John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com Magic Hours - Malick
Visible Darkness - Glazer
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Connery A Novel
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Missy B @merlange.bsky.social Writer/Knitter/Learner/Reader/Observer/Eater/Music Listener/Movie Watcher-especially Bollywood;
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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
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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social Writer and filmmaker. Author of five books, most recently IN BETWEEN DAYS. She/her.
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social Shamelessly HIV+ actor, writer, public speaker based in London.
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johnekilberg @johnekil.bsky.social | non-binary director.writer.editor LA / NY / ATL ♒️
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Joel Kim Booster @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social Classically trained gay guy.
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Jeff Zhang @strangeharbors.bsky.social Film critic. Strange Harbors is a site about movies, television, and pop culture. The Strange Harbors Podcast.
Mike Dougherty @mikedockertee.bsky.social Film Curator in Los Angeles bringing cinematic treats to the Egyptian and Bay Theaters in LA, the Paris Theater in NYC. Formerly: Outfest, IFFLA, AFI Fest. Opinions mine, all mine.
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Will Mavity (mavericksmovies) @mavericksmovies.bsky.social Attorney, Film Journalist focusing on below-the-line production and Oscar season. @mavericksmovies on Twitter. Writer for @nextbestpicture. Occasional guest on @bbc and @skynews. Also, I have a super cute cat who I sometimes post about
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Pepe Ruiloba @peperuiloba.bsky.social Escribo de cine y programo festivales. ✍🏽Reforma; Cine Pantalla. Miembro FIPRESCI, ICS, Critics Choice, GALECA. IG: https://instagram.com/peperuiloba - Lxd: http://boxd.it/1f1ZT
Jack Smart @jacksmart.bsky.social 
James Kleinmann @jameskleinmann.com Founder & Editor TheQueerReview.com @thequeerreview.com (GLAAD Award-nominated x 3) / Actor / Producer / Member Dorian Awards (he/him) 📍NYC 🏳️🌈 Virgo ♍️ vegan 🌱 Insta: https://www.instagram.com/jameskleinmann?igsh=amVjOHZhNzg1aW13&utm_source=qr
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Brandon 🕸️ @bstanwyck.bsky.social He/Him • Horror writer • Ohioan in Texas
Gavin @shhhitsgavin.bsky.social Queer guy, film & television editor extraordinaire!
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James Jones @jamesjones.bsky.social Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker.
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes, Wanted, On The President’s Orders, Mosul, Children of the Gaza War.
New film: Antidote, coming 2025.
MIX NYC @mixnyc.bsky.social New York’s Queer Experimental Film Festival
Since 1987
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Derrick Austin @paradiselaust.bsky.social Author: THIS ELEGANCE, TENDERNESS, and TROUBLE THE WATER (BOA Editions) | Art Writer | He/Him
📍Chicago
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nadreviews @nadreviews.bsky.social 🇨🇦+🇮🇹
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Ben @ben1283.bsky.social Books; Category Fraud Invigilator; inquire within on where you should start on your Charlie Puth journey.
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Ro @bookblerd.bsky.social Writer | Book Reviewer | Podcaster |🍅 Tomatometer-Approved Critic | "The Most Lethal Definition of a Libra"| She/Her |
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
John Nugent @thenuge.bsky.social Reviews editor at Empire magazine (@empiremagazine.bsky.social)
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social TV and film critic for the Chicago Tribune
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
Meagan Damore @metathor.bsky.social Marvel Unlimited Curator | CBR Editor 2015 - 2022 | Though she be but little, she is fierce | She/Her
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Maddie McClouskey @soundofmaddie.bsky.social singer at the showtune bar. published in catapult, lyrics in big easy queens. older work: everyday feminism, everything sondheim, new musical theatre. brunette multi-hyphenate stereotype. they/them.
Sam Van Hallgren @samvanhallgren.bsky.social Dad, Filmspotting, NH native, Kenyon grad, wants your music/book recommendations. “Sticky spring leaves, the blue sky—I love them, that’s all!”
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found.
