Lydia Hamessley @lydiahamessley.bsky.social Musicologist. Author — Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton (U of Ill Press) and Dolly Parton’s Jolene (Oxford Univ. Press). Professor of Music, Hamilton College. Cyclist, banjo player, old/classic movies, antique quilts. 🪕🐈🎶🎥🚴🏼 #TCMParty
ProgGrrl @proggrrl.bsky.social I work in TV whatever that means now. Cinephile. News junkie. Treehugger. Brooklyn NY. Hating on fascists and authoritarians. I follow tons of folks to grow a great news/culture feed for myself to read, so there.
S @vidiot.bsky.social Video wrangler, journo, cocktailian, flâneur, shutterbug, quizzer, semi-pro New Yorker, fitful writer, cognitive diffident.
"Tired and emotional." (Opinions solely mine. Reposts/likes ≠ endorsements, sillypants.) He/him.
dfilipi @flip1.bsky.social Film, sports, comics, food, occasional political rant from the left. Twins, Blue Jackets, Buckeyes, T-Wolves, Vikings. I'm a film curator and teach animation history. Living in the 614. Opinions my own. 
Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social News Editor @mississippifreepress.org •Writer 🖋️ •Film Shooter 📷 •Husband 🏳️🌈 •Pibble Dad 🐾 Opinions = mine
Eloise Ross @cinemelo.bsky.social I'm Gun Crazy, & I love Barbara Stanwyck so much it hurts sometimes | PhD in sound & Classical Hollywood | film studies lecturer | co-curator @melbcinematheque.bsky.social
https://letterboxd.com/cinemelo/ 
Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social The Air Contains Honey
Artistic Director of PME-ART
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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Desire Without Expectation
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
davidfresko @fresko.bsky.social cinema studies professor
Libby Morse @libbyr.bsky.social “Pragmatic and somewhat buzzy”— The New York Times
frank falisi @frankfalisi.bsky.social "miscreant perpetrator of low burlesque"
writing at: reverse shot, bright wall/dark room, larb, tiny mix tapes, etc.
Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
Gary Dauphin @ebogjonson.bsky.social museum digital, speculative fiction, occasional writing
LA-based / Hecho en South Queens / 🇭🇹
opinions very VERY much my own //
varied interests 
summer's last gleaming of a new instance @o-c.bsky.social As Serious as Your Life he/him
https://boxd.it/MvpD
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Ian W. Hill @geminicollision.bsky.social American Artist.
Theatre and otherwise. Brooklyn. NYC.
He/Him. Spouse of Berit.
Autoimmune Diseased.
Aging Pinko Atheist Noir Punk.
Founder/Director of Arts collective
Gemini CollisionWorks.
Co-Creator/Sound Designer of
audio sitcom LIFE WITH ALTHAAR.
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Jeff Seelbach @sievefistedfind.bsky.social Documentary Film & TV including jams like Philly DA (PBS), Queer Futures (Criterion), 16 Shots (Showtime), Dear Mr. Brody (Discovery+)
Old Haunts: Topic, AJ+, Wide Angle/PBS, WNUR, Dusted Mag
Header: God Bless América
Avatar: use in case of Purple Rain
Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
pjmaciak.substack.com
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
B.A. Parker @baparker.bsky.social co-host of code switch on npr (she/her)
Jody Arlington @jodyarlington.bsky.social Film & TV PR & Programming / Hoya / Chihuahua Aficionado. Opinions are my own.
James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social Associate Vice President for Communications, Wesleyan University | Prior: Center Theatre Group, Lincoln Center, AMNH | Columbia Journalism Alum | Air Force Vet 🇺🇸 | Arts & Theatre Geek 🎭 Film/TV, Media, HigherEd & Democracy ✡️
Steven D. Greydanus @decentfilms.bsky.social Film critic, Catholic deacon, theology teacher, father of 7. Not in that order. NYFCC member. Please follow/subscribe at greydanus.substack.com! Also at decentfilms.com
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. 🦃
BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social critic & essayist / my dog's name is Boswell
i have a newsletter: https://notebook.substack.com/
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Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social Writer, Film Curator 
Emily Maskell @emmaskell.bsky.social typing away for paper mag, bbc culture, w mag, vulture, gq, nylon, i-D • 📧:maskellem@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/EmilyMaskell
Hillary Busis @busis.bsky.social I work at Vanity Fair!
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Beatriz Izumino @biaizumino.bsky.social Escrevo a newsletter Maratonar e dou palpite no texto dos outros
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/autores/beatriz-izumino.shtml 
David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social blank check // the atlantic // hits different let’s go mets
John Wall @johnwall57.bsky.social Author: Streamliner (Raymond Loewy bio), retired journalist/higher ed flack (Penn State, Juniata College). Former film critic for Thomson News Service, arts writer. USAF veteran and current VA hospital volunteer
Nick Romano @nickromano.bsky.social Senior editor @ew.com I write about TV, movies, games. Vecna once called me “such a smart man.”
Carli Cutchin @carlicutchin.bsky.social Lies in bed. Watches TV. Writes stuff. Disabled and proud. Words in The Cincinnati Review, Ms. Magazine, Electric Literature, DAME, Business Insider, etc. 
Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com Filmmaker. Documentary. Art. GLIMMERAMA
Quiet girl in a loud dress. 👩🏻🦰🔥
All Rivers Spill🦞🦀Your Fat Friend🔮Seahorse🫃🏼Game of Thrones: The Last Watch 🐺Orion: The Man Who Would Be King⚡️The Great Hip Hop Hoax🎧Sound It Out 🪩& more
https://linktr.ee/Jeaniefinlay
Stephanie Goodman @sgoood.bsky.social NYT Film Editor and doxy fan. 
David O'Neill @oneillbooks.bsky.social Senior editor @bookforum; friend to animals. Work with me: http://david-oneill-editor.com
Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social Editor at The New York Times. Junior Parent in Connecticut. Oldest looking (but chronologically youngest) sibling from California.
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
Dr. Cindy Conaway @drcindyconaway.bsky.social Professor of Digital Communication and Media Studies at SUNY Empire State University. I study Seinfeld and Digital Humanities. 
Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social Senior writer at Vulture and New York Magazine.
Lindsey Bahr @ldbahr.bsky.social AP Film Writer
Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social Editorial Director, Features and Special Projects at WIRED.
Reyhan_harmanci@wired.com
Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social Vanity Fair correspondent. Author of Stealing the Show. Here, there and everywhere
Liveright @liveright.bsky.social Books that live, for 100 yrs and counting. Precocious offspring of @wwnorton.com. IG: @liverightbooks | FB/YT: @liverightpublishing | Twitter: @liverightpub | wwnorton.com/liveright
Cori Futrovsky @corifu.bsky.social Film PR
Simon Abrams @simonsaybrams.bsky.social Film Critic at Roger Ebert dot com, New York Times, New Yorker, Hollywood Reporter, Village Voice, The Wrap, Vanity Fair, and so on. Author of THE NORTHMAN: A CALL TO THE GODS (Insight Editions). Alt weekly kid. Let the monkey drive.
Gina Iaquinta @giaquinta.bsky.social senior editor @liverightpub
kelseybmurphy @kelseybmurphy.bsky.social Previously: Senior Editor at Viking Children’s Books. Also reader, writer, TV/movie/theater fan, and former UCB performer.
Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com Philadelphia, elections, baseball, databases. Dadge oak arborist. Movies from four years ago, and 104 years ago. https://letterboxd.com/rgodfrey/
Signal: rgo.99
Eliana Dockterman @dockterman.bsky.social Write about culture & society for TIME
Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social Occasional writer for Mashable, Bust, Ordinary Times, and others; author of "The Paris Bureau" 2020 DIO Press Inc, pathological reader, returned expat from Canada, New Yorker at the moment.- I Ilyse McKimmie @ilysemck.bsky.social Deputy Director, Sundance Institute Feature Film Program
Kelli Shapiro @kellishapiro.bsky.social Public historian & preservationist. PhD. Board member, CA Historic Route 66 Association. Author of two local history books in the "Images of America" series: Inland Empire and San Gabriel Valley Movie Theatres; Historic Movie Theatres of West Virginia
@katybrooks.bsky.social @katybrooks.bsky.social deputy editor @ vulture / nymag
Andy Adams @flakphoto.news Culture guy in Madison, Wisconsin. I run media at Outrider.org. In my free time, I publish https://www.flakphoto.news/. Do you like pictures? Read my newsletter!
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Mona Nicoara @monanicoara.bsky.social Documentary filmmaker, NYU film professor, in a committed relationship with reality. Kinda Romanian, kinda New Yorker. Here looking for all the people I liked on all those other platforms I no longer like.
Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social Modernism, film, fiction. Professor. Views my own.
Kerensa Cadenas @kerensa.bsky.social News Director @ PW, kcadenas@publishersweekly.com
Formerly: Thrillist, The Cut, Entertainment Weekly, Complex
Words In: Vanity Fair, GQ, Elle, Vogue, Indiewire
Aarik Danielsen (he/him) @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social Debut essay collection PIECES OF THE NIGHT forthcoming (Cornerstone Press, 2027)
Recovering newspaperman
Promised to Holly
#SFGiants forever
Wants to be with you alone and talk about the weather
https://aarikdanielsen.com
kerry cullen @kermichele.bsky.social mouse detective. HOUSE OF BETH out from Simon & Schuster in July 2025 & available for preorder now.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/House-of-Beth/Kerry-Cullen/9781668074596
Peter Mascuch @pmascuch.bsky.social English, American Studies, and Cinema Studies Prof at St. Joseph’s University of New York (Brooklyn & Long Island).
Happy husband of Andrea. Proud Dad of Hannah and Ben.
He/Him/His
Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social Editor at Columbia University Press. I acquire in Film and Media Studies, Journalism, and Literary Studies. Opinions my own. 
Brittany K. Allen @britt-kathryn.bsky.social staff writer at Literary Hub 🌹
actor, prosewright, playwright
Big Chill apologist
words in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Lampblack, Kenyon Review, Epiphany, etc.
Briallen Hopper @briallenhopper.bsky.social Author of HARD TO LOVE (Bloomsbury) and GILEAD REREAD (Columbia UP, forthcoming). Teaching at Queens College CUNY. Repped by Rob McQuilkin at MMQ&A.
Amy Kaufman @amykinla.bsky.social LA Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of the NYT bestseller "Bachelor Nation." My dog is named Riggins! https://linktr.ee/amykinla
Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social Newsletter editor at MS NOW. Part-time journalism teacher at
Georgetown School of Continuing Studies. Creator of Your First Byline. http://yourfirstbyline.substack.com (Teague is my middle name so I should be Beckwith on second reference.)
Raquel Laneri @raquellaneri.bsky.social Writer, editor, sometime violist. Fashion journalism at Parsons.
Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social Bert of the Intellect, Ernie of the Will
DC based, comms at @ucs.org (all opinions mine), @emtrap.bsky.social enthusiast, ambivalently Online, generally polite, still People Magazine's Seth D-est Man Alive. please don't argue in my notifications
Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social culture critic of sorts. apologies in advance for all the mom posts.
podcast: love to see it with @emmagray.bsky.social
substack: claireandemma.substack.com
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
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
@karinalongworth.bsky.social @karinalongworth.bsky.social 
Lucy Walker @walkerlucyg.bsky.social the toast of mayfair. film programmer. 
Quinzaine des Cinéastes @quinzaine.bsky.social Independent selection of the Cannes Film Festival, showcasing the most unique and visionary new cinema each year since 1969. Cannes 13 - 23 May 2026
Rebecca Keegan @thatrebecca1.bsky.social Hollywood Reporter Senior Film Editor, author of books on Young Frankenstein + James Cameron, Host of 'The Godfather, A Film We Can't Refuse.’
https://linktr.ee/thatrebecca
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/author/rebecca-keegan/
@soheilny.bsky.social @soheilny.bsky.social 
Mac Rogers @macrogers.bsky.social Playwright, audio dramatist, screenwriter, good time charlie. Listen to my audio dramas at gideon-media.com. He/him
Brent Lang @brentlang.bsky.social Executive Editor at Variety. Fan of dogs, movies, theater, eating out, and power naps. 
Jessica Reedy @jessicareedy.bsky.social Showrunner, NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast
Maya Daisy Hawke @mayadaisyhawke.bsky.social Editor : Navalny; Sugarcane, Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social Documentary Filmmaker | Geographer | Abolitionist | Goat person
Films include UNION, The Hottest August, Camperforce, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, Land of Destiny
Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social NYU.edu/orphanfilm
Saba @sabahamedy.bsky.social Culture & trends at Nbc / adjunct professor of journalism at USC. IG sbhamedy / Twitter💀saba_h. LA forever. 
@bitchuation.bsky.social @bitchuation.bsky.social “Never panic. Never give up.” Joan of Arc
Todd Gregory @toddgregory.bsky.social Senior staff editor at The New York Times. From the prairie part of the Prairie State. COYS (Views are my own, etc.)
Jamie Fisher @jamie-fisher.bsky.social culture goblin. research editor at NYT Magazine. author of Nobody Broke Your Heart: An Intimate Biography of Elliott Smith (out Aug. 25th!)
patreon + other links: https://solo.to/nobodybrokeyourheart
world’s best cats, except for your cats.
Robert Abele @robertabele.bsky.social I see movies, I see television. They're inside the room with me now. Freelance, LA Times. LA Film Critics Association -- President. Tennis obsessive. Leave me be when Hsieh Su-wei is playing.
Scott Bateman @scottbateman.bsky.social My new film 5002 Space Aliens is now streaming on AppleTV, Amazon, and more.
"Groundbreaking style!" -- FilmThreat. "Delicious!" — ScreenRant.
Lifetime Jeopardy! record: 1-1-0
http://5002spacealiens.com/
Abe El-Raheb / Editor & Writer @eldashraheb.bsky.social https://www.abeelraheb.com
Egyptian-Irish-American
Editor and Writer (WGA West)
Desperately trying to learn Spanish
We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
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!
gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social stop your cryin' it's alright
texas culture reporter for @chron.com
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Egan Reich @eganreich.bsky.social Former press director at the Labor Department; somehow purged twice by this ridiculous administration; writer of plays and one (1) real movie. DC
Eric Darling @thesmark88.bsky.social 
Karla with a K @karlarchivist.bsky.social Archivist in Philly. Library defender. Loves skeeball and soft pretzels. Theater costumer in a previous life. she/her
*I immediately block all engagement farming accounts*
Vicki Smith @eclecticmayhem.bsky.social Gen X Brit based in the USofA.
Avatar by @Taraocomics.bsky.social (thank you Tara!)
Banner is the target used by The Archers; I am nothing if not a product of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
The Clinton Street Theater @cstpdx.bsky.social Portland, Oregon's third or fourth best movie theater! cstpdx.com
Carly Gay Stepson @amcnal.bsky.social Writer for @allstonpudding.bsky.social, socialist, dog dad, lover of classy art & trashy wrestling, town dunce. often discussing Boston stuff. He/him. Bisexual. Free Palestine. Mask up 😷 ✝️