Upekha Bandaranayake @upekha.bsky.social I make Blu-rays and UHDs (and DVDs too, sometimes)
Nick Bradshaw @nickkinocritic.bsky.social Film critic/journalist
Matt Page (he/him) @mattpagefilm.bsky.social Author/speaker on film. Wrote the BFI book "100 Bible Films". Also has soft spots for Italian cinema, silent movies, Pasolini, Rossellini, Straub/Huillet & HItchcock. Love a good podcast. NFP data geek by day.
Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social Writer and journalist in FT, Guardian, Slate, New York Times, Prospect etc. First novel, DEEP DOWN, came out in 2023. I also write video games with Motvind Studios.
https://authory.com/ImogenWestKnights
Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social Features journalist. Book: 'Something: The Women Who Made the Beatles' - May 2027.
https://rcwlitagency.com/clients/helen-barrett
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social Writer, curator, mentor, coach, artist. Q IS FOR GARDEN out July 2026. Imprint co-director of MAI Press, Punctum. Repped @portyliterary. Queer gardener. I do queer feminist film/art things and fight for disability justice.
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
Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social Works for the NHS. Geek. Likes history, politics, Palestine, cats, music, TV, films, ballet, wine, photography, PS5, science, astronomy, opera and books
My pinterest page - https://uk.pinterest.com/moonbootica/- M Mark Fuller @markfuller.bsky.social Remainer Ex-Bookie and film nerd. Wherever I am, would rather be in a cinema.
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
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
Prano Bailey-Bond @pranobaileybond.bsky.social Filmmaker 
Celine Haddad @celinetteh.bsky.social Right let’s give this place a go. Film Tennis Politics.
Omar Ahmed 🍉 @bressonian.bsky.social Freelance Film Scholar l Writer & International Curator of South Asian Cinema I Currently writing BFI Film Classics monograph on Mani Kaul's Uski Roti (Bloomsbury)
https://moviemahal.net/publications/
https://www.bfi.org.uk/profile/omar-ahmed
@filmlandempire.bsky.social @filmlandempire.bsky.social Hey it’s me, Blorko! Films, Cannes Film Festival, horror, independent cinema, Asian and South American films. Favourite films: Suspiria (2018), Memoria and Lisando Alonso’s entire filmography 
Mark Kermode @kermodemovie.bsky.social LAST aisle seat on the left.
Emphasis on the FIRST syllable.
David Willoughby @davidwilloughby.bsky.social Gateshead-born London-dwelling arts journalist, film reviewer for The Crack Magazine, MDANT, leftist, cyclist, reference understander, fox enthusiast, toiler at the content coalface, severyanin, liker of nice things, ‘good hair'.
Wendy Russell @archiveswendy.bsky.social Lead Archivist (Screencraft) at British Film Institute
Also working on Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible
https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk
@womensscreenwork.bsky.social
Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social Assistant features editor for The Guardian. Writer on culture high and low, tech, film, TV, architecture, arts, race, environment, etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/steverose
David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social Digital Production at BFI. Just as likely to post about other stuff. Film, architecture, art, design etc.
Lou Thomas @londonlou.bsky.social BFI Digital Production Editor | ✍🏻 Sight and Sound, Empire, Time Out, NME and more | Member of London Critics’ Circle (Film section) | Q&A host | Spurs season-ticket holder (block 422) |
Rhidian Davis @rhidiandavis.bsky.social Blue skies and new horizons. Take me there.
Liz Tray @liztray.bsky.social Sub-editor at Sight and Sound, Time Out, Vittles, 10 Magazine and The Face. Manc Jew. Bowie nerd. MCFC. 🖖
Jonathan Wroot @jlwroot.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Greenwich. Researcher of Zatoichi movies, Japanese films and horror cinema. Part-time film critic (open to writing offers). All views and opinions shared are my own.
Tim Coleman @fatscoleman.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Social Work, University of Warwick 📚
Host of @top100pod.bsky.social 🎙️
Bylines in Second Sight Films, Fangoria, the BFI, Total Film (RIP) & others 🎬
Screenwriter 🖊️
Views own 🧐
Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social Film Journalist, Video Essayist/Editor, Festival Programmer
Sight & Sound, LWLies, BFI, NFTS, LFF, RSIFF & more
https://vimeo.com/user11355665
“Seemed that he was busy doing something close to nothing but different than the day before." His dad, via Prince
Asif Kapadia @asifkapadia.bsky.social Director / Producer / Writer: 70UP, KENNY DALGLISH, 2073, AMY, SENNA, DIEGO MARADONA, Mindhunter, The Warrior, Far North, CREATURE, FEDERER: 12 Final Days, The Sheep Thief, Standard Operating Procedure + Yasiin Bey. More soon…
Leila Latif @leilalatif.bsky.social Professional haver of takes
Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social Film and media publisher for Bloomsbury books + BFI.