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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
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Raffi Sarkissian @rsark.bsky.social queer Armenian, made in L.A., live in VA, teach at CNU
media studies, queer culture, film festivals, awards discourse
Ryan Adams (filmystic) @ryanadams.bsky.social 📽📚 | 🏳️🌈🇹🇭 | 🌻🌊
(aka filmystic)
@TheContending.bsky.social @DorianAwards.bsky.social #Resistance #BlueCrew #Defiance #StandWithUkraine #WokeAF
Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com Founder & EIC, Mediaversity Reviews | TV & films graded on diversity | 🍅 critic | Seattle Film Critics Society member | Executive Editor at Common Sense Media (views her own) | 📍Seattle, WA
Sophia Ciminello @sophiacim.bsky.social Fonda Sun, Dunaway Moon, Keaton Rising | Host of Oscar Wild
Anderson D @heyheydra.bsky.social Now it’s time for a breakdown
Thomas AF✨✨✨ @tawilliams11.bsky.social Performer, director, professional walker of children in nature. *”Volk” intensifies* he/she/they
Michael Snydel @snydel.bsky.social He/him. Periodic writer about movies, regular musings about everything else. Former writer/podcaster; now i'm just trying to post through it.- H @huffmatt.bsky.social @huffmatt.bsky.social
Joey Moser @joeymoser.bsky.social Co-founder of The Contending. Perpetually thirsty short king. Corgi dad.
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.
tapeworthy @tapeworthy.bsky.social i still like to watch
I also like to ride
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.
And the Runner-Up Is @andtherunnerupis.bsky.social The movie review podcast that highlights the likely runner-up of past Oscar races! Currently covering Best Actress / Hosted by Kevin Jacobsen
Ale Alejandro @alealejandro.bsky.social Watches movies. Sometimes. Gets tired other times. 
Ayrton O'Brien 🇵🇸 @ayrtonobrien.bsky.social Film nerd / existential mess
Free Palestine
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Mari @cakeblanchett.bsky.social cate blanchett is the one ♥️
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Alix Lambert @lixilamb.bsky.social Artist, filmmaker, author
Kevin Jacobsen @kevinjacobsen.bsky.social Host of the podcasts And the Runner-Up Is and The World According to Glenn • Content Update Editor at Entertainment Weekly • Bi guy
Cap (he/him) @thecaptainhour.bsky.social I like rugby and movies a lot! Always ready to make new friends.
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Mariko @marikom.bsky.social Filmmaker, free 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩
doenahld @100showtunes.com Just moving from platform to platform following the 9 people who appreciate my silly little into the Woods jokes. | Cleveland is Home | 100showtunes.com
Morgan @msmlroberts.bsky.social Freelance Writer | Film Critic (In Their Own League, Filmotomy, Offscreen Central) | Wannabe Gilda Radner | Host of Female Gaze: The Film Club (@FemaleGazeFilmPod.bsky.social)
Chels @chels725.bsky.social Friendly Neighborhood Time Lord 💙💙
If you use AI, we aren’t friends & I will shame you until the end of time
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@acrosswhoniverse.bsky.social
@shhhmystoriesareon.bsky.social
@QDivisionPod.bsky.social
Lena Frances @lenafrances.bsky.social Dork about totally unrelatable crud. Neurodivergent Film/Animation Obsessive. Trans-Lesbian, She/Her.
I will dig this hole till you tell me it’s a hole.
Eric Marchen @ericmarchen.bsky.social @CriticsChoice Member | 🍅-approved | Film Critic/TV Host @ROGERStvDurham | @untitled_movies Co-Host | PO: @TheArtsGuildCA, @chuddotcom, @ThatShelf, & @TheTFS.
Elizabeth S. @elizs.bsky.social Film critic @ Cinapse.net, Austinite, SXSW Documentary Shorts Programming Associate ('21-'26), Dallas Wings fan 🏀. She/her.
Anne @robinandroid.bsky.social Arts, cinema, music, theatre, teacher, Los Angeles. - M @miquekf.bsky.social @miquekf.bsky.social
Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston. 
Sharareh Drury @sharareh.bsky.social • award-winning journalist • persian pop culture nerd • prev: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, PEOPLE, Culturess, E! News • GALECA + AMEJA
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Constance Grady @constancegrady.bsky.social Writer. Culture, books, celebrity, and gender. Previously at Vox, other bylines at The Toast and The AV Club. Miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other.
Patrick Heidmann @patrickheidmann.bsky.social journalist*critic*moderator
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writing & talking about films, streaming, TV, culture & more
sometimes in English, manchmal auf Deutsch
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Adam Nuchtern @adamnuchtern.bsky.social Autistic, Houstonian, lover of film and dogs, secular Jew. He/Him. Free Palestine
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Deaf Crocodile @deafcrocodile.bsky.social Deaf Crocodile is a boutique Distribution + Restoration + Post-Production company focused on new, independent, lost/unseen and world cinema.
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Rotem Rusak @rotemrusak.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief @Nerdist, Words around the internet! Save #Hannibal. Fannibal. Magic & Myth. She/Her, Contact: rotemrusak@gmail.com; rrusak@nerdist.com, http://ko-fi.com/Z8Z2CG3I, Moondancer1626 on Twitter
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
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