Kevin Murphy @murphofilmo.bsky.social Professional Nerd. Media reviews, criticism, analysis, and goofing off.
Staff Writer at moviejawn.com
https://linktr.ee/murphofilmo
Del Winters @del.winters.rodeo The aroma of Coca-Cola, melted M&M's, and stale popcorn marinating in a movie theater trash can.
mid.winters.rodeo
moviejawn.com contributor, Philly resident
@sarahdehena.bsky.social @sarahdehena.bsky.social 
Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com De/anti-colonialism, Indigenous Cinemas, Settler National Cinemas (CANZUS).
Settler kid, raised on Peramangk country.
Programming: londonaustfilm.com
Teaching: @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social
Kyle Barnett @kylebarnett.bsky.social Media studies professor. Participant observer. Itinerant Hoosier. Author, Record Cultures (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2020). Faculty adviser/occasional DJ, Bellarmine Radio.
https://www.kylesbarnett.org/
Eric Pitz @imericpitz.bsky.social UCLA cinema and media studies PhD candidate • animation and comedy film historian • dissertation about the Fleischer Studios • I like movies and trivia • he/him
In Los Angeles, from Minneapolis
Website: https://www.ericpitz.com/
Marsha Gordon @marshagordon.bsky.social Film historian, professor, writer, doc filmmaker, lover of nature, travel, and good food. Latest book, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott." Next book: a bio of Dorothy Arzner. https://www.marshagordon.org
Joan Neuberger @jayneu.bsky.social Retired prof living it up in NYC.
History/Film/Digital/
Current book: Eisenstein & Nature. Strong opinions about tennis.
Gimme some acoustic blues.
She/her. ☮️ Ceasefire Now.
Tiffany Knoell, Ph.D. @tlknoell.bsky.social Professional nerd. Occasional time traveler. Co-host of Silent Film Fridays on Stream.place. Associate Teaching Professor and historian at the intersection of media and culture. Views are my own, not those of my employer.
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
Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social Producer of arts docs, screen performance; posts by John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, Univ of Westminster; expect broadcasting history, esp early TV, theatre, film, visual art
Images: Magic Rays of Light / de Stael, Le Saladier (detail), ‘54
Dattatreya Ghosh @dattag.bsky.social PhD candidate and SYLFF fellow in Film Studies @jadavpuruniversity | Charles Wallace Fellow | Studying cinema, crisis, film discourse, public sphere etc.
Jacob Gaboury @jacobgaboury.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Media, UC Berkeley (he/him)
Media History | STS | Queer Theory | Digital Visual Culture
Book: Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (2021)
Now: Screenshot Histories & Queer Computing
https://jacobgaboury.com
Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social Researching modernism, queer networks, literature and silent cinema 📚🎞️ writing about the POOL group 🌊 teaching film and poetry. She/her.
Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social Games, Movies, Music and Books 🍅-approved, coffee and whisky-driven culture wordsmith. Words in IGN, NME, Radio Times, DIY, Clash, Metro, Yahoo and others. Member of the UK Film Critics Association.
Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | film, dance, musicals, Jacques Demy, genre, videographic criticism | she/her | maman | author of Storytelling in Motion: Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical (Oxford UP, 2024)
Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social Writer/film critic at tyburrswatchlist.com. Ex-Boston Globe, WaPo, EW. Pulitzer Finalist, 2017. Books at https://tinyurl.com/ytpycuh3. “He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news” — Brecht. KanMu.74
Dr. Andy Owens @andyowens85.bsky.social Instructional Associate Professor, University of Iowa. Researching/teaching film & TV history, genre studies/horror, and LGBTQ+/critical race theory. Author of DESIRE AFTER DARK (Indiana UP, 2021).
Tom Piper @tompiper.bsky.social Theatre/exhibition/ installation designer #Poppies WW2VE80 installation @HistoricRoyalPalaces #Traviata @OperaGlassworks #Hamlet @eddieIzzard #1984 @CitizensGlasgow #FairyTales @BritishLibrary #Hamnet @RSC USA tour #Meredith @GateTheatreDublin
Shanna Gilkeson @shannagilkeson.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Media, Cinema and Journalism at Eastern Michigan University. Fan studies scholar. Chair of Star Trek Studies and Fan Studies subject areas at MPCA. Post may be fannish, scholarly, or full of cats. Opinions are my own.
Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.bsky.social Film archivist, programmer, writer, collector etc
Director of Operations at OCN Distribution, Curator of Cinématographe, Producer at Vinegar Syndrome
Words at Screen Slate and Letterboxd, mostly
https://letterboxd.com/jlalibs/
Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social assoc prof @ UW CMS, editor Feminist Media Histories, lover of tea, pickleball addict, collector of (filmic) junk
jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social Professor, cinephile, treehugger 🌱🪵🪲🦬
Merrill Schleier @merrillschleier.bsky.social I am a professor of Art and Architectural History and Film Studies. I write on the intersection of gender, race, and class in cinema. I am a feminist, anti-racist, green resister who votes Blue. I love films, books, museums, hiking, and nature.
