The Spacewalker

Gene Seymour worked for eighteen years as a film critic and jazz reviewer for Newsday in New York. He has contributed articles on politics, culture, science fiction, and (even) baseball to such publications as the New Republic, the Baffler, the...

Craig D. Lindsey is a Houston-based writer and critic. He was the film critic for the Raleigh News & Observer and has written about film for the Village Voice, the A.V. Club, the Guardian, the Nashville Scene, Crooked Marquee, RogerEbert.com,...

Grady Hendrix is the cofounder of Subway Cinema and the New York Asian Film Festival, as well as the author, most recently, of These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World (with Chris Poggiali).

Maggie Lee is a curator of Asian cinema and chief Asia film critic for Variety. She has contributed as English editor and translator to the Hong Kong Film Archive’s publications, including The Swordsman and His Jiang Hu: Tsui Hark and...

Larissa Pham is an artist and writer in Brooklyn. She is the author of Fantasian, a novella, and the essay collection Pop Song.

Barry Jenkins is a film director and screenwriter. He directed and cowrote the film Moonlight, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016. In 2018, he wrote and directed a film adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale...

Elena Lazic is a French freelance film writer based in London, and the founder and editor of the online film magazine Animus. She has written for Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, MUBI’s Notebook, the Guardian, and Cahiers du cinéma,...

D. A. Miller, who taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley, is most recently the author of Hidden Hitchcock (University of Chicago Press) and Second Time Around: From Art House to DVD (Columbia University Press).

Laura Kern is a writer, editor, and horror programmer based in New York. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Film Comment, and Rolling Stone.

Lisa B. Thompson is the Patton Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class, Single Black Female,...