Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️
@eclectichutch.bsky.social
Freelance journalist/critic
Words: BWDR • The Seattle Times • The Inlander • TheWrap • IGN • IndieWire • RogerEbert.com
authory.com/ChaseHutchinson
Hire me: chase.hutchinson.writer@gmail.com
VP of Seattle Film Critics Society
SPJWash Winner for Criticism
Words: BWDR • The Seattle Times • The Inlander • TheWrap • IGN • IndieWire • RogerEbert.com
authory.com/ChaseHutchinson
Hire me: chase.hutchinson.writer@gmail.com
VP of Seattle Film Critics Society
SPJWash Winner for Criticism
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THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER: Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut is an expansive, evocative work of cinematic poetry with a career-best performance by Imogen Poots. It's a formally ambitious vision that shows Stewart has got the stuff 📽️
My #Cannes2025 review: www.thewrap.com/the-chronolo...
My #Cannes2025 review: www.thewrap.com/the-chronolo...
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Breaking from us:
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
ICE looks to WA tribes to house detained immigrants
The Nisqually Indian Tribe says it is turning down a request from ICE to house detained immigrants on tribal land.
www.seattletimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Breaking from us:
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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if you’re a journalist who wants to talk about how embarrassing this week has been for our profession (the michael wolff, landon thomas jr, nuzzi/bernstein of it all) message me on signal
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
if you’re a journalist who wants to talk about how embarrassing this week has been for our profession (the michael wolff, landon thomas jr, nuzzi/bernstein of it all) message me on signal
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enjoying the One Battle After Another clips which above all have reinforced how fucking amazing that score is
November 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
enjoying the One Battle After Another clips which above all have reinforced how fucking amazing that score is
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Screenings of @seattlecritics.bsky.social' PNW nominees continue! Shorts w/filmmakers at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social Nov 19 and features w/filmmakers at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center Nov 21-23: Twinless, Wolf Land, To Kill a Wolf, WTO/99, Not One Drop of Blood. We launched with Train Dreams Oct 29.
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Screenings of @seattlecritics.bsky.social' PNW nominees continue! Shorts w/filmmakers at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social Nov 19 and features w/filmmakers at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center Nov 21-23: Twinless, Wolf Land, To Kill a Wolf, WTO/99, Not One Drop of Blood. We launched with Train Dreams Oct 29.
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Will have more to come on it soon, but was glad to mark the moment I've spent the better part of this year reflecting on by writing for a lovely pub like @inlander.com which is based where the film itself was also given life. Give them your support and stay tuned 📽️
www.inlander.com/screen/revie...
www.inlander.com/screen/revie...
Train Dreams is a transcendent, life-altering work of art and one of the best films ever shot in Washington
For the past several years, it’s been increasingly hard to shake the growing sense that every word of every piece I’ve ever written has been, in accumulating ways, part of
www.inlander.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Will have more to come on it soon, but was glad to mark the moment I've spent the better part of this year reflecting on by writing for a lovely pub like @inlander.com which is based where the film itself was also given life. Give them your support and stay tuned 📽️
www.inlander.com/screen/revie...
www.inlander.com/screen/revie...
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Make next Saturday a wolf-themed double feature: 📽️ TO KILL A WOLF plays on November 22 as part of our Best Pacific Northwest Films series. Join us at SIFF Film Center for a screening and Q&A including the film's director Kelsey Taylor.
🐺 www.siff.net/programs-and...
🐺 www.siff.net/programs-and...
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Make next Saturday a wolf-themed double feature: 📽️ TO KILL A WOLF plays on November 22 as part of our Best Pacific Northwest Films series. Join us at SIFF Film Center for a screening and Q&A including the film's director Kelsey Taylor.
🐺 www.siff.net/programs-and...
🐺 www.siff.net/programs-and...
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Good news for Washington movie lovers: Clint Bentley’s flooring film TRAIN DREAMS is opening today @thegrandcinema.bsky.social & @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social. It's one you're going to want to catch in a theater and, if you need more convincing, read what I wrote about why it's so resonant below 📽️
Joel Edgerton help me, have written once more about Clint Bentley’s transcendent Washington-shot wonder TRAIN DREAMS (in theaters today, Netflix on 11/21) and becoming a relic in your own time. Quite happy with this one, so I'd appreciate ya giving it a read below 📽️
www.inlander.com/screen/revie...
www.inlander.com/screen/revie...
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Good news for Washington movie lovers: Clint Bentley’s flooring film TRAIN DREAMS is opening today @thegrandcinema.bsky.social & @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social. It's one you're going to want to catch in a theater and, if you need more convincing, read what I wrote about why it's so resonant below 📽️
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Hey Seattle: if you want alternatives to Starbucks, @slimeythash.bsky.social, @samjleeds.bsky.social, and @janehu.bsky.social talk about their favorite coffee shops on today's episode! megaphone.link/CC7481892007
And we've got a list going here as well: seattle.citycast.fm/food-and-dri...
And we've got a list going here as well: seattle.citycast.fm/food-and-dri...
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hey Seattle: if you want alternatives to Starbucks, @slimeythash.bsky.social, @samjleeds.bsky.social, and @janehu.bsky.social talk about their favorite coffee shops on today's episode! megaphone.link/CC7481892007
And we've got a list going here as well: seattle.citycast.fm/food-and-dri...
And we've got a list going here as well: seattle.citycast.fm/