Adam Kempenaar @filmspotting.bsky.social Iowa Prof | Co-Host of Filmspotting, offering “weekly installments of affable, insightful film analysis since 2005.” — The New York Times
Rose-Colored Headphones @rchpodcast.bsky.social A podcast about misunderstood or forgotten music that deserves a second listen. Wherever you get podcasts, or right here: https://sites.libsyn.com/497838
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social See link below for Manson book!
American Studies, UMass Boston
Current Project- “Boston Sounds, 1974-1999” @fsu_UMB
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Books on Black-Jewish relations (Right to Sing the Blues and Leo Frank), 9/11 and Manson.
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Maddie @maddiewhittle.bsky.social you and me and the moon
Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social high school teacher, horror-lover, poet, Bright Wall/Dark Room editor, parent, person
Your cousin, *Marvin Darwin*! @jasonklamm.com "Ferris Bueller...You're My Hero" available everywhere now: djch.xyz/ferris
jasonklamm.com/live
"Presenting... Dick Davy" @ Stand Up! Records
Author, actor, podcaster, library worker.
It's pronounced "klahm"
@stormsurgeofreverb.bsky.social @stormsurgeofreverb.bsky.social
Chris Klimek @ctklimek.bsky.social Semi-pro aesthete; less-pro athlete. Writing about theatre, movies, books, and ephemera wherever I'm welcome. Sweaty man, sweaty jokes.
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social ✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 maryag7@gmail.com | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | Programmer, Must-Watch Indies @ FACETS Chicago | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
Dan Ewen @danewen.bsky.social Writer, producer, straight-edge vegan from Athens, GA. "Clean Slate" on Prime. Paramount's DEAR SANTA.
Old Movies @oldmoviespodcast.bsky.social Old Movies! A film and conversation podcast, hosted by Paul Martinovic, available on all good podcasting platforms.
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
Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social Consultant! Writer! Programmer! Host! SEMcast, SHINY THINGS, "former Toronto fest film picker" - The Hollywood Reporter. He/him. https://linktr.ee/normwilner
Matt Weiland @mattweiland.bsky.social VP & Senior Editor at Norton; co-editor of STATE BY STATE, THINKING FAN'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD CUP, and COMMODIFY YOUR DISSENT; midfielder from Minneapolis.
Yore: Ecco, Paris Review, Granta, The Baffler, MPR, Minnesota Kicks camp.
www.mattweiland.com
Godzilla vs Context @godzillavscontext.bsky.social Posts of random Godzilla clips/shots without context.
Highlighting the silly, exciting, funny, endearing, strange, or otherwise entertaining moments from Godzilla films.
*Currently sunset!* Posts may be extremely infrequent or not at all.
Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social Critic @nytimes.com. The kind of girl who goes to a late movie in the middle of the week, I'm crazy. Author of WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES (paperback out now!), SALTY (2022), AFTERGLOW (forthcoming). Teaching at NYU XE.
Jacqueline Codiga (DJ horse jeans) @horsejeans.bsky.social Writer, sometimes podcaster, DJ, general music and movies dork, transsexual loudmouth ~ (she / her)
Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com Author: CLINT; The Castle on Sunset; Paul Newman: A Life; Dolce Vita Confidential; &ct
Film guy/Soccer nut/Burner/Poet/Portlander/Board member @opipdx/Dad/Grandad/Grouch
NOT THE SHAWN LEVY WHO MAKES MOVIES AND SHOWS!!!
https://shawnlevy.com
Michael Glover Smith @whitecitycinema.bsky.social Chicago-based filmmaker (HEKLA, RELATIVE, MERCURY IN RETROGRADE), author (BOB DYLAN AS FILMMAKER, FLICKERING EMPIRE), teacher
Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social i’d prefer not to.
Neil Serven @neilserven.bsky.social Fiction & essays, novel in progress. Co-owner @federalstbooks.bsky.social . Candlepin bowler. Language stuff. A lot of crank air. Used to write the dictionary.
Western Massachusetts.
Your daily John Waters screenshot @johnwatersbot.bsky.social I have never found the antics of deviants to be one bit amusing.
(by @jordan-r.bsky.social)
Michael Brooke @marbleicehook.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor and DVD/Blu-ray producer/commentator specialising in British and central/eastern European cinema. Indexes to my regular posts celebrating the latter (9am daily, 9pm most days) can be found at http://www.michaelbrooke.com/bluesky
Brian Raftery @brianraftery.bsky.social Author and podcaster. You can pre-order HANNIBAL LECTER: A LIFE here: https://shorturl.at/nMUxV Press queries: rebecca.rozenberg@simonandschuster.com Email: brianraftery@gmail.com
Caroline von Golum @carolineavenue.bsky.social A little brains, a little talent
📹 cinema-firmament.com 📹
Jeremy Marshall @jeremymarshall.bsky.social Screenwriter. Screen Time @ http://MyNewOrleans.com. He/Him
Amina Memory @aminamemorycain.bsky.social Writer. Los Angeles. Thinking about books & art and aesthetic & transcendent experience. aminacain.com
juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social neurotic, queer, latin american writer and programmer. they/them. co-creator & filmmaker for flaming classics. chair of the florida film critics circle.