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Chris Becker @chrisbecker.bsky.social Associate Professor in Film, Television, and Theatre and the Sport, Media, & Culture Minor at University of Notre Dame. Working on a local TV history project: https://sites.nd.edu/boc-project/
Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social scholar of art/cinema/media
https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/matthew-noble-olson.html
Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: TRANS CINEMA: MAKING COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES, AND WORLDS (2026). she/her (white cis queer)
Nick Davie @nickdavie.bsky.social Film/Television PhD Researcher @ UoN: arthouse, authorship, formalism in Twin Peaks: The Return. Here for the Garmonbozia. @ whalefromtv on Twitter/X, words for various.
Nickdavie.wordpress.com
Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social Pretty into cats, classical Hollywood, DVDs, and the beach. Currently writing on adaptations of Marilyn Monroe as a character. Author of _Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe_. Co-editor of _Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend_.
Amanda: Half Animal, Half Human @amandaannklein.bsky.social media studies professor writing supernatural historical crime fiction. bylines: New Yorker, Salon, Atlantic, KERA, Vice, E!
Views expressed are my own
Millennials Killed the Video Star: https://www.dukeupress.edu/millennials-killed-the-video-star
Amanda Jane Stern - Perfectly Good Moment out now on Tubi @amandajanestern.com #SAGAFTRA Actor┃Writer┃Prod┃Repped by Citizen Skull & Broad Talent┃Podcasts: Pleasers & Punishers, Murder Made Fiction, Don't Be Crazy┃She/Her 🩷💜💙
linktr.ee/ajstern
Watch Perfectly Good Moment: https://tubitv.com/movies/100026616/pe
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social Award-winning reporter and film critic.
Veep, Austin Film Critics Association.
Bylines at Austin Chronicle. The Times, Birth.Movies.Death.
Heard on One of Us, Overhated, Certified Forgotten.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/richard-whittaker/movies
hank gerba @hankg.bsky.social phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
John Hudgens @johnhudgens.bsky.social Award-winning filmmaker (AMERICAN SCARY, BACKYARD BLOCKBUSTERS), lots of work on other properties (BABYLON 5, STAR WARS, CRIMSON SKIES) - I try to stay busy...
Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.blacksky.app Shuri's mom. Publisher of Fabulize; a pop culture feminist mag for BIPOC nerds. Cannabis lover. Neurospicy creative. Emerging comic book writer and novelist. 🏳️🌈 Lambda + Ignatz Awards nominee subscribe: https://mailchi.mp/f0796697386b/fabulizemagsubscribeme
Martin L. Johnson @martinlj.bsky.social Film historian and urbanist. Co-president of Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema. Coming attractions include A Teaching Companion to Silent Cinema (Rutgers) and a history of advertising film (Illinois).
Joanne Knowles @joanneknowlesuk.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, Communication @LJMU. Research interests in culture, media & literary studies #C19 to now. My views, RT ≠ endorsement.
Victoria Sturtevant @vsturtevant.bsky.social Media Studies Faculty. Author of It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy. Always up to talk comedy, gender, popular media, and reproductive politics.
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330449/
Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social I write about movies. Sometimes I talk about them. Usually just write. Award-winning screenwriter for what it's worth. Film instructor at the University of Colorado, Denver, but ridiculous social media presence definitely my own. http://walterchaw.com
Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social Popular culture and politics.
Sometimes academic who writes about those things.
Co-hosts Ill Effects, good podcast about bad media influence https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=zRsbRad6SZO
Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social Writer and film history researcher focusing especially on the silent/pre-Code eras (and the overlooked faces within). I talk a lot about Jean Harlow.
linktr.ee/vitaphonezone
Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social film & lit prof, culture writer, editor, higher ed unionist, author of Elaine May (U of Illinois Press, 2025) and Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction (Ohio UP, 2019). Opinions my own.
Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social Historian of cinemas and their audiences. Escape room champion, optimistic hiker, book writer, board game player, cat tickler, very lucky husband🏳️🌈
Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com I write, think, and podcast about media, technology, and society. Author, Survival of the Richest, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Team Human.
Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@douglasrushkoff
Support: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman
lena barkin @scenicrailway.bsky.social https://thefanthropologist.com/ newsletter✨ Film & TV studies MFA ✨ Jamie scholar ✨ I believe soup was invented in 1867 by Shrek ✨hutch baby please call me I'm very normal 🪴🦓3️⃣ linktr.ee/lenabarkin
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social global media professor
author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01
español incluído.
