I make Blu-rays and UHDs (and DVDs too, sometimes)
Author/speaker on film. Wrote the BFI book "100 Bible Films". Also has soft spots for Italian cinema, silent movies, Pasolini, Rossellini, Straub/Huillet & HItchcock. Love a good podcast. NFP data geek by day.
AHRC funded PhD at QMUL and BFI National Archive researching British film stars 1920 - 1970. Case studies: Jessie Matthews, Valerie Hobson, Moira Shearer, Julie Christie ✨
Writer and journalist in FT, Guardian, Slate, New York Times, Prospect etc. First novel, DEEP DOWN, out now. I don't like this any more than you do
Features journalist - NYTimes, Financial Times, Telegraph. On a book break.
https://rcwlitagency.com/clients/helen-barrett
Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Writer, curator, mentor, coach, artist. Imprint co-director of MAI Press, Punctum. Repped @portyliterary. Queer gardener. Certified DISCO DIVA (IYKYK). I do queer feminist film/art things and fight for disability justice.
Managing editor Sight and Sound | commissions features and Opening Scenes front section | author of the Natural History column 📖 🖋 🎞 🐈 | Opinions all mine
Works for the NHS. Geek. Likes history, politics, Palestine, cats, music, TV, films, ballet, wine, photography, PS5, science, astronomy, opera and books
My pinterest page - https://uk.pinterest.com/moonbootica/
Remainer Ex-Bookie and film nerd. Wherever I am, would rather be in a cinema.
Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
British-born Chinese film critic. 👨👩👧👦 OAFFC, Rotten Tomatoes, London Film Critics Circle, OFCS, IFCS, Cherry Picks
Website: muckrack.com/katie-smith-wong
Right let’s give this place a go. Film Tennis Politics.
Freelance Film Scholar l Writer & International Curator of South Asian Cinema I Currently writing BFI Film Classics monograph on Mani Kaul's Uski Roti (Bloomsbury)
https://moviemahal.net/publications/
https://www.bfi.org.uk/profile/omar-ahmed
Hey it’s me, Blorko! Films, Cannes Film Festival, horror, independent cinema, Asian and South American films. Favourite films: Suspiria (2018), Memoria and Lisando Alonso’s entire filmography
LAST aisle seat on the left.
Emphasis on the FIRST syllable.
Gateshead-born London-dwelling arts journalist, film reviewer for The Crack Magazine, MDANT, leftist, cyclist, reference understander, fox enthusiast, toiler at the content coalface, severyanin, liker of nice things, ‘good hair'.
Archivist at British Film Institute Special Collections
Also working on Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible
https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk
@womensscreenwork.bsky.social
Assistant features editor for The Guardian. Writer on culture high and low, tech, film, TV, architecture, arts, race, environment, etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/steverose
Digital Production at BFI. Just as likely to post about other stuff. Film, architecture, art, design etc.
BFI Digital Production Editor | ✍🏻 Sight and Sound, Empire, Time Out, NME and more | Member of London Critics’ Circle (Film section) | Q&A host | Spurs season-ticket holder (block 422) |
Blue skies and new horizons. Take me there.
Sub-editor at Sight and Sound, Time Out, Vittles, 10 Magazine and The Face. Manc Jew. Bowie nerd. MCFC. 🖖
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Greenwich. Researcher of Zatoichi movies, Japanese films and horror cinema. Part-time film critic (open to writing offers). All views and opinions shared are my own.
Assistant Professor, Social Work, University of Warwick 📚
Host of @top100pod.bsky.social 🎙️
Bylines in Second Sight Films, Fangoria, the BFI, Total Film (RIP) & others 🎬
Screenwriter 🖊️
Views own 🧐
Film Journalist, Video Essayist/Editor, Festival Programmer
Sight & Sound, LWLies, BFI, NFTS, LFF, RSIFF & more
https://vimeo.com/user11355665
“Seemed that he was busy doing something close to nothing but different than the day before." His dad, via Prince
Writer / Director / Producer: KENNY DALGLISH, 2073, AMY, SENNA, DIEGO MARADONA, Mindhunter, The Warrior, Far North, CREATURE, FEDERER: 12 Final Days, The Sheep Thief, Force Feeding in Guantánamo + Yasiin Bey. More soon…
Professional haver of takes
Film and media publisher for Bloomsbury books + BFI.
