Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing @swenryan.bsky.social Freelance film critic, lafilmcritics.bsky.social Secretary/Events Chair, list obsessive. Host of Catalyst and Witness, co-host of 24 hours don't make an ideology. USC JD, CAMS MA.
Tom Hall @tomhall.bsky.social Artistic Director
Montclair Film Cinemas + Festival
Husband, Dad, U of Mich & Flint Central alum, LFC, Swag 4 Life for WFMU, true believer in empathy.
backrowmanifesto.substack.com
Tim Grierson @timgrierson.bsky.social Senior U.S. Critic for Screen International. Member: LAFCA and NSFC. Frequently in the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Vulture, the A.V. Club and RogerEbert.com. Author of "This Is How You Make a Movie." Q&A moderator. Contact: timothygrierson@gmail.com
Scott Macaulay @scottmacaulay.bsky.social Film producer (“The Assistant,” “What Happened Was…”, “Raising Victor Vargas,” “Gummo”) at Forensic Films. Co-founder, Filmmaker Magazine. Former Programming Director of The Kitchen.
Adrian Parsons @adrianparsons.com Software Engineer searching for next thing. Previously at Capsule8→Sophos, Etsy, and Meetup
Mapping vacant lots at empty.nyc
Ben Kenigsberg @benkenigsberg.bsky.social Film critic and journalist intermittently on social media
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
@justinstew.bsky.social @justinstew.bsky.social Please don't make me write a bio.
chris @yrpalchris.bsky.social there's nothing more embarrassing than to be alive
Victor Morton @vjmfilms.bsky.social Raised on Blackpool postcards and Benny Hill, religious nut, Film Nerddom's Jake LaMotta, Japan WW2 apologist, loyal adherent to the disco movement, Deplorable. I block headshrinkers.
Jeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social Writes about extreme weather & wildfires, nature & public lands, and adaptation & resilience for Heatmap.news | Hiking, running, mountains, boats, nonfiction books, long movies, sleep deprivation (baby) |📍 Seattle/Queens
Olli Sulopuisto @olli.sulopuis.to A hard-working lazy bastard. Journalist, nerd, podcast-ukkeli, lifelong internet tinkerer. Signal: dst.69
Adam Villani @adamnvillani.bsky.social EAA/IBEW Local 11 member, City Planner, SoCal. Dad of two kids, game show contestant, Democrat, pop culture enthusiast, Dodger fan, YIMBY.
@nictate.bsky.social @nictate.bsky.social
akivacrawl @akivacrawl.bsky.social
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
Nels Bangerter @nels.bsky.social doc film editor
nelsbangerter.com
Dan Lander @danlander.bsky.social
Kent M. Beeson @kentmbeeson.bsky.social Creator of AGAINST THE '70S (https://againstthe70s.blot.im/), a blog about mashing together '70s cinema & today's TTRPGs, and manager of The Best Album Brackets (@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social).
James Hansen @jpjameshansen.bsky.social Curator of Light Matter. Associate Professor of Art History at NYSCC (Alfred University). Experimental film, video art, opera, installation, sculpture. Cincinnati/Ohio (State) sports.
Darren Hughes @longpauses.bsky.social Occasional writer and film programmer with a day job. Cinema Scope, Filmmaker Magazine, MUBI Notebook. Artistic Director, FILM FEST KNOX. www.longpauses.com
Atli Sigurjónsson @atlinator.bsky.social I like movies and stuff.
Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social American in Aotearoa New Zealand. Film editor, filmmaker (Gut Instinct [2024], Jake [2014], etc), musician (The Sea Plus), helpful guy.
Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.social A&E Editor/Film Critic cityweekly.net
Disneylander
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Rated TV-14 for adult themes and language
https://letterboxd.com/ScottRenshaw/
Dr. Donna Bowman @donnadb.bsky.social Theologian. Knitter. Mom. UCA Schedler Honors College. Prayer shawl, pussyhat and pandemic mask researcher. TV critic (BB, BCS). Atlanta Braves and Ohio Worms fan. Bloblobber main.
Matt Prigge @mattprigge.bsky.social Senior Editor at The Week plus NYU prof. Bylines: Village Voice (rip), Uproxx, Vulture, Guardian, Metro (rip), Philly Weekly. mattprigge at gmail dot com https://www.mattprigge.com
Michael Sicinski @msicism.bsky.social Views expressed here do not reflect the views of my employer. My employer has no views.
Corey Atad @coreyatad.com Toronto-based freelance writer @ The Star, GQ, Defector, The Baffler, Gawker, Esquire, Hazlitt. Air Bud admirer. Favourite cheese: Gouda. coreyatad@gmail.com / www.coreyatad.com
Isaac Davidson @ingmarblergman.bsky.social Motion Picture Publicity @mubi
Nina @ninaolive.bsky.social Don’t worry about it
Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social Cinema / film art in China, Hong Kong, & Taiwan especially independent films & films from within the Chinese borderlands (Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong…). And I create English subtitles for Chinese-language films.
Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social Daily newsletter/column, Today in Culture, free sub @ Newcity.com. Film critic. Photographer. Editor. raypride.substack.com; [my name] everywhere / weekly film column newcityfilm.com
Blake Williams @astrostic.bsky.social
Mark Pittillo @markcp.com
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/
Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social Film critic at Vulture, co-host of the Critical Darlings podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critical-darlings/id1885681327
Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social Film/TV writer. Co-host: The Next Picture Show podcast. Author of The Reveal newsletter (thereveal.film) with Keith Phipps. I got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome.
Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social Freelancer for hire. You know me from: The A.V. Club, The Dissolve. Posts about food, TV, movies, the Braves, pretty scenery. Husband of @donnadb.bsky.social .
Vikram Murthi @fauxbeatpoet.bsky.social A "reasonable man" (get off my case) / Contributing writer @thenation / Editor @downtime / Also @reverseshot @filmmakermag @vulture / vikrammurthi1 at gmail
Steve Carlson @lcosgrove.bsky.social The lonely Magellan of disreputable exploitation cinema. Death merchant and amateur onion peeler. I like things that look like mistakes. He/him.
Jason Overbeck @bentclouds.bsky.social Editor/Assistant Editor working in film and advertising.
https://letterboxd.com/bentclouds/
Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social another world isn't possible
Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social I may live badly, but at least I don’t have to work to do it.
https://www.patreon.com/gemko