Jennifer Hessler @jenmhessler.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California
Media History|Media Industries|Television|Audiences|Technology and Society
Views my own
Dr. Molly Schneider @moschneids.bsky.social TV Historian. she/her
Out now from University of Texas Press:
Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama & Midcentury American Culture
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329276/
Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of The Twin Geeks, Seattle Film Critics Society member.
thetwingeeks.com
Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social Author, teacher, anti-authoritarian, media studies prof @ Utrecht Univ. New book – FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demons • Creator of https://blackwhiteandread.com/ • Author of Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy (2025) • Wife of My Favorite Person • she/her
Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.social Husband to @philipchaffin.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈 Daddy to Gregory. 🐶 I run the record label PS Classics (@psclassics.bsky.social), co-host @thenoircollective.bsky.social and write about vintage film & TV. https://thatsallsiknow.blogspot.com
Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social Film/Media/Comm/Sound
MAKING STEREO FIT
www.ucpress.edu/books/making-stereo-fit/
Lover of Kiarostami, Rivette, Sondheim, Philip Roth, The Dark Tower, Twin Peaks, Pale Fire, Calvino, and Taylor Swift.
"The cinema has not yet been invented!" - Spinoza
FilmSnobbery - Nic LaRue @filmsnobbery.com Film Critic / Author / Screenwriter
MA Authors Against Book Bans Co-Leader
Mass Freedom To Read Coalition (I helped pass a law!)
Cinematic Worldbuilding (CRC Press) OUT NOW!
My TV Dads (Bear Manor Media, 2027)
https://linktr.ee/nlarue
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Michelle Strattard @chellestrat.bsky.social High School History teacher - Model UN - GSTA 🏳️🌈 - 2021 Maine History Teacher of the Year - she/her - all opinions are my own
A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social Historian of Media, Fake News, and Propaganda. Author/Co-Author of BROADCAST HYSTERIA; SCARFACE AND THE UNTOUCHABLE; ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER. Michigan Wolverine with a Princeton PhD.
Jon Hughes @riderjon.bsky.social Academic in German + Cultural Studies, Royal Holloway Uni. of London, researching film, lit, history, sport. Books on Joseph Roth, Max Schmeling. Latest book: PEOPLE ON SUNDAY, out now with Bloomsbury/BFI Film Classics. Cyclist, cat person, European.
PT Klein @ptklein.com Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
Janet Maslin @janetmaslin.bsky.social Board President, Jacob Burns Film Center. Longtime NYT critic.
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.
Andy Wolverton @awolverton.bsky.social Librarian, reader, writer, film lover. Author of MEN DON'T READ. https://andywolverton.substack.com
https://www.youtube.com/@journeysindarknessandlight5775/videos 
Trapped by Television @loulumenick.bsky.social Everything you wanted to know about the twisted history of theatrical movies on TV between (mostly) 1939-1984 and so much more. Happy to answer your questions!
Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social Communication & Journalism, University of Maine.
2019 Fulbright Scholar, University of Canberra.
Posts speak only for myself, not my employer
https://umaine.edu/directory/ums_directory/michael-j-socolow-ph-d/
Kate Fortmueller @kfortmueller.bsky.social Media industries, labor, and unions.
Author of Below the Stars & Hollywood Shutdown (both 2021), Co-editor, Hollywood Unions (2025), Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers w/ @mirandabanks.bsky.social (2026).
Assoc. Prof @GSU
Chuck Tee @chutry.bsky.social High school ESL teacher and political activist based in Quincy, MA. In my previous life as a media studies professor I wrote three books, including On-Demand Culture and Reinventing Cinema. Chihuahua wrangler.
Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social Senior editor @ LARB, freelance culture writer, mom in the DC burbs. Here for the nuanced takes, the good faith arguments, and the jokes
@brfaucette.bsky.social @brfaucette.bsky.social Academic. Writer. Author of Hawaii Five-O (TV Milestone) from Wayne State Univ. Press. Fascinated by TV, film, and gender studies, especially American masculinities. 
Kimberly Pierce @kpierce624.bsky.social Critic. Archivist. Author.
Co-Chair Denver Film Critics.
https://piercingpopculture.substack.com/
Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite
Ali Mayer @aliciamayer.bsky.social Mayer family historian. Great-grandniece of Louis B. Mayer. 100 years of MGM! Left social media in 2018. Newly back. Let’s see what happens. (TM attorney in 🇦🇺 so forgive occasional British spelling.) HollywoodEssays.com
Katie Gee Salisbury @kayteesal.bsky.social Author of ✨NOT YOUR CHINA DOLL✨ a new biography of Anna May Wong, first Asian American movie star, available wherever books are sold. Words in NYT, Vanity Fair, The Believer & elsewhere.
linktr.ee/kayteesal
eric rolland @ejrolland.bsky.social 
Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social The Cinema of Extractions (2025), Media Climates (2022), In the Studio (2020), Studios Before the System (2015)
Writing about Art, Media, Energy, Environment. Next book: oil, gas, and media culture in France+empire
Caltech Professor of Visual Culture
Dr. Annette Bochenek @home2hollywood.bsky.social Classic cinema-loving redhead entranced by the Golden Age of Hollywood and Art Deco. TCM Writer. Author. June Preisser biographer. #TCMParty goer #LetsMovie
Joel Tscherne @tscherne.org Historian/Librarian, teaching history at SNHU and UArizona, podcast host of New Books in Film, born in Cleveland, and living on the lake!