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher
tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective
phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social can't stop the rawk
"Every movie is a documentary of the times and places where it was filmed."
https://letterboxd.com/queencityjamz/
Queen City of the Pains, CO
#marqueespotting
Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social Professor Film and Lit, Author of Chicago and the Making of American Modernism (Bloomsbury Academic, Historicizing Modernism Series), coeditor Refocus: The Films of John Waters and Refocus: The Films of Paul Schrader (EUP).
1984 Publishing @1984prods.bsky.social
Evan Kindley @evankindley.bsky.social "The New York School: Poetry, Art, and Friendship in Midcentury Manhattan" forthcoming from Knopf, March 2027 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737462/th
Scott Meslow @scottmeslow.bsky.social Author:
— A PLACE BOTH WONDERFUL AND STRANGE: THE EXTRAORDINARY UNTOLD HISTORY OF TWIN PEAKS (Running Press, coming soon)
— FROM HOLLYWOOD WITH LOVE: THE RISE AND FALL (AND RISE AGAIN) OF THE ROMANTIC COMEDY (Dey Street, available now)
Jason P. Woodbury @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social “When you begin a note, it comes from somewhere and keeps going forever…Part of it does, anyway…Nothing is lost. Everything keeps going around.” —W.A. Mathieu
Writer, podcaster, musician.
Jeff Wood @coopershawk.bsky.social Zone // Hundred Acre Wood // ^o^ // Actor, Rufus Corporation // The Glacier, Two Dollar Radio // Essays, 3AM Magazine, Socrates on the Beach. Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8, Bloomsbury.
https://linktr.ee/jeffwood
Steadyslife @steadyslife.bsky.social
Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social Professional obsessive.
BYLINES: Bright Wall/Dark Room, Southwest Review, Letterboxd, Fangoria, etc
COMMENTARY TRACKS/BOOKLETS: Cinematographe, Fun City Editions, Vinegar Syndrome, Radiance, Imprint, Shout Factory
https://linktr.ee/black_neon
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
Larry Karaszewski @larrythek.bsky.social Film maker/lover
https://boxd.it/jDAr
Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com
Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com only the good shit.
Wilco @wilcohq.bsky.social Your band's favorite band.
wilcoworld.net
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
@karinalongworth.bsky.social @karinalongworth.bsky.social
The Worst Part of My Favorite Movie @worstpartpod.bsky.social “Great movies are rarely perfect movies.”
— Pauline Kael
Hosted by Jonathan Foster and Tripp
von Weeks
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-worst-part-of-my-favorite-movie/id1654690849
Sara Clements @saraclements.bsky.social She/Her 🏳️🌈 Film Critic • Next Best Picture editor • Words XTRA, Them, Pajiba etc • GALECA, OAFFC member 💌 saradawnc@gmail.com • https://linktr.ee/saraclements
Mark Bringelson @markbringelson.bsky.social Favorite Film: Chinatown/ Fave Music Artists: David Bowie/ Tyler The Creator/ Frank Ocean/ Lana Del Rey/ Favorite Writer: Dennis Cooper/ Favorite Food: Mexican
Profile Pic by Ed Freeman
Single & Lives in West Hollywood, CA
instagram.com/markbringelson
Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social Film and media publisher for Bloomsbury books + BFI.
Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social At Johns Hopkins University Press, we envision a future where knowledge enriches the life of every person.
Home to @projectmuse.bsky.social
press.jhu.edu
Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social Film critic/journalist. Mexican 🇲🇽 DACA. Bylines LA Times, New York Times, IndieWire, RogerEbert, Backstage
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East
Melissa Maerz @melissamaerz.bsky.social Author of ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT.
Prev: VICE, Entertainment Weekly, L.A. Times, Vulture.
Jen Chaney @jenchaney.bsky.social Current: TV and film critic free agent. Former: Vulture, WashPost. Prev bylines: NYT, Vanity Fair, others. Literally wrote the book on Clueless.
33 1/3 Books @3313books.bsky.social Short books about legendary albums and music genres. 📚 🎶 Published by Bloomsbury.
Explore the 33 1/3 hub! ⬇️
www.bloomsbury.com/33-13-hub
Vincent Haddad @vincenthaddad.bsky.social Scholar of literature and popular culture.
Author of The Detroit Genre (Lever Press, 2024) and Next Time on Dragon Ball (U Minn Press, 2026)
New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
https://linktr.ee/newbooksnetwork
Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social Assistant Professor · Communication · Tulane University
Look, I made a hat: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/staging-a-comeback/9781978827813/
J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct, old VV staff writer
📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War
🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
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/
Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social Old hippie, tree hugger, childless cat lady, lover of animals and some humans, I write about movies for the New York Times. Member of the Times Guild, which is represented by the NewsGuild of New York. Trolls, haters and bigots blocked.
Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social Recliner Notes are written explorations into items that require further investigation: http://reclinernotes.com
Contributor to Aquarium Drunkard and Asheville Stages
Michael Hull @fifthcolumnfilms.bsky.social Director/editor of BETRAYAL AT ATTICA (HBOMax 2021), producer of WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES (Independent Lens 2024)
I make GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC with Jason Bailey and BLACK DIPLOMATS with Terrell Starr
Let's make a movie!
Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social Modern-day folk hero. For a good time, call willsloan.ca
Sticking Place Books @stickingplacebk.bsky.social Sticking Place Books is a New York-based publisher specializing in cinema, offering interview books, memoirs, critical & historical studies, & essay collections
https://stickingplacebooks.com/
Karie Bible @cemeterytourguide.bsky.social Tour guide at Hollywood Forever Cemetery ⚰️, Host of Hollywood Kitchen, Film history 🎞, TCM fan 📽, Vintage clothing collector
Fright Club @frightya.bsky.social "Oh no. Is the penis going to re-animate as well?"
#FrightClub watch parties nightly at 10 Eastern. #Horror, some action/sci-fi, thriller content. All are welcome!
Feed: https://bsky.app/profile/track.goodfeeds.co/feed/9895d1ace253
Adam Cesare @adamcesare.bsky.social Horror Enthusiast. Bram Stoker Award-winning author. CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD, VIDEO NIGHT, DEAD MALL, and more. Please buy a book. https://linktr.ee/adamcesare
Alys Arden @alysarden.bsky.social Writer. Swamp witch. Sometimes corporate goth.
The Casquette Girls series (Skyscape)🦇
Zatanna: The Jewel of Gravesend (DCComics) 🎩
Rep: Alexandra Machinist, CAA
One Heat Minute Productions @ohmpods.bsky.social OBSESSIVE MOVIE PODCASTS incl. #OneHeatMinute, #IncrementVice, #JosieandthePodcats, #MiamiNice, #ZODIACCHRONICLE, #PodThomasAnderson
Support http://patreon.com/OneHeatMinute
Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com Keep circulating the tapes.
https://www.jasondashbailey.com/
YIPPEE KI-YAY Book: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/yippee-ki-yay_9781419783753/
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC podcast: pod.link/1274489817
Letterboxd @jasondashbailey
Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social Film Critic. Projectionalist.
www.splicedpersonality.com
Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social Editor of The Bulwark
https://www.thebulwark.com/
Host of a Secret Podcast.
Also a super double-secret podcast you can't find.
Steven Hyden @stevenhyden.bsky.social The Ween Of American Rock Critics. Author of six books. My book on The Strokes is out 9/8/26. Indiecast dude. Writing at Evil Speakers: https://stevenhyden.substack.com
@reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social Operated by Michael Koresky. A publication of @movingimagenyc.bsky.social
Amy Green @amygreen.bsky.social Real name of podcasting superstar Annie Malone
Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social The scholarly arm of Bloomsbury Books.
Posting news on what we're publishing in the humanities, social sciences, and visual arts.📚
London | New York | Sydney | New Delhi
Bloomsbury Academic starter pack: https://bit.ly/46qkzOf
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/
After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
You're Tall but I'm Standing in Front of You @youretallpod.bsky.social two friends, circling the drain of academia, examine the cultural detritus of the 20th century. it's a podcast. https://tinyurl.com/youretall.
FILMWAR! @filmwar.bsky.social Movie game show/podcast/whatever with VHS prizes! 📼 🎥 📼
Full video episodes at https://youtube.com/@filmwar & https://thefilmwar.com
We don't say the word 'Goonies' on this show #askmewhy
Always looking for new contestants!
@doctorshort.bsky.social @doctorshort.bsky.social
New World Pictures Podcast @newworldpicpod.bsky.social America's #1 podcast about New World Pictures. Join Erica, Marc, and Ryan as they discuss every film & interview those involved. A guaranteed good time. Part of Someone's Favorite Productions Podcast Network.
https://linktr.ee/newworldpicturespodcast
Rayna Nielsen @qemorio.bsky.social Creator of @bookbanterbooks.bsky.social Indie Bookseller, Traveler, Lover, Reader, Mom, #nolasky Pussyfooter, trying to make life an adventure.
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
Jake Clapp @jakeclapp.bsky.social Staff writer at Gambit
✉️: jclapp@gambitweekly.com
Sam Thomas @literarymetal.bsky.social Associate Professor of American Studies
Pynchon | Film & TV | Metal & Experimental Music | Genre & Franchise Culture | Political Violence | Star Wars
he/him
Views my own
Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
https://beacons.ai/reactormag
Matt Brennan @mattbrennan.bsky.social Drawing a blank.
Jesse Brenneman @jkbrenneman.bsky.social Fake tech show host (Tech Talk) • Podcast editor for Know Your Enemy & Jewish Currents • Vinyl DJ on KBGA • Musician • linktr.ee/jkbrenneman
Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social Singer-songwriter for the Paranoid Style, contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, The Ringer, Pitchfork, LGM.
Jeff Vennard @jeffvennard.bsky.social I work in tv and like movies that make me think and feel.
Josh Roiland @joshroiland.bsky.social Assistant Professor • Dept. of English • UNC Wilmington • Literary Journalism • 1898 • Writer • Minnesotan