSCritics @icsfilm @FilmCriticsuk @theoaffc #OFTA
Email: franglais27@franglais27tales.com
Website: www.franglais27tales.com
Line Langebek @linelangebek.bsky.social Writer, Swimmer, Viking-in-hiding, sometimes Danish. She/her.
#TheGirlWiththeNeedle, a MUBI release, in theatres and online now.
Rep: Casarotto Ramsay & Associates
New here.
Paul Martinovic @paulmartinovic.bsky.social Head of Content at Radiance Films/Transmission. Old Movies! Formerly BFI, Picador, Penguin Books. Bylines in Den of Geek, Little White Lies, Digital Spy. Movies are Dead screenings @ Prince Charles Cinema. Lots of stuff really. Picaresque account 
Daniel Green @dangreen1986.bsky.social Film distribution, festival producer // formerly @MUBI, @Dogwoof
Simon Renshaw @sirenshaw.bsky.social 
m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social | everything's coming up milhouse |
writer, editor, researcher, concept engineer, goblin
mattlloydturner.com + http://nonlinearities.substack.com
Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social Film critic. Author of DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS (Jan ‘25). My writing about film has appeared in the NYT, Art in America, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and elsewhere. NYFCC member
https://linktr.ee/violetvlucca
Wendy Ide @wendyide.bsky.social Film critic for The Observer, Screen International. Usually can be found at a film festival. Parent. Brummie-born S E Londoner.
Ashley Clark @ashcclark.bsky.social Don't look at the carpet, I drew something awful on it
https://linktr.ee/_Ash_Clark
Manuela Lazić @manilazic.bsky.social writer actor filmmaker french
https://linktr.ee/manilazic
Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com A reader-supported online film journal, offering a different lens on movies.
issues/essays: brightwalldarkroom.com
podcast: @bwdrpod.bsky.social
all the things: https://linktr.ee/brightwalldarkroom
Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk digital editor @ Little White Lies. extremely online and incredibly anxious.
author of books on sofia coppola + wes anderson, MODERN PROMETHEUS: THE FILMS OF YORGOS LANTHIMOS out Nov 2026, Jackass book Oct 2027!
https://linktr.ee/hannahstrong
Isabel Stevens @isstevens.bsky.social Managing editor Sight and Sound | commissions features and Opening Scenes front section | author of the Natural History column 📖 🖋 🎞 🐈 | Opinions all mine
Caitlin Quinlan @caitlinquinlan.bsky.social london / @mubi editions
www.caitlinquinlan.work
Elena Lazic @elazic.bsky.social Founder and editor of @animusmagazine.bsky.social | Production Manager @filmsradiance.bsky.social | Film writer, journalist, copy editor and translator | French | In London, UK
Claire Vaughan @pixieglas.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📽️ 'A puffed-up orb of a woman with a gaping mouth'.
Enthusiast. She / her / hi.
Shift Cardiff // Reframed Film // Chapter Cinema Cardiff.
Views personal are mine alone. No SWERFs or TERFs or Tories os gwelwch yn dda.
Jonathan Wakeham @jonathanwakeham.bsky.social Screenwriter at Independent Talent (UK) & Lit Entertainment (US). Mentor at Arts Emergency. Coming soon: polar scientists, Hollywood noir. WGGB.
Cslmn @rapsacnomlas.bsky.social Writer, beauty queen, haver of takes. "A tiny man" - John Cleese
Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social Aw, crap.
Kobi Omenaka @kobestarr.bsky.social Mylo’s Dad | Dad Jokes | Pop Culture | Podcasting | Growth Marketing | SEO | Guitar | Photography
@StrippedMedia
@TheWireStripped
@FlixwatcherPod
(He/Him)
Girls on Tops @girlsontopstees.bsky.social We produce bold, simple shirts that share the names of iconic women in cinema. Email us at hello@girlsontopstees.com // Shop at https://girlsontopstees.com/- S Screen Daily | Film News, Film Reviews, Film Festivals and Awar… @screendaily.com.web.brid.gy The online home of Screen International, posting breaking film news, the latest film reviews and reports from film festivals and film awards around the world.
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://screendaily.com/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/screendaily.com
Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social Novelist and Critic. https://johnnyalucard.com/
Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social Chief film critic, Variety. Beneath this glassy surface, a world of gliding monsters.
Michael Leader @michaeljleader.bsky.social Films, etc. | Critic, curator | Podcasts, books + screenings as Ghibliotheque
Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social Guardian staffer; author of Capital Celluloid daily blog guide to London repertory film scene (http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/?m=1); book, vinyl and DVD/Blu hoarder and proud of it.
Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
Simon Abrams @simonsaybrams.bsky.social Film Critic at Roger Ebert dot com, New York Times, New Yorker, Hollywood Reporter, Village Voice, The Wrap, Vanity Fair, and so on. Author of THE NORTHMAN: A CALL TO THE GODS (Insight Editions). Alt weekly kid. Let the monkey drive.
Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social Filmmaker/writer. The Story of Film/Dear Orson Welles/A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Women Make Film/I am Belfast/My Name is Alfred Hitchcock/The Story of Looking/Atomic/Stockholm My Love/Life May Be/
Best info about me: https://markcousins.cargo.site/
Prano Bailey-Bond @pranobaileybond.bsky.social Filmmaker 
Diane Abbott MP @hackneyabbott.bsky.social Re-elected as Labour MP for Hackney North & Stoke Newington. Mother of the House.
Helen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.social Film journalist, author, podcaster, broadcaster, etc. Empire's Editor-at-Large. If you would like to give me work, have a look at helenohara.com
Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social Writing about women and surrealism and cinema. Cat worshipper. Small Brummie. Tired.
https://linktr.ee/SabinaStent
Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social film critic @ Independent // TV critic @ Flicks UK // co-host Fade to Black podcast // she/her
Robbie Collin @robbiecollin.bsky.social Telegraph (UK) film critic and amateur menswear enjoyer
Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social Author, critic, historian | 🖋 Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | 📕 The Curse of Queen Kelly | 📕 The Red Shoes | 📕 Pandora’s Box | ✉️ Weekly Film Bulletin | 💻 silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
John Nugent @thenuge.bsky.social Reviews editor at Empire magazine (@empiremagazine.bsky.social)
thenuge.co.uk
Lillian Crawford @lillcrawf.co.uk Writer and curator • Stims Collective • PhD on Screen Two • Listen to Lillian • The Mind of the Doctor: Across the Neurodiverse Universe of Doctor Who • www.lillcrawf.co.uk • listentolillian.substack.com • lilliancrawford13s@gmail.com
Kelechi Ehenulo @kehenulo.bsky.social Freelance Film Critic
RT-Approved 🍅
Creator: @geekminduk.bsky.social
Bylines: Empire Magazine, GamesRadar+, Movie Marker, Digital Spy + More
Member: LFCC, OAFFC, IFSCA, BIFA, BFCC & UK Film Critics Association
🔗 https://muckrack.com/kelechi-ehenulo
Matthew Turner @filmfan1971.bsky.social Film critic, podcaster @FatalAttractPod.bsky.social, compiler/co-author of What To Watch When, creator of #PreCodeApril. Hasn't missed an episode of EastEnders since 1998.
Katie Smith-Wong @katiesmithwong.bsky.social British-born Chinese film critic. 👨👩👧👦 OAFFC, Rotten Tomatoes, London Film Critics Circle, OFCS, IFCS, Cherry Picks
Website: muckrack.com/katie-smith-wong
Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope.
The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
ProjectedFigures.com
Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social Gentleman Sleuth
Mike Muncer @mikemuncer.bsky.social Producer, editor, journalist. Host & creator of The Evolution of Horror podcast.
✉️ mike@evolutionofhorror.com
🔗 mikemuncer.com
Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social ~old hollywood, crime films, boxing, italian cinema, glamour & beauty ~
Sky Arts talking head. Empire Mag contrib editor. Writing: i Newspaper, the Atlantic, Criterion, BBC, Rolling Stone.
'SOFIA COPPOLA: AN UNOFFICIAL GUIDE'Greenfinch/Quercus 2025.
Afrofilmviewer @afrofilmviewer.bsky.social Film Enthusiast/Writer, Podcaster and Photographer.
https://linktr.ee/afrofilmviewer 
Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com Associate Editor at RogerEbert • Contributor: The New York Times • Screen Daily • Reverse Shot • Letterboxd • https://www.robertdaniels.me/
Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews.com Big on cats and movies. Film writer and programmer often seen on Variety, Little White Lies, The Playlist, Letterboxd and more. Views mine, for better or for worse.
📧 For work: rafiews@gmail.com
👋 Also @rafiews everywhere else.
www.rafiews.com
David Jenkins @daveyjenkins.bsky.social LWLies editor. david at tcolondon dot com
Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social Features Editor at Empire magazine.
BSME Best Feature Writer 2023 and 2026. Shortlisted for PPA Best Writer 2025.
Previously: words for Guardian / GQ / Esquire / Telegraph / Sunday Times Culture / Wired
https://linktr.ee/MrGodfrey
kambole campbell @kambole.bsky.social writer @ Vulture, Cartoon Brew, Animation Magazine, Empire, Little White Lies, i-D, Variety, IndieWire, others.
1/3 of the animation newsletter re:frame: http://reframenewsletter.online/
contact: kambole@outlook.com
coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kambole/
Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social The latest film news, reviews and interviews from Empire, the world's most trusted movie destination.
https://www.empireonline.com
Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com The Best Movie House on Leicester Place.
Please contact us here if you have any questions: boxofficemanager@princecharlescinema.com
https://princecharlescinema.com
Ellen E Jones @ellenejones.bsky.social Journalist and broadcaster (Guardian, Observer, Empire, Esquire, Elle etc) Author of 'SCREEN DEEP: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world'(Faber, 2024, linktr.ee/Screen_Deep); Co-host of SCREENSHOT on BBC Radio 4 and wherever you get your pods