Front Row Classics Podcast @frnclassics.bsky.social A Golden Age Film Podcast
Join us in celebration of all things Classic Hollywood
NPR Illinois Community Voices
LISTEN: https://linktr.ee/FrontRowClassics
Daniel S. Levine @dsl89.bsky.social Staff Editor at PEOPLE.com. Lover of Star Wars, movies, music and comics. MA native. Opinions are my own and do not represent the views of PEOPLE he/him
Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social Hollywood historian. Technology, media industries, labor, craft. Program Coordinator of Cinema and Media Studies@ USC. Hollywood Unions (Rutgers, 2025), Engineering Hollywood (Oxford, 2021)
Nikki @dorvid4.bsky.social Bed person not bad person.
Journalist & Photographer. 🔵
Movies • TV • Food • Naps• Dogs • Travel • #Bravo Shows • Comedy • #TCM
Ashley R. Smith-Campbell @ashleyrsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College | PhD in Screen Cultures from Northwestern | Writing on horror, culture, race, and gender | True crime & media trash lover | Opinions are mine | Formerly @thehorrorfemme on Twitter
Kelli Marshall @kellimarshall.bsky.social Chicago and movies, one tour at a time: chicagomovietours.com. Ph.D. Transplant from Louisiana. Hardcore Gene Kelly fan.
Mistress of the Reel™ @sleepyserenade.bsky.social lover of Dean Martin & the moving image 📼 Theatre Manager 📽️ Projectionist 🎞️
Scott McGee--not a fascist @johnscottmcgee.bsky.social "My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land."
TCM Sen. Dir. of Orig. Programming (and formerly FilmStruck...)
Author of DANGER ON THE SILVER SCREEN.
My dream dinner party: Lincoln, Will Rogers and Bugs Bunny.
Donna Hill 💙🇺🇸🐈⬛🎬 @rudyfan.bsky.social Author Rudolph Valentino the Silent Idol, decent cook, terrible housekeeper, currently researching Dorothy Gish, old movies are my jam, currently craving a good hot dog. William H. Powell is my adorable cat and I share pics of him.
Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies @UIUC; Author of PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES: HOW FILM DISTRIBUTION MADE THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM (University of Texas Press, 2024)
Kellee aka IrishJayhawk66 @kelleepratt.bsky.social #ClassicFilm Teacher, #TCMParty original, #TCM Ambassador, Outspoken & Freckled in the Sunflower State #RockChalk #MasterGardener kelleepratt.com
Seth Abramovitch @sethabramovitch.bsky.social Senior Writer at The Hollywood Reporter since 2012. Host of It Happened in Hollywood Podcast. LA Press Club 2026 Entertainment Journalist of the Year.
Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen @sheribiesen.bsky.social Cinema Professor. Film History. Jazz. Books: Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style. Blackout: World War II & Origins of Film Noir. Film Censorship. Music in the Shadows📚📽️🎷
https://noirbooks.blogspot.com
https://SheriChinenBiesen.blogspot.com
Kliph Nesteroff @classicshowbiz.bsky.social I write books. You consider reading them. “Sorry, We’re Funny,” a History of Canadian Comedy, will be released October 19, 2026.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777133/sorry-were-funny-by-kliph-nesteroff/
Justin Rawlins @justinrawlins.bsky.social Prof Media/Film | Author: Imagining the Method http://bit.ly/43QVOa4 | Research: acting, celebrity, screen histories, Arctic media | he/him
Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social Owner of Comet Over Hollywood since 2009. Gidgetologist. Dynasty fan. Chad & Jeremy enthusiast.
Katie Bird @arthousedirectr.bsky.social Video Essayist, Independent Film Scholar, Lapsed Academic. Hollywood Film Labor and Film History.
Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies. Author of Bad Film Histories. Writing a book about reference. Views my own. Most get deleted.
Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social Registrar by day, movie watcher by night. #ClassicMovies Blogger #Películas She/Her #ClassicHollywood #BanAssaultWeapons #TCMParty original
Noah Gittell @noahgittell.bsky.social Troubador. Former film critic, author, lobbyist, bartender. Was once seen in NYT, The Atlantic, The Guardian. Now seen at open mic night, possibly in your town.