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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
Adam Hyman @adamhy.bsky.social Director of LA Filmforum; documentary worker, native Angeleno, reader of history and music, own too many records
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
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Preet Bharara @preetbharara.bsky.social Patriotic American. Former US Attorney, SDNY. Banned by Putin. Fired by Trump.
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
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Just Security @justsecurity.org Forum on law, rights, and security. Editorial Board includes professors, top civil society attorneys, former senior government officials.
Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social Editor at Barrelhouse. Professor at Temple University. Union rep. Author of Notes from the Road (Awst Press). World’s #1 Cat Dad.
Michael Kosta @michaelkosta.bsky.social MichaelKosta.Komi.io
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social editor/writer. games, travel, theme parks, music, movies, etc. recently at Kotaku. writing the Moon College Football Weekends guide (2028), and writing about theme parks at https://easily-amused.beehiiv.com. ex-Paste, ex-AV Club, could be ex-your site too.
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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social https://fragments.video/
Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social A delightfully crooked publication about movies. @jasondashbailey.bsky.social, editor-in-chief.
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Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social Editor of ScreenCrush.com, Host of Filmspotting: SVU, and Author of ‘Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever.’ Next: ‘Funny Business,’ a book on 21st century Hollywood comedies. Available on October 6.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
Elliot Williams @elliotwilliams.bsky.social CNN legal analyst watching all my favorite sports teams lose spectacularly. Pre-order my book FIVE BULLETS at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052/five-bullets-by-elliot-williams/
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Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social New here. Professor of cinema arts; director of Cary Comes Home Festival; co-founder of Angela Carter Society; chief editor of Screenworks; filmmaker, lover of cinemas & their curtains. #BristolCityOfFilm Views my own. https://linktr.ee/charlottecrofts
Jemma Saunders (Penny) @jemsaunders1.bsky.social Film & TV placement person by day, audio-visual PhD student researching Birmingham's representation on screen by night (both UoB). Videographic criticism, documentary, TV, history, locations, employability... and being a Mum.
Queline (kikikrazed) @queline.bsky.social 📺 Video essayist: BFI, GKIDS, youtube.com/@kikikrazed
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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social Historian, Digital Humanist, Associate Prof of 20th century US History @ Uni of Reading, Visiting Fellow @ British Library Eccles Centre, Editor @ DHQuarterly, US-UK Fulbright alumni
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EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu Independent EU-focused NGO whose mission is to raise awareness on #disinformation & contribute to a better information landscape.
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
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Peter Dykeman-Bermingham @pad-b0.bsky.social
Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
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Jiří Anger @jirianger.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ Queen Mary University of London
Media theory ~ archival studies ~ videographic criticism
Author of Towards a Film Theory from Below
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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)
farah @farahonfilm.bsky.social just one more thing… 🇩🇿 curating, editing, & writing abt film, TV, & culture
juby @piratejuby.bsky.social they/she | 27 | no minors 🔞| here to scream about gay pirates 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🥹
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Cineaste Magazine @cineastemagazine.bsky.social America's Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema
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Devin McGrath-Conwell @devintwonames.bsky.social Writer, lapsed film critic, and a certified caricature of myself.
Probably thinking about Dale Cooper ☕️
Josh Jackson @joshjackson.bsky.social President, Paste Media
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Paste Magazine @pastemagazine.bsky.social The heart and soul of music journalism.
Evelyn Kreutzer @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social Film/media scholar, video essay maker, feminist
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Postdoc at USI Lugano
Previously at Film University Babelsberg
PhD from Northwestern University
Kyle Morse @kylemorse.bsky.social Deputy ED, @techoversight.bsky.social. Tours: American Bridge, Capitol Hill, and Dem campaigns.
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Barbara Zecchi @barbarazecchi.bsky.social Film Studies professor at the University of Massachusetts. Cat lady with dogs. Videoessayist trained at Middlebury College. Author of books on women filmmakers. Co-editor of [in]Transition. Member of the Film Academy of Spain. From Venice.
Jaap Kooijman @jaapkooijman.bsky.social Associate professor Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Academic director ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis), author of Fabricating the Absolute Fake and De muziekfabriek, co-editor of The Richard Dyer Reader. www.absolutefake.com
MZS.Press @mzspress.bsky.social The official account of MZS.press, online store and publishing imprint. Created by author, critic, journalist and filmmaker Matt Zoller Seitz. Business + account are run by Judith St. Germain. We're biblio-cinephiles who ❤️ the arts & artists.
Zeteo @zeteo.com Unfiltered news. Bold opinions. A new media organization from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
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Dana Linssen @danalinssen@mastodon.nl @danalinssen.bsky.social film critic NRC & Filmkrant, time traveller, curator FilmForward Vrijplaats, Slow Criticism Project, selection Berlinale Talents, mentor BT Press, teaching ArtEZ & HKU University of the Arts, Postcard Underground
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Jonathan Collins @joncollins.bsky.social PhD candidate at Charles & Leiden University researching and lecturing on the Far-Right. Netnography and everything digital culture. VOX-Pol Next Gen Network
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Graham Fuller @grahamfuller.bsky.social Film Editor at The Arts Desk. Editorial Associate at Cineaste.