Chinese (London based) Film Critic & Journalist & Cinéphile. 📧: yhs20010713@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/andyyan
I write stuff (i Paper, Empire, Sight & Sound, Guardian, Line of Best Fit, Indicator Blu-ray). I like old movies, old books, old buildings and new music. Rep’d by The North Lit Agency.
Guardian film critic. My new Audible Original drama MERCY starring Joanna Scanlan is out now: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0GGTQ9ZBY?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp
day — working in travel content • night — writing about film at indiewire, bfi, the guardian, bbc culture, empire + elsewhere 🌙
Film critic, lecturer, programmer. Mainly about music, movies, art, politics. Views my own. Writes at greater length at geoffandrew.com
Engaging audiences in some of the finest cinematic visions and much more at Watershed, Bristol and beyond. Founder of Cinema Rediscovered, bringing great films back to the big screen since 2016. Ops my own.
Studying MA Film at Birkbeck. Was Chief Executive at Hackney Council and a Director in Whitehall and at Essex CC. Here for film, music, art, social policy and Nottingham Forest.
Film and music fan. Love the "Easy Rider to Raging Bull" era of film. Also has a taste for tacky psychotronica.
Shoegazer.
SE London dweller with a love of art and high weirdness.
Film enthusiast. My reviews at www.davefilmblog.com
Helping people find spare tickets for #lff and #bfiflare as well as various other film nonsense. Run by @sarahluv.bsky.social
gazetteer of disappearances and deletions (he / they)
your platform for thought-provoking cinema
• émigré • film poster graphic designer there & there • theatre and film photographer every now & then • somehow holds MA FSM with Film Programming & Curating • yapper about accented cinema •
www.ewaferdynus.com
& @byewfer & @ewaferdynusphoto on insta
Egyptology, Classics, reception, and cultural history.
Chair - gentlefuries.bsky.social
Ambassador - issegyptomania.bsky.social
BSFA Award finalist 2013
Agents:
Max Edwards - @AppleTreeLit
Nigel Hetherington - @Pastpreservers
London & Glasgow
Journalist and broadcaster (Guardian, Observer, Empire, Esquire, Elle etc) Author of 'SCREEN DEEP: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world'(Faber, 2024, linktr.ee/Screen_Deep); Co-host of SCREENSHOT on BBC Radio 4 and wherever you get your pods
Book lover, film lover, art lover, wine lover. I write about books at JacquiWine's Journal. https://linktr.ee/jacquiwine
Film critic, podcaster @FatalAttractPod.bsky.social, compiler/co-author of What To Watch When, creator of #PreCodeApril. Hasn't missed an episode of EastEnders since 1998.
Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope.
The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
ProjectedFigures.com
Freelance arts writer on women, surrealism, and cinema. Cat worshipper. Small Brummie.
https://linktr.ee/SabinaStent
Technical writer ... with interests in film, music, Perth Glory, Newcastle United and ... my beautiful wife, son and dog. Freo bound.
Film critic for BBC Radio. Author of books on Al Pacino, Rik Mayall and Eddie Murphy. Presenter of ALL ABOUT AL: THE PACINO PODCAST. Nottingham Forest supporter.
BFI Southbank: Season curator
'From Censored to Restored' + 'Chasing the Real'
Programme & Research Coordinator + MicroMacro Film. Views my own.
Bringing forgotten, lost, or unavailable films back to UK cinemas, mostly in 35mm and 16mm. Founded and operated by Geoffrey M. Badger. Also found at lostreels.co.uk and on other social media sites at @lostreelsuk
Film and TV journalist for the Guardian, Telegraph and Little White Lies. A child of Richard Marx and Rola Cola.
Publicity Director, Fitzcarraldo Editions
Sometimes football, always cats.
Production Manager at Radiance Films. Formerly BFI, Picador, Penguin Books. Bylines in Den of Geek, Little White Lies, Digital Spy. Movies are Dead screenings @ Prince Charles Cinema. Lots of stuff really. Picaresque account
🌿 Poet & nonfiction writer. ‘Strangers: Essays on the Human & Nonhuman’ w/Makina Books. 'WITCH' w/Penned in the Margins.
