Anke Meijer @meijeranke.bsky.social Freelance journalist, serie-recensent (NRC, VPRO Gids), nieuwsbrief http://iliketowatch.substack.com, seriepodcast @skipintronl.bsky.social. Eerder correspondent in New York.
Filmlöw*innen @filmloewinrudel.bsky.social Hier schreibt das Rudel des feministischen Online-Filmmagazins FILMLÖWIN (www.filmloewin.de). Unterstützt unsere Arbeit hier: steady.page/de/filmloewin/about
Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social head of the Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine)/ Nobel Peace Prize 2022/ Democracy Defender Award of OSCE 2016
Ben Kempas @benkempas.com Docu filmmaker-turned-campaigner-turned-livestreamer at Film & Campaign Ltd. Impact campaign strategist for #TheOilMachine. Born @ 332ppm. Old German, new Scot, pro indy.
https://www.filmcampaign.org
FIFDH Geneva @fifdh.bsky.social The leading international event for #cinema & #humanrights I Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights | 5-14 March 2027 #fifdh27
Mama Cash @mamacashfund.bsky.social Mama Cash is the oldest international feminist fund. We support the pioneering & innovative activism of girls, women, trans & intersex people around the world.
Esther van Messel @esthervanmessel.bsky.social Feminism, Film, Entrepreneurship
Movies that Matter @moviesthatmatter.bsky.social Broadens views on human rights through film.
Upcoming festival: 20 - 28 March 2026 in The Hague.
Femke Halsema @femkehalsema.bsky.social 
Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com Writer, author, media historian.
Columns @ The Hollywood Reporter
News/Reviews @ MovieWeb
Media studies @ Marquette University
Books: The Warner Brothers; Hollywood Hates Hitler…
Adventures in the Archive newsletter: chrisyogerst.substack.com
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
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
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social Critic and author and occasional cut-up. Just a soul whose intentions are good. Books include "The World is Yours: The Story of 'Scarface'" and "Made Men: The Story of 'Goodfellas'.”
🏳️🌈 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/
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.
https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/
Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com Union Researcher. Historian/Scholar of media industries law. Maker of delicious foods, baseball enjoyer (Twins Daily / DiamonCentric / Baseball Prospectus contributor) plabuza @ gmail.
www.labuzamovies.com
Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social Author, critic, historian | 🖋 Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | 📕 The Curse of Queen Kelly | 📕 The Red Shoes | 📕 Pandora’s Box | ✉️ Weekly Film Bulletin | 💻 silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Associate Professor, University of Colorado
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. 
Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social Film Writer/Critic | ✍🏼 Variety, RogerEbert.com, Vanity Fair, TIME, W Mag, Filmmaker Mag etc. | NYFCC member | 2026 Mill Valley Film Fest Programmer | Dog lover… ♥️
Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social 3x nat'l award-winning writer, film critic, & historian @ http://FilmIntuition.com, Watch With Jen™ pod host, & author behind The Veronica Mars Book Kickstarter. Repped by Farley Chase.
Kristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social Journalist for hire. EIC The Film Maven. Bylines @latimes @goldenglobes @variety Author BUT HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK ROMANCE EDITION. Upcoming: WELCOME BOILS AND GHOULS (2027). ♿️ Repped by Falkin Literary.
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Silent Beauties @silentbeauties.bsky.social Blogger. Silent films. Art heals. History is a tool to improve the future and our decision making in the present time. Trying to make a difference.
Social media links: https://linktr.ee/silentbeauties
Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social Writer for hire | Baseball fan | Letterman-type | “One vulgar broad” | Protect trans kids | FUCK ICE | she/her
ajillblake.substack.com
https://ko-fi.com/ajillblake
Courtney Howard @lulamaybelle.bsky.social 🍅meter-approved film critic/ journo.
Member: LA Film Critics Association, Critics Choice Association
Writer: Variety, FreshFiction.tv.
Never met a dachshund I haven’t liked.
Jeremy Dauber @jeremydauber.bsky.social Professor at Columbia; writer of books; poster of thoughts about movies, books, comics, music, other stuff. Stoker-nominated author of AMERICAN SCARY; PRESS 1 FOR INVASION for middle-graders from Simon and Schuster OUT NOW!
Danielle Solzman 🗽🇺🇲✡️🕎🟦🎥 @solzyatthemovies.com Transgender. Solzy at the Movies. The Solzy Report. Dugout Dirt. Membership: Critics Choice, Galeca, AWFJ, OAFFC, OFCS, OFTA. Tomatometer, IBWAA. MPA accredited. http://www.solzyatthemovies.com
https://dugoutdirt.com/
https://buttondown.email/DanielleSATM
Brian Saur @bobfreelander.bsky.social Co-host of New Beverly’s Pure Cinema Podcast.
https://pca.st/podcast/1d88b970-d2b6-0134-ebcf-4114446340cb
https://thenewbev.com/blog/category/podcasts/
Runs Just The Discs Podcast + YouTube.
Letterboxd adherent: https://letterboxd.com/rupertpupkin/
Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social I wrote Sony's getTV blog for 6 years, created Game Show Network's blog, was an arts reporter for NYC weekly The Villager, and have contributed to Slate, 4 books, and many blogs and podcasts. Currently digital marketing for NYC nonprofit New Plaza Cinema.
Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com
J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social https://www.johnconnorlikeintheterminator.com
For alerts when something new drops: https://forms.gle/neT79ZHa9BPjGh2m9
USC Cinema & Media Studies
but opinions my own
Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social Film Historian and Critic. Writer for TCM. Quelle Movies, Out of the Past and #CineHistorians. Passionate about cinema.
www.raquelstecher.com
Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Archive Stan. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Alisa Perren @aperren.bsky.social Media studies prof. Director of Industry Relations for the Radio-Television-Film Department at UT-Austin. Opinions are my own.
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.
Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social Registrar by day, movie watcher by night. #ClassicMovies Blogger #Películas She/Her #ClassicHollywood #BanAssaultWeapons #TCMParty original
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.
Katie Bird @arthousedirectr.bsky.social Video Essayist, Independent Film Scholar, Lapsed Academic. Hollywood Film Labor and Film History.
Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social Owner of Comet Over Hollywood since 2009. Gidgetologist. Dynasty fan. Chad & Jeremy enthusiast.
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
Kliph Nesteroff @classicshowbiz.bsky.social I write books. You consider reading them. “Sorry, We’re Funny,” a History of Canadian Comedy, will be released in late 2026.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777133/sorry-were-funny-by-kliph-nesteroff/
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
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.
Kellee aka IrishJayhawk66 @kelleepratt.bsky.social #ClassicFilm Teacher, #TCMParty original, #TCM Ambassador, Outspoken & Freckled in the Sunflower State #RockChalk #MasterGardener kelleepratt.com
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)
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.
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.
Mistress of the Reel™ @sleepyserenade.bsky.social lover of Dean Martin & the moving image 📼 Theatre Manager 📽️ Projectionist 🎞️
Kelli Marshall @kellimarshall.bsky.social Chicago and movies, one tour at a time: chicagomovietours.com. Ph.D. Transplant from Louisiana. Hardcore Gene Kelly fan.
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
Nikki @dorvid4.bsky.social Bed person not bad person.
Journalist & Photographer. 🔵
Movies • TV • Food • Naps• Dogs • Travel • #Bravo Shows • Comedy • #TCM
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)
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
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
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!
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
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
eric rolland @ejrolland.bsky.social 
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
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
Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite
Kimberly Pierce @kpierce624.bsky.social Critic. Archivist. Author.
Co-Chair Denver Film Critics.
https://piercingpopculture.substack.com/
@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. 
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
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.
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
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/
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!
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 
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.
Janet Maslin @janetmaslin.bsky.social Board President, Jacob Burns Film Center. Longtime NYT critic.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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/
Calvin Kemph @calvinkemph.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of The Twin Geeks, Seattle Film Critics Society member.
thetwingeeks.com
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/
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
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.
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
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
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🏳️🌈
Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social film & lit scholar, CUNY 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).
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
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
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
Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social Genre Lecturer, Writer, Journo & Prod, EIC of @nighttidemag.bsky.social: Diverse Horror Perspectives, Host of From Inside the House Pod, Member of Nyx Horror, 13 Minutes of Horror for SHUDDER
NY-er in London
https://nighttidemag.com/
http://momoshaty.com
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/