Michael Vann: Orca 5th Columnist
Anti-fascist surfer, grappler, & historian. "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt", other words in Jacobin and elsewhere, & mumbled podcast musings as a host on New Books and guest on Long Reads, Southeast Asia Crossroads, Napalm in the Morning, Bungacast, AmPrest.
@bobfreelander.bsky.social
Co-host of New Beverly’s Pure Cinema Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/show/4xbAl28Rnh9la3khRm09lv?si=hh0-clEcSXiDgea5mpDh5A Runs Just The Discs Podcast + YouTube channel Letterboxd adherent: https://letterboxd.com/rupertpupkin/
@willmckinley.bsky.social
Old movie and TV weirdo. I wrote Sony's getTV blog for 6 years, created “Game Show Insider” for GameShowNetwork.com, was an arts reporter for the NYC weekly The Villager for 3 years, and have contributed to Slate, 4 books, and many blogs and podcasts.
@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
@jdconnor.bsky.social
https://www.johnconnorlikeintheterminator.com For alerts when something new drops: https://forms.gle/neT79ZHa9BPjGh2m9
@raquelstecher.bsky.social
Film Historian and Critic. Writer for TCM. Co-host of the #CineHistorians podcast. Passionate about world cinema. www.raquelstecher.com
@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
@noahgittell.bsky.social
Film critic/sportswriter/troubador/comic philosopher. Seen in The New York Times, The Ringer, The Guardian, The Atlantic, LA Review of Books.
@citizenscreen.bsky.social
Registrar by day, movie watcher by night. #ClassicMovies Blogger #Películas She/Her #ClassicHollywood #BanAssaultWeapons #TCMParty original
@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.
@arthousedirectr.bsky.social
Video Essayist, Independent Film Scholar, Lapsed Academic. Hollywood Film Labor and Film History.
@hollywoodcomet.bsky.social
Owner of Comet Over Hollywood since 2009. Gidgetologist. Dynasty fan. Chad & Jeremy enthusiast.
@justinrawlins.bsky.social
Prof Media/Film | Author: Imagining the Method http://bit.ly/43QVOa4 | Research: acting, celebrity, screen histories, Arctic media | he/him
@classicshowbiz.bsky.social
I write books. You consider reading them. The History of Canadian Comedy will be published by Penguin Random House in 2026. oldshowbiz.tumblr.com
@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
@kelleepratt.bsky.social
#ClassicFilm Teacher, #TCMParty original, #TCM Ambassador, Outspoken & Freckled in the Sunflower State #RockChalk #MasterGardener kelleepratt.com
@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.
@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.
@sleepyserenade.bsky.social
lover of Dean Martin & the moving image 📼 Theatre Manager 📽️ Projectionist 🎞️
@kellimarshall.bsky.social
Chicago and movies, one tour at a time: chicagomovietours.com and (new!) chimovietours.bsky.social. Transplant from Louisiana. Ph.D. Hardcore Gene Kelly fan.
@ashleyrsmith.bsky.social
PhD in Screen Cultures from Northwestern | Writing on horror, culture & race | Academic Consultant at Cut-Throat Women Digital Humanities Database | True crime & media trash lover | Opinions are mine | Formerly @thehorrorfemme on Twitter
@dorvid4.bsky.social
Bed person not bad person. Journalist & Photographer. 🔵 Movies • TV • Food • Naps• Dogs • Travel • #Bravo Shows • Comedy • #TCM
@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)
@dsl89.bsky.social
Staff Editor at PEOPLE.com. Lover of Star Wars, movies, music and comics. MA native living in Nashville. Hofstra alum. Opinions are my own and do not represent the views of PEOPLE
@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
@tscherne.org
Historian/Librarian, teaching history at SNHU and UArizona, podcast host of New Books in Film, born in Cleveland, but now livin' the life in Appalachia!
@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
@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
@ejrolland.bsky.social
@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
@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
@kpierce624.bsky.social
Film Critic @geekgirlauthority.bsky.social. Co-Chair @denverfilmcritics.bsky.social. Member @oaffc.bsky.social. Storyteller and film fan. She/Her Host- Piercing Pop Culture (Everywhere You Get Podcasts!) Co-Host: Rocky Mountain Rewind
@sayanniething.bsky.social
culture writer, editor @ LARB, mother in the DC suburbs // here for the nuanced takes, the good faith arguments, and the jokes
@chutry.bsky.social
Media studies professor and political activist splitting time between Raleigh, NC, and Quincy, MA. Author of three books. Chihuahua wrangler.
@kfortmueller.bsky.social
Media industries, labor, and unions. Author of Below the Stars & Hollywood Shutdown (both UTX, 2021), Co-editor of Hollywood Unions (Rutgers, 2025), co-writing with @mirandabanks.bsky.social, co-organizing CP25 Assoc. Prof @GSU
@michaelsocolow.bsky.social
Communication & Journalism, University of Maine. 2019 Fulbright Scholar, University of Canberra. https://cmj.umaine.edu/faculty-staff/michael-j-socolow/
@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!
@awolverton.bsky.social
Librarian, reader, writer, film lover. Author of MEN DON'T READ. https://andywolverton.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/@journeysindarknessandlight5775/videos
@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. Forthcoming book SOFIA COPPOLA from Greenfinch/Quercus Nov 2025.
@ptklein.com
Film historian and cultural critic. Radically optimistic. Writing about why we watch movies at www.howtoreadmovies.com. He/Him/His.
@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.
@abradschwartz.bsky.social
Historian of Media, Fake News, and Propaganda. Author/Co-Author of ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER; SCARFACE AND THE UNTOUCHABLE; BROADCAST HYSTERIA. History PhD Candidate at Princeton.
@chellestrat.bsky.social
High School History teacher - Model UN - GSTA 🏳️🌈 - 2021 Maine History Teacher of the Year - she/her - all opinions are my own
@benspky.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.com
Film Critic / Author / Screenwriter (he/they) Behind the Scenes of Indie Film Marketing OUT NOW! Cinematic Worldbuilding (in progress) https://FilmSnobbery.com
@tommykrasker.bsky.social
Husband to @philipchaffin.bsky.social. 🌈 Daddy to Gregory. 🐶 I run the record label PS Classics, and post 1/3 pop culture, 1/3 politics and 1/3 puppy pics. #FilmSky 📽️ http://thatsallsiknow.blogspot.com
@calvinkemph.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief of The Twin Geeks, Seattle Film Critics Society member. thetwingeeks.com
@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/