(https://makinabooks.com/product/strangers/)
Author, translator, vocal and pissed off SEND mum
Paris<>London
She/her
Can't spell verklempt without Kemp. Editorial Lead (UK & Europe) @letterboxd.social | Photographer & broadcaster everywhere else | She/her
digital editor @ Little White Lies magazine, future corpse. extremely online and incredibly anxious.
wrote SOFIA COPPOLA: FOREVER YOUNG, COLORS OF WES ANDERSON, YORGOS LANTHIMOS: THE MODERN PROMETHEUS out Oct 2026. 🤠
https://linktr.ee/hannahstrong
Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
"Leftist pseudo-intellectual", The Critic
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
📍Irish in London
✏️Writer & Editor for hire
👩🏻💻Culture, disability, books, lifestyle
🍿Always at the movies (or watching Twin Peaks)
https://linktr.ee/Jenny_McShane
https://ko-fi.com/cairdiul <-- that and £5 gets me a cup of coffee
Arts Writer and Commentator with words in Guardian, FT, Plaster Magazine, Independent and Dazed.
You can pre-order My Opinionated Guide to Erotic Art here: https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/an-opinionated-guide-to-erotic-art
Film. TV. Archaeology. Pottery. Photography. Novels and short stories. Design. India. London. West Dorset 🌻 🍉
Linktree: https://t.co/YEqJmhdXY0
Film Executive for many years now Head of Directing Fiction at the National Film and TV School, UK. Despite the very stormy clouds, glad to be here. ‘It's a beautiful new day? Hey’ . Let’s make waves.
Writer
Publisher - Peninsula Press
Bookseller - Burley Fisher Books
But we can recreate Twitter in aggregate
— Radio Times App Editor — Words on movies there and elsewhere (LWLies, 1001 Movies etc) — Londoner, film nerd, gooner.
Translator of the Raúl Ruiz Diaries - ruizdiaries.substack.com
Posts on daily entries and/or other stuff that I like.
🥞 🫖 📚
sick poet / library mole
london
writes about film & makes music
Haunting the World: Essays on Film after Perkins and Cavell
https://sunypress.edu/Books/H/Haunting-the-World
https://independent.academia.edu/DominicLash
https://dominiclash.bandcamp.com/
https://soundhunt3.wordpress.com/
Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
Writer and academic | Author of *In and Out of Sight* (Oxford UP) and coeditor of *Incomplete* (U California P) | Coming in 2027: *Image Encounters* (Penn State UP) and a collection of Kathleen Collins's plays and screenplays (U California P)
Senior Lecturer, MA Curating & Collections | Programme Curator, Chelsea Space | Chelsea College of Arts, UAL 🍩 Archives, Reproduction (artists' publishing), Feminisms, Writing 📐 Personal account 📎
linktr.ee/karendifranco
Neither Dog nor Master. Author of Zoological Surrealism. Co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays in an Adventurous Film Practice.
Digital Editor at Apollo magazine. Formerly at Sight and Sound. Arts writer, mostly film (bylines at BBC Culture, the FT, IndieWire, ArtReview, Cineaste, Cinema Scope and others)
I write the Daily column for Criterion's Current.
Magic Hours
Visible Darkness
Variety/Sight&Sound/The New World/Cinema Italia&Writers On Film podcasts
Connery - a Novel
https://plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/products/xn--connery--a-novel-by-john-bleasdale-pre-order--out-23-february-2026-kk96bdb
A film blog: I spent 2025 analysing Red Desert. www.slowmovingpictures.org
Critic of film and others.
dirt blurst. music + cinema + literature
writer and film critic • author Algorithm of the Night, Last Week in End Times Cinema, The Earth Dies Streaming • member Natl Society of Film Critics
My books: https://shop.nplusonemag.com/collections/by-a-s-hamrah
mainly film. https://boxd.it/40MAt.
Socialist, Appalachian, union steward, I write about formalist/experimental film and horror. they/them
writer and editor // writing @ Another Gaze, FIDback, MUBI/Notebook, RE:VOIR, Sight & Sound, etc. // laurastaab.xyz
🎥 interview evangelist, programming @ LIFFF
✍ romance, japan, animation, queer, latam, at BFI, IndieWire, The Film Stage, ScreenAnarchy and more
Contact: blakesimons97(at)gmail(dot)com
https://muckrack.com/blakesimons
Musician, Educator, Music Journalist, Part Time Cinephile, Politics/News, Whingeing about TfL
| everything's coming up milhouse |
writer, editor, curator, concept engineer, goblin
mattlloydturner.com + http://nonlinearities.substack.com
Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London.
jeremymillar.org
Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015
Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
UK-based critic and culture journalist. Bylines: BFI, Sight and Sound, Little White Lies, IndieWire and others. Member of the London Critics' Circle.
linktr.ee/jslaterwilliams
U.K. film distributor at New Wave Films.
writer • programmer • phd • babygirl
