Cascadia Film and Television Critics Association

CFTCA Member Profile: Michael Clawson - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association Where is your favourite place to sit in a theater? About two-thirds away from the screen, slightly to one side or the other. Tell us about your local film scene (what you like about it, things you wis...

Meet Michael Clawson, one of our board members, host of the Drink in the Movies podcast and film reviewer. Learn all about Michael!

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On this month's Cascadia round up, I ranked the Mission Impossible films (with @smatthew.bsky.social and Rachel Ho) and reviewed Mann’s Sparks. Check out all the great members work!

Featuring my review of Jia Zhangke's CAUGHT BY THE TIDES and a post from the WERNER HERZBLOG alongside the great critical work of a bunch of Pacific Northwest critics.

CFTCA Digest: June 2025 - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for June 2025, a roundup of recent reviews, features, interviews, and more by CTFCA critics. Film Reviews Contra Zoom Pod Ep. #307: Mission Impossible Ranked | Listen...

Our June critics round up is here! We have reviews of 28 Years Later, Bring Them Down, Materialists, Into the Inferno and much more! Check out all of our members works.

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CFTCA Digest: SIFF 2025 - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for May 2025, a roundup of recent work. This month’s digest centers on coverage of the Seattle International Film Festival.

Our May Roundup is here! Last month was @siffnews.bsky.social so we are featuring reviews of Twinless, Sorry, Baby, Four Mothers, Shepherds and more!

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CFTCA Member Profile: Matthew Simpson - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association On our latest member profile, we meet Matthew Simpson, one of the co-founders of the CFTCA and host of the Awesome Friday podcast.

Meet Matthew Simpson, he’s one of our three co-founders and the host of the Awesome Friday podcast. Learn all about @smatthew.bsky.social!

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CFTCA Digest: April 2025 - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for April 2025, a roundup of recent reviews, features, interviews, and more by CTFCA critics.

Our April round up of our members work is now up! Check out reviews of Warfare, Sinners, Havoc, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Sacramento and more!

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Check out my review of the Blue Rodeo doc and all the other great work by my fellow members!

CFTCA Digest: February 2025 - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for February 2025, a roundup of recent reviews, features, interviews, and more by CTFCA critics. Film Reviews Haru (Yoshimitsu Morita, 1996) | Read the Full Review"In...

Our February critics round up is now live! Check out our members reviews of The Monkey, The Brutalist, My Dead Friend Zoe, Blue Rodeo: Lost Together, Win or Lose and more!

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CFTCA Member Profile: Thomas Stoneham-Judge - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association Tell us about yourself. I've had my website ForReel since 2018. I am now a Rotten Tomatoes certified critic and mostly review newly released films and film festival selections. My reviews for films co...

Meet Thomas Stoneham-Judge, he’s one of our groups founders. He also runs the publication For Reel. Learn all about Thomas on our latest Member Profile.

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CFTCA Member Profile: Dakota Arsenault - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association Tell us about yourself. I mainly am a podcaster, creating and hosting Contra Zoom Pod, a weekly show where every week we switch things up since 2015. Whether it is an episode in our A24 Retrospective ...

Meet Dakota Arsenault one of our groups founders. He helped created the CFTCA back in 2021. Learn about how he got started in the industry, what movie he’s seen the most times, what his biggest career moment is and more!

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CFTCA Digest: December 2024 - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for December 2024, a roundup of recent reviews, features, interviews, and more by CTFCA critics. Film Reviews A24 - Retrospective: The Witch | Listen to the EpisodeOn...

Our December critics round up is live! Check out our members reviews on such films like Nosferatu, No Other Land, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist and more!

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The members of the Cascadia Film & Television Critics Aasociation are proud to announce our Beat Cascadian Film of 2024, Sometimes I Think About Dying by director Rachel Lambert. Read all about it here:

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We are proud to announce that the winner of the 2024 Best Cascadian Film Sometimes I Think About Dying, directed by Rachel Lambert. The film was shot in Oregon and tells the story of a depressed woman who slowly starts to come out of her shell.

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Our November critics round up is here! Check out our reviews of Wicked, Dahomey, Compulsus, Blitz, Gladiator II and more!

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Cascadia Film & Television Critics have named our top five series of 2024! Check it out!

We have named our five best tv shows of 2024! Click link to see where shows like The Penguin, Fallout, Mr and Mrs Smith and more all rank!

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Year two at @cascadiacritics.bsky.social in the bag! A great top 10 list featuring some of my favourites of the year like Dune: Part Two, Challengers and Civil War!

👋 The Cascadia Film & Television Critics Association that I am a part of has named our top ten movies of 2024! Each film has an advocate of someone in our group who ranked the film highly on their list. Check it out here:
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Cascadia Film & Television Critics Association, the local group I helped found, has named our top ten movies of 2024! Check it out here:

We have named our ten best films of the year! Click link to see where films like Challengers, I Saw The TV Glow, The Substance and more all rank!

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Here are the five finalists for Best Cascadian film that I helped to nominate! Check them a out!

Nominees for the @cascadiacritics.bsky.social 2024 Best Cascadian Film Award are live!

Here are the nominees for the 2024 Best Cascadian Film, an award that celebrates the best film from British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. Click link to learn more about the nominees and stay tuned for the winners announcement later this month! #Filmsky

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Check out my podcast on Giallo movies and all the other great work by my fellow members!

Good news everyone! You check out a bunch of great film writing from my @cascadiacritics.bsky.social colleagues here in our October roundup!

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#Rumours #UniversalLanguage #SaturdayNight #Megalopolis

Wrote about Rumours for this one!

Our October round up is here! Click to read, watch and listen to our critics review such films like Rumours, Megalopolis, La Cocina and more!

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Our September round up is a spotlight on the Vancouver International Film Festival. Check out our members reviews of Rumours, Conclave, The Girl With a Needle, 40 Acres and more!

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