Andy Yan @andyyan.bsky.social Chinese (London based) Film Critic & Journalist & Cinéphile. 📧: yhs20010713@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/andyyan
Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social I write stuff (i Paper, Empire, Sight & Sound, Guardian, Line of Best Fit, Indicator Blu-ray). I like old movies, old books, old buildings and new music. Rep’d by The North Literary Agency.
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
Steph Green @steph-green.bsky.social day — working in travel content • night — writing about film at indiewire, bfi, the guardian, bbc culture, empire + elsewhere 🌙
Geoff Andrew @geoff-andrew.bsky.social Film critic, lecturer, programmer. Mainly about music, movies, art, politics. Views my own. Writes at greater length at geoffandrew.com
Mark Cosgrove @markcosgrove.bsky.social Engaging audiences in some of the finest cinematic visions and much more at Watershed, Bristol and beyond. Founder of Cinema Rediscovered, bringing great films back to the big screen since 2016. Ops my own.
Mark Carroll @markiecarroll.bsky.social Studying MA Film at Birkbeck. Was Chief Executive at Hackney Council and a Director in Whitehall and at Essex CC. Here for film, music, art, social policy and Nottingham Forest.
Paul @pauldg.bsky.social Film and music fan. Love the "Easy Rider to Raging Bull" era of film. Also has a taste for tacky psychotronica.
Shoegazer.
SE London dweller with a love of art and high weirdness.
Dave McAllister @davefilmblog.bsky.social Film enthusiast. My reviews at www.davefilmblog.com
LFFstubs @lffstubs.bsky.social Helping people find spare tickets for #lff and #bfiflare as well as various other film nonsense. Set up by @sarahluv.bsky.social
instant hologram @apalaceinthesun.bsky.social gazetteer of disappearances and deletions (he / they)
DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social your platform for thought-provoking cinema
Ewa Ferdynus @ewaferdynus.com • émigré • film poster graphic designer there & there • theatre and film photographer every now & then • somehow holds MA FSM with Film Programming & Curating • yapper about accented cinema •
www.ewaferdynus.com
& @byewfer & @ewaferdynusphoto on insta
John J Johnston @johnjjohnston.bsky.social Egyptology, Classics, reception, and cultural history.
Chair - gentlefuries.bsky.social
Ambassador - issegyptomania.bsky.social
BSFA Award finalist 2013
Agents:
Max Edwards - @AppleTreeLit
Nigel Hetherington - @Pastpreservers
London & Glasgow
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
Harry Eskin @harryeskin.bsky.social Moving-image archivist
JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social Book lover, film lover, art lover, wine lover. I write about books at JacquiWine's Journal. https://linktr.ee/jacquiwine
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.
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
Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social Writing about women and surrealism and cinema. Cat worshipper. Small Brummie. Tired.
https://linktr.ee/SabinaStent
I’m not really DBSweeney. @dbsweeney.bsky.social Technical writer ... with interests in film, music, Perth Glory, Newcastle United and ... my beautiful wife, son and dog. Freo bound.
Mark Searby @marksearby.com Film critic for BBC Radio. Author of books on Al Pacino, Rik Mayall and Eddie Murphy. Presenter of ALL ABOUT AL: THE PACINO PODCAST. Nottingham Forest supporter. 
Giulia Saccogna @giuliasfilms.bsky.social BFI Southbank: Season curator
'From Censored to Restored' + 'Chasing the Real'
Programme & Research Coordinator + MicroMacro Film. Views my own.
LostReelsUK @lostreelsuk.bsky.social Bringing forgotten, lost, or unavailable films back to UK cinemas, mostly in 35mm and 16mm. Founded and operated by Geoffrey M. Badger. Also found at lostreels.co.uk and on other social media sites at @lostreelsuk
Joshua Minsoo Kim @misterminsoo.bsky.social 
Mike McCahill @mikemccahill.bsky.social Film journalist for the Guardian, Telegraph and Little White Lies. No static at all.
Clare Bogen @clarebot.bsky.social Publicity Director, Fitzcarraldo Editions
Sometimes football, always cats.
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 
Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social 🌿 Poet & nonfiction writer. ‘Strangers: Essays on the Human & Nonhuman’ w/Makina Books. 'WITCH' w/Penned in the Margins.
