Our August critics round up is now love! Check out reviews on Weapons, Honey Don't, Nobody 2, Alien: Earth and more! Check out all of our members work! www.cascadiacritics.com/2025/09/cftc...

Meet Michael Clawson, one of our board members, host of the Drink in the Movies podcast and film reviewer. Learn all about Michael! www.cascadiacritics.com/2025/07/cftc...

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.

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. www.cascadiacritics.com/2025/07/cftc...

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! www.cascadiacritics.com/2025/06/cftc...

Oh hey it’s me.

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! www.cascadiacritics.com/2025/05/cftc...

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! www.cascadiacritics.com/2025/05/cftc...

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

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! www.cascadiacritics.com/2025/03/cftc...

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. www.cascadiacritics.com/2025/03/cftc...

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! www.cascadiacritics.com/2025/01/cftc...

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! www.cascadiacritics.com/2025/01/cftc...

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: www.cascadiacritics.com/2024/12/the-...

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. www.cascadiacritics.com/2024/12/the-...

Our November critics round up is here! Check out our reviews of Wicked, Dahomey, Compulsus, Blitz, Gladiator II and more! www.cascadiacritics.com/2024/12/cftc...

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! www.cascadiacritics.com/2024/12/casc...

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: www.cascadiacritics.com/2024/12/casc...

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! www.cascadiacritics.com/2024/12/casc...

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 www.cascadiacritics.com/2024/12/nomi...

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! www.cascadiacritics.com/2024/11/cftc... #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! www.cascadiacritics.com/2024/11/cftc...

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! www.cascadiacritics.com/2024/10/cftc...

Happy birthday to our co-founder @smatthew.bsky.social! As a birthday present subscribe to @awesomefriday.bsky.social and visit awesomefriday.ca!

Our May round up highlights reviews of Aggro Dr1ft, Thelma, Hit Man, Seagrass, Furiousa, Last Stop in Yuma County, The Acolyte and more! www.cascadiacritics.com/2024/06/cftc...

Our March review round up highlights reviews of Love Lies Bleeding, Dune: Part Two, Perfect Days, Road House, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Things Will Be Different, The Beast and more! www.cascadiacritics.com/2024/04/cftc...

Our winner of the Best Cascadian Film award goes to Riceboy Sleeps. "Riceboy Sleeps was set and shot in the outskirts of Vancouver; the setting played such an integral role in the film and I’m so grateful to have been able to shoot in the places we did." - Anthony Shim Click link in bio for more.

Introducing our Top 10 Films of 2023! "David Fincher's tale of a perfectionist discovering he is not perfect is so deeply layered that it's easy to see its focused, fading protagonist as a creative metaphor." - Simon Best

Introducing our final nominee for Best Cascadian Film, Wild Goat Surf, directed by Caitlyn Sponheimer. The film follows Goat, a preteen who is obsessed with surfing despite being hundreds of miles away from the ocean, whole here mom struggles to hold down multiple jobs just to make ends meet.

Our 4th nominee for Best Cascadian Film, Until Branches Bend, directed by Sophie Jarvis. It follows a woman who works at a peach cannery in the Okanagan Valley who finds a worm hole in a peach. By raising concerns about a potentially invasive species she risks the livelihood of the entire region.

Introducing our third nominee for Best Cascadian Film, Seagrass, directed by Meredith Hama-Brown. The film follows a Japanese-Canadian woman who brings her husband and two children to a couples counseling retreat after the passing of her mother and her marriage on the rocks.

Introducing our second nominee for Best Cascadian Film, Satan Wants You, directed by Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams. The film documents one of the starting points of the Satanic Panic in the 80s with the release of the book Michelle Remembers. Click link in bio to see the full list of nominees.

Introducing our first nominee for Best Cascadian Film, Riceboy Sleeps directed by Anthony Shim. The film follows a single mom and her son as they immigrate from Korea to Vancouver as they both struggle to find their place in their new home.

We're the CFTCA, a new group of critics that span the Cascadia region. Right now we represent members from British Columbia and Washington with plans to expand in the future! Starting tomorrow we will be listing the nominees for our inaugural Best Cascadian Film award, so stay tuned for that!