Mike Scollins @mikescollins.bsky.social From Marshfield MA. Writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers and BRIAN. Love horror movies. Usually have to pee. He/Him
G. Kevin Lally @gkevinlally.bsky.social Editor at Cineaste, former executive editor at Boxoffice and Film Journal International, author of Wilder Times: The Life of Billy Wilder, www.KevinLallyonFilm.com
jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social film & culture & TV critic • associate programmer @mixnyc.bsky.social • repped by marya spence (janklow & nesbit)
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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
Monica Castillo @mcastimovies.bsky.social The A.V. Club film critic, programmer, dancer, dog person.
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… ♥️
Katie Rife @rifewithkatie.bsky.social You’ve seen me around. Writing all over: Letterboxd, Indiewire, AV Club, Vulture, Ebert, etc.
Jason Gorber @filmfest.bsky.social Editor-In-Chief/ Chief Critic ThatShelf.com | POVMagazine.com | CBC Metro Morning | CBC Radio | RogerEbert.com | Member: TFCA, Critics Choices, OFCS. Rotten Tomatoes.
Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social With an E and not a A | EIC of self-pub indie outlet Rendy Reviews (est. 2012) | freelance film/tv journalist | bylines: RogerEbert, Den of Geek, Yahoo Ent, Autostraddle, Gold Derby, etc.
NellMinow @nellminow.bsky.social Movie critic, shareholder advocate #corpgov #movies she/her/mom www.authory.com/NellMinow I stand for: protecting the environment, reproductive health, dignity and respect for all except bullies, grifters, and haters. I lack decorum, per Congress.
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.
Christy Lemire @christylemire.bsky.social Film critic, Breakfast All Day co-host, FilmWeek on LAist, 1986 Wheel of Fortune Teen Week champion, Nicolas' mom, runner, sober ⚓️
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Lee Cronin's Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social Writer/Critic/Meat Popsicle -- assistant editor @ RogerEbert.com, editor in chief The Spool. Words: Block Club Chicago, Consequence.
lauren 🎬 @laurenjcoates.bsky.social entertainment journalist/lottie matthews acolyte. depaul '24. GALECA. 🖖🏻💌 ljcoates5@gmail.com
Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social Writer. I review films at Ebert. Essays at Criterion, monthly column at Liberties Journal. NYFCC / NSFC member. I’ve been blogging at sheilaomalley.com since 2002. I have a newsletter: https://sheilaomalley.substack.com/ I write a LOT about Elvis. TCB! ⚡
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social Cinéaste maudit. Educator. Dad of 2. Quinquagenarian. Man of Appetites. Film writer. UCLA '94, M.F.A. '99. 2nd gen native Angeleno. Pro-union. Anti-fascist. Clearly not the actor from NICKEL BOYS. He/Him.
Collin Souter @collinsouter.bsky.social Film critic, CFCA member, teacher, co-host of the Christmas Movies Actually podcast, U2 fan, blu-ray collector.
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alisha mughal @alishamgl.bsky.social journalist and film critic in Toronto; words in Film Daze, RogerEbert[dot]com, Catapult, Exclaim!, The Asian Cut; book on The Crow out via ECW
Peter “Cloaked In Gucci & Scandal” Sobczynski @petersob13.bsky.social Film critic at RogerEbert.com, TheSpool.com, Auteurist Class at Substack and the Movie Madness podcast. An enthusiast of De Palma, T Swift and Milla J. Programmer at the Chicago Critics Film Festival. A rogue and a bon vivant.
Zachary Lee @zacharylee.bsky.social editor, critic, journalist | bylines in rogerebert.com, The Chicago Reader, Block Club Chicago, RNS, Dread Central, Sojourners, Think Christian | CFCA Member
ciara moloney @ciaramoloney.bsky.social film and TV critic, at current affairs and other places. eclectic academic. phd on martin mcdonagh + diaspora. intermittent podcaster. into sitcoms, slasher movies, and martin and lewis.
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The Lever @levernews.com Award-winning, reader-supported media outlet holding power accountable. LeverNews.com
Andrew Perez @andrewperez.bsky.social Editing politics at Zeteo. Contributing writer at Rolling Stone. Living in Maine. aperez.03 on signal.
David Sirota @davidsirota.com Founder/editor-in-chief, @LeverNews.com; Oscar-nominated for Don't Look Up. Spouse of @emilyforco.bsky.social
Carlos Maza @carlosmaza.bsky.social Marxist Pig. Queer Scum.
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John Knefel @johnknefel.bsky.social senior writer at media matters (stuff here is my own opinion etc, likes are bookmarks)
audrey bowler @audbowler.bsky.social libra moon. digitally directing @ media matters
Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social I research and create educational videos about misinformation, propaganda, climate change, and sometimes (unfortunately) AI
Pete Tsipis @petetsipis.bsky.social Attacking right-wing media
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Noah VanDowe @vandowe.bsky.social Media analyst @MMFA // Second fastest hedgehog on the planet
I write about liars & propagandists in right-wing media -- and how they use MMA & the UFC as a cultural tool
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Reed McMaster @mcmasterreed.bsky.social Media Analyst at Media Matters For America. Views are my own.
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social we’re all transsexuals now
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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social LGBTQ Journalist, Media Analyst and Disinformation/Extremism Researcher | They/Them | former Media Matters, DemGovs | Queer Witch | Bobo Waggins 🐾 ❤️ 2014-2026
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GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics @dorianawards.bsky.social Over 550 experts giving you the Q+ eye on 🎞️ film , 📺 TV & 🎭 Broadway/Off-Broadway's best via the 🏆 Dorian Awards. Also find us @DorianAwards on Instagram, Threads, Facebook and LinkedIn, and at GALECA on YouTube.