(https://makinabooks.com/product/strangers/)
Lauren Elkin @laurenelkin.bsky.social Author, translator, vocal and pissed off SEND mum
Paris<>London
She/her
Cslmn @rapsacnomlas.bsky.social Writer, beauty queen, haver of takes. "A tiny man" - John Cleese
Ella Kemp @ellakemp.bsky.social Can't spell verklempt without Kemp. Editorial Lead (UK & Europe) @letterboxd.social | Photographer & broadcaster everywhere else | She/her
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
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Jennifer McShane @jennymcshane.bsky.social 📍Irish in London
✏️Writer & Editor for hire
👩🏻💻Culture, disability, books, lifestyle
🍿Always at the movies (or watching Twin Peaks)
https://linktr.ee/Jenny_McShane
Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social Once I dreamed a cake recipe that could summon a bear, and then a bear appeared in my dream
Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social Arts Writer and Commentator with words in Guardian, FT, Plaster Magazine, Independent and Dazed.
You can pre-order My Opinionated Guide to Erotic Art here: https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/an-opinionated-guide-to-erotic-art
Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social Film. TV. Archaeology. Pottery. Photography. Novels and short stories. Design. India. London. West Dorset 🌻 🍉
Linktree: https://t.co/YEqJmhdXY0
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.
Samuel Fisher @fishersam.bsky.social Writer
Publisher - Peninsula Press
Bookseller - Burley Fisher Books
Max Copeman @maxcopeman.bsky.social But we can recreate Twitter in aggregate
— Radio Times App Editor — Words on movies there and elsewhere (LWLies, 1001 Movies etc) — Londoner, film nerd, gooner.
The Raúl Ruiz Diaries (by Jaime Grijalba) @ruizdiariesjaime.bsky.social Translator of the Raúl Ruiz Diaries - ruizdiaries.substack.com
Posts on daily entries and/or other stuff that I like.
tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social 🥞 🫖 📚
sick poet / library mole
london
Dominic Lash @domlash.bsky.social writes about film & makes music
Haunting the World: Essays on Film after Perkins and Cavell
https://sunypress.edu/Books/H/Haunting-the-World
https://independent.academia.edu/DominicLash
https://dominiclash.bandcamp.com/
https://soundhunt3.wordpress.com/
Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
Alix Beeston @alixbeeston.bsky.social Writer and academic | Author of *In and Out of Sight* (Oxford UP) and coeditor of *Incomplete* (U Cali P) | Coming in 2027: *Image Encounters* (Penn State UP) and *Women, Sisters and Friends: Selected Plays and Screenplays of Kathleen Collins* (U Cali P)
jonathan mackris @feuilladist.bsky.social include me out
Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, MA Curating & Collections | Programme Curator, Chelsea Space | Chelsea College of Arts, UAL 🍩 Archives, Reproduction (artists' publishing), Feminisms, Writing 📐 Personal account 📎
linktr.ee/karendifranco
chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social content director, filmmaker magazine • chloelizotte dot com
James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social Neither Dog nor Master. Author of Zoological Surrealism. Co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays in an Adventurous Film Practice. 
Arjun Sajip @arjsaj.bsky.social Digital Editor at Apollo magazine. Formerly at Sight and Sound. Arts writer, mostly film (bylines at BBC Culture, the FT, IndieWire, ArtReview, Cineaste, Cinema Scope and others)
David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social I write the Daily column for Criterion's Current.
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
Slow Moving Pictures @lewisbeerblog.bsky.social A film blog: I spent 2025 analysing Red Desert. www.slowmovingpictures.org
Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social Chief film critic, Variety. Beneath this glassy surface, a world of gliding monsters.
ed @avantgared.bsky.social dirt blurst
A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social writer and film critic • author Algorithm of the Night, Last Week in End Times Cinema, The Earth Dies Streaming • member Natl Society of Film Critics
My books: https://shop.nplusonemag.com/collections/by-a-s-hamrah
Sam WM @samwmiell.bsky.social mainly film. https://boxd.it/40MAt.
Alex Fields @afields9.bsky.social Socialist, Appalachian, union steward, I write about formalist/experimental film and horror. they/them
Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social writer and editor // writing @ Another Gaze, FIDback, MUBI/Notebook, RE:VOIR, Sight & Sound, etc. // laurastaab.xyz
Blake Simons @blakethinks.bsky.social 🎥 interview evangelist, 2026 Daiwa Scholar
✍ romance, japan, animation, queer at BFI, IndieWire, Variety, The Japan Times, and more
Contact: blakesimons97(at)gmail(dot)com
https://muckrack.com/blakesimons
Dan Paton @danpatonmusic.bsky.social Musician, Educator, Music Journalist, Part Time Cinephile, Politics/News, Whingeing about TfL
m.t. @mattlloydturner.bsky.social | everything's coming up milhouse |
writer, editor, researcher, concept engineer, goblin
mattlloydturner.com + http://nonlinearities.substack.com
Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London.
jeremymillar.org
Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015
Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
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
Robert Beeson @rbeesonfilm.bsky.social U.K. film distributor at New Wave Films.
savina petkova @savinapetkova.bsky.social writer • programmer • phd • babygirl