The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social Writer / director / coverer of waterfronts
MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social 60s & 70s films + affiliates. Also Influences, origins, legacies, social-cultural context.
Books incl Hollywood's Last Golden Age; Novel: Urban Flight
70s Movie Podcast [NB: Antifascist]
Much more here: https://midcenturycinema.org/
Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Business, feminism, reproductive rights and lots besides. As seen in: Observer, BBC, Prospect, New Statesman, The Persistent.
Substack: https://bigfatnegative.substack.com/
📍 Coastal Kent
James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social Saved Peter Bogdanovich's SQUIRRELS TO THE NUTS. Work featured in NY Times, Sight & Sound, New Yorker, LA Times TrembleSighWonder.com my site. Edited & wrote foreword for De Palma, De Souza, Jim McBride, Larry Cohen, Alex Cox, Lizzie Borden. PB book soon
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)
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
Darrell Clem @darrellclem.bsky.social Retired journalist / film lover (TCM) / music addict / road trips / foodie / progressive / college hoops (Kentucky) / Detroit sports / in search of the perfect burger /🏳️🌈
Metro Detroit
Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social Living on Sydney Greenstreet
Haunted by Ida Lupino
Immigrant
Trap drummer
Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com B3ta.com, @fesshole.bsky.social, @anonopin.bsky.social
Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social Comedy writer & actor. Doctor Who, Tracey Ullman’s Show, Beyond a Steel Sky, Justin’s House, Bravest Warriors, Horrible Histories
linktr.ee/gemmaarrowsmith
Richard Luck @rmgluck2017.bsky.social Writer/editor. Substack: As Luck Would Have It (https://richardluck.substack.com/publish/home)
Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social I write novels.
https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-crowd-pleaser-9781784634148?srsltid=AfmBOorCYZJ6lmoKe-phK0MiJM31iJceQf9neNV_Wc8uXeFHiVbQj0tB
Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social Editor at large
https://bookeditor.co.uk
Jack London @jacklondonexile.bsky.social I coulda been a contender...
Fiona Watson @monsterfromid66.bsky.social Screenwriter, Video Essay Maker, Film Scholar (Am I a Scholar? I don't feel like one. Shouldn't I have a quill or something?). Owner of a licensed ADHD brain but I didn't get a manual. COULD SOMEONE SEND ME THE MANUAL PLEASE?
Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social Video editor. Nebraskan/East Anglian, so possibly inclined towards flat lands. Once talked about cinema on the radio, but now mainly take photos with prisms and pinholes and polaroids. Being kept for my decorative seed head.
A stones throw from Cambridge.
Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social Author of horror, crime, & sci-fi. Professor of History. Great Pyrenees obsessed. Italian movie completist. Anti-A.I.
My books: https://linktr.ee/CoyHallBooks
Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social Writer, researcher, editor, failed model. N17. Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene out now: https://tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pendas-fen-scene-by-scene
Boovacado Ghost @bavacadotoast.bsky.social Fueled by coffee and horror movies.
Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social Classics and discoveries from around the world, thematically programmed with special features, on a streaming service brought to you by Criterion.
Fan account ready to be claimed by Criterion.
Trish @trishisreading.bsky.social Keen reader. Cat lady. Curious.
Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social Irish writer. Leonard and Hungry Paul, Panenka, Ghost Mountain. Richard Heart Julianne out in summer 2027
www.ronanhession.com
Music as Mumblin' Deaf Ro https://mumblindeafro.bandcamp.com/
Rena MJ 🕸️🕯️ @renamj.bsky.social Mostly film and music and animals
https://letterboxd.com/planet_queen
C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social Sub-editor of Lær!, the Norwegian leather industry's most esteemed organ. Immerse your soul in love.
Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Extremely humble legend. Writer of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI, RARE SINGLES, CUDDY, THE OFFING, THE GALLOWS POLE (BBC/Shane Meadows), THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE etc. Books: https://bio.site/benjaminmyers
Paul Wilson @bibliopaul.bsky.social Co-host of The Mookse And The Gripes podcast with @mookse | 2023 @USRofC judge | Slowly and happily burying myself in books
John Self @john-self.bsky.social Book jockey
Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social UK-based film critic and culture journalist. Bylines: BFI, Sight and Sound, IndieWire, Little White Lies and others. Member of the London Critics' Circle.
linktr.ee/jslaterwilliams
Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social Technology / Creativity / Experience - Lecturer and Researcher - Cambridge and London, UK
Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social Daydreamer. Writer. Producer. Editor. Magpie. ADHD & Autistic. Producer of discs at Arrow Video. Friend to some, oddball to others.
Larry Karaszewski @larrythek.bsky.social Film maker/lover
https://boxd.it/jDAr
Katemonkey (In Most Places) @katemonkey.com Transplanted Southern Californian in the land of medieval hoodlums.
Likes bad pop culture and the Internet.
Yep.
She/Her/They/Them.
Find me at https://www.katebolin.com
Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social Huge pupils, tiny value
webcurios.co.uk
Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com Caustically optimistic. Potty mouth. FILM NERD 2.0. Netflix's VOIR. MASTERS OF HORROR. '80s ALL OVER. FEAR ITSELF. I helped break the Internet. Sorry about that. Keto for life. Visit drewmcweeny.com for all my shit.
The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social Enthusiast of British (mainly) ghostlore, folklore and vintage ghost and weird fiction. Collector of old magazines. Also keen on prehistoric monuments, old churches and suchlike. Am decidedly Q. All scans/photos my own (unless stated). Runs #SpookySunday
Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social Love cinema, literature, music and art. Write occasionally about cinema. Married with two kids. Originally from Greater Manchester/Cheshire. Now based in Northern Ireland. Teacher of History and Politics. Degree, PGCE and MA Ed from University of Durham.
Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social Goat Gland Specialist. George Brent Detractor. Crate Digger. Retired Cigarette Lender.
Also on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/75eTt
Dan @thebiffboff.bsky.social Give it a whizz and mugs there is
Jemaine Clement @jemaineclement.bsky.social 
Peter Tedone @ptfilm.bsky.social Movie obsessed. Reader. Film Print collector. Photographer. https://petertedonephotos.etsy.com
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social PhD researcher: identity and development in University Service Unit cadets. A bounder, cad, rakehell and villain. Edinburgh.
Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
Wandering. Wondering. Freelance SFFH editor. Commissioning for The Broken Binding. Living in Edinburgh. Views my own and independent of my employers. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.
Jamie Muir @jamiembrixton.bsky.social The world viewed from Brockwell Park in South London.
Libby @captainlibatron.bsky.social Ex parliament now runs a bar by the sea
Instagram same handle
Lesbian of the parish of Whitstable
Weird little guy
Quite deaf
She/her
Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social Novelist, screenwriter, showrunner, playwright
Sunday Times Bestseller, Death at the White Hart, OUT NOW
The Parkwood Murders: pre-order now for 16 July
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials now on Netflix
Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social books, beauty, history, folklore. fan of Dickens & @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, https://linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
Tony Hancock @tonyhancock.bsky.social Official account of The Tony Hancock Appreciation Society. Join us at tonyhancock.org.uk. Known on that other place as @east_cheam_lad. Politics free zone
PODCAST - Very Nearly An Armful
Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social Dad. Science Teacher. Author of books including “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?”, "Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder" and “How to Find a Rainbow”. Lots of free stuff and more about me at alomshaha.com
Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social Always looking for the heat around the corner
Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Writer. 
Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social Washed-up translator
Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social Sports journalist
Prano Bailey-Bond @pranobaileybond.bsky.social Filmmaker 
Mark (out of Sour Jazz) @sourjazz.bsky.social Chocolate (dark), Tea (black), Film (noir).
Proud MD ANT. www.sourjazz.com
Jon W. @rarefilmm.bsky.social Man on a mission to find and preserve the rarest and most obscure films ever made. Posts mostly film & TV related content.
Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social Another writer you've never heard of / books with Confingo and Dead Ink / runs Levenshulme Old Library
https://richardvhirst.co.uk/
Simon @broomwagon.bsky.social Dad, dog owner, cycling, football, and coffee nerd.
Increasingly interested in Belgian beer and cobbles.
My motto: always give 100%. Unless you are giving blood.
You’ll probably find me on my allotment.
Bristol
Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social 🌈 🏳️⚧️ He/him. Film/TV writer-researcher for hire. Black Archives books, Age of Thrills, Fantastic Fifties and Sensational Sixties magazines, booklets for Indicator & Arrow Films.
Writing: https://medium.com/cathode-ray-tube Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/6V3z
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor.
Free newsletter at mariepphillips.substack.com
John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social Journalist since '73, now retired, film geek for longer. Rejoiner, lefty, love films of all eras. Recovering Man Utd. fan of six decades. Uses admiration of John Ford as a Rorschach test. No followers without a profile - sorry!
Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social Leeds. Project Manager. Band member. Ex-zine author. 📚 and records. Punk. Cinema. Old stones. Medieval churches. The Long Sixties. Modernism. Weird fiction. Noir…JG Ballard. Otto Dix. Sandy Denny. Harold Pinter…You get the idea
Claire @thechesilbeach.bsky.social Love visiting Chesil Beach and reading books. In fact, I’ve probably got my head in a book while you’re reading this.
⬆️And yes, this is my Backlisted bookshelf. ⬆️
Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
Fritters @fritters.bsky.social Black jawed living room couch professor.
MDANT 
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
@swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social 
John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk Podcaster.
I do Smersh Pod https://bsky.app/profile/smershpod.com
I co-do A Wheezing Groaning Sound.
1/3 Snake Boy
Author of Thunderbook, Explodobook and Superbook.
https://linktr.ee/itsjohnrain
www.patreon.com/SmershPod
shows.acast.com/smershpod
Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social Artist & writer. History & art buff. Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Guardian. Observer. Louder than War. WORM, Rotterdam. Leiden. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. 3rd book out March ‘27 https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
Videodrome @videodrome.bsky.social Atlanta's Video Rental Store.
617 N Highland Ave NE
Atlanta, Ga. 30306
(404) 277-5827
videodromeatl.com
E O Higgins @eohiggins.bsky.social 
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com Artist, designer, occasional writer.
• Words: https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/
• Pictures: https://www.johncoulthart.com/
• Linktree: https://linktr.ee/johncoulthart
No DMs. Contact me here: https://www.johncoulthart.com/contact.html
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️🌈 she/they. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.
Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social Co-Owner of Night Worms. Bram Stoker Award winner of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered. New book: 2025
https://linktr.ee/sadiehartmann
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Darren Maggs @darrenmaggs.bsky.social Bearded. Music, books, QPR, cats, a boxy vehicle and a Shetland jumper.
Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social Norwich-based film and media prof. Books on A Taste of Honey, 1960s, stardom, David Lean, Ealing, J. Lee Thompson, etc. Currently working on ace director Muriel Box. Opinions very much my own.
Cerys Matthews @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Food.Action.Music.Books. Happy on the end of a rope.
Programme BBC radio shows -write books, make music and get out and about.
Duncan Wellaway @duncanwellaway.bsky.social I don’t have a podcast
Represented by United Agents, Soho.
#COYG ❤️🤍
Irish / Scottish
💚🤍🧡💙🤍
https://youtube.com/@duncwellaway?si=t3F5DoWF5lbcpRGk
Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social One of the Daily Telegraph 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century (49th). Also an author. And producer. And a whole life away from work if you can imagine.
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag
Matt Tucker @matt-tucker.bsky.social Writer. #amquerying my debut novel - The Fine Art of Shadows - a twisty supernatural mystery set in the aftermath of the First World War, with photography, séances and spirits.
#WritingCommunity. Beta readers welcome 📖 
Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social PhD in Victorian lit. Editor/researcher/lecturer. Women’s ghost stories & the supernatural. Lots of posts about books. And ghosts. And Margery Lawrence.
Violet Hunt’s The Tiger Skin and Other Tales of the Uneasy out now with The British Library.
Cinema Cities @cities1978.bsky.social I create YouTube videos about classic movies and write about them on Substack to prove to my mother that I wasn’t wasting my time “in front of that darn television watching all those old movies.”
https://www.youtube.com/c/CinemaCities1978
Katie Christine Bishop @katiecbishop.bsky.social Novelist SFF/Noir, film nerd, cat wrangler
Author of LOVE & MURDER (Black Heron Press)
Winner of the 2025 Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction
“Uplifting, engrossing...a top recommendation." —Midwest Book Review
L0GANB0XD @l0ganb0xd.bsky.social active letterboxr • square • cromulent cinephile • general film pest • advanced time waster • cat fan
Letterboxd.com/L0GANB0XD
Jo Coyne @jopolkadot.bsky.social Miscellaneous Inspiration #cinema #photography #art #books #music
Galway Ireland
Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social I don’t want to alarm you, but something very sinister is going on here…
teacher / giallo enthusiast / general reprobate
WorldCinemania @worldcinema.bsky.social 🎬 Films will save us all.........
GIFs, stills and videos of essential film.
[Migrated from the other place]
#FilmSky
James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social Teaching/lecturing in France. Occasional academic.
Cinema, books, music, vintage television, podcasts (usually while cooking for the family), teaching, life in France etc.
Film reviews at: letterboxd.com/jamesewand/
Sadie Hennessy @memphishennessy.bsky.social A.K.A The Mature Lady Artist
Eddie Muller @eddiemuller.bsky.social Writer. Film Historian. Bartender.
James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile