Kristen Fuhs @kristenfuhs.bsky.social Professor and Chair of the Media Arts department @ Woodbury University. Co-editor of Docalogue
Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social Social work academic at University of Manchester, Morgan Centre https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/ and Creativity, Health & Wellbeing Lead for Creative Manchester https://www.creative.manchester.ac.uk 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
FarzanehHolasu @farzanehebh.bsky.social Film and Media/Feminist Historiography/ stardom/ affective performance labor/Archives
🎬🎭📚Michigan State University📍
MUSE of Tragedy🐈 Coffeeholic ☕️
🎶Unapologetic self-centered subject 🧘🏻♀️
🎭Giggle at the funeral
David A Gerstner @dagerstner.bsky.social Film scholar, writer, teacher, cinéaste, chevalier, etc.
https://www.csi.cuny.edu/campus-directory/david-gerstner
https://wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814350201/
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dispelling-the-stink-of-love-on-the-ken-ification-of-rainer-w
Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social Indolence capable of energies. I teach and write about various things, mostly stuff on screens. McGill, English. He/him.
@carloskase.bsky.social @carloskase.bsky.social 
Melissa Benton @missybeez.bsky.social Find me anywhere oceanside. Lover of new experiences, reading, writing, documentaries, daydreaming, mammals & coffee. Passionate about life, music, art & architecture.
Of course I’m a Democrat.
Hiding for the next four years.🏝️🌟🧚♀️
Kuba Mikurda @kubamikurda.bsky.social Filmmaker and film scholar. He directed documentaries "Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk" (2018), "Escape to the Silver Globe" (2021) and "Solaris Mon Amour"(2023). He teaches at the Film School in Lodz.
Rosa @prollywillquit.bsky.social Hoosier, Teamster, I like books, movies and TV, and wandering around very defined trails in State Parks. Go Fever! Go Pacers! Go Pirates!
Dr. Mel Rozalia @drmelissameade.bsky.social Ethnographies of inequality, digital media + tech, labor, environment, economic decline, collective memory, identity.
Film Trace @filmtrace.bsky.social A podcast tracing films, genres, themes, and more from conception to production all the way to release, reception, and legacy. Hosts: Dan in Chicago & Chris in Minneapolis. https://film-trace.captivate.fm/episodes
April D Miller @admiller.bsky.social I’m a teaching Professor at the Honors College at ASU. Former Associate Prof. at U Northern Colorado. I focus on early film history and horror and science fiction film, especially representations of crime and trans/humanism.
Kian @falseflorimell.bsky.social Chicago
Nicole Parks @nicoleparksviolin.bsky.social (she/her)
C, for cats. I love. Cats.
Violinist, Violist, Conductor, Educator
Semiosis Quartet
nicoleparksviolin.com
semiosisquartet.com
Being Reese @beingreese.bsky.social {Ree-se} n. A connoisseur of all things relating to | books 📚 | politics 🗳 | education 🍎 | & coffee ☕️ 👉🏾 Owner of w i t t y w i s e d e s i g n s on etsy 🩷
https://linktr.ee/BeingReese
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
@juliakline.bsky.social @juliakline.bsky.social Single cat lady in Chicago.
Virgo.
Warrior for justice.
Consultant, coach, author & podcaster.
(My expertise = how to apply Restorative Justice to salesmanship and other facets of business)
Jenny Boylan 🦞 @jennyboylan.bsky.social Author of 19 Books.
Barnard/Columbia prof.
President, PEN America.
Former chair, GLAAD.
Pizzaiola.
Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com Writer, author, media historian.
Columns @ The Hollywood Reporter, LA Times
News/Reviews @ MovieWeb
Media studies @ Marquette University
Books: The Warner Brothers; Hollywood Hates Hitler…
Adventures in the Archive newsletter: chrisyogerst.substack.com
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
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'.”
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/
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.
Subscribe to my site: http://www.thefilmmaven.com
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
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
Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social Owner of Comet Over Hollywood since 2009. Gidgetologist. Dynasty fan. Chad & Jeremy enthusiast.
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/
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
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
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
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. 
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.
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 
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
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
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
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/
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🏳️🌈
Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social Writer and film historian 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
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.
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...
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
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
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
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
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_.
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
Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social scholar of art/cinema/media
https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/matthew-noble-olson.html
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 only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
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.
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/
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.
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
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).
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
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.
Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social Researching modernism, queer networks, literature and silent cinema 📚🎞️ writing about the POOL group 🌊 teaching film and poetry. She/her.
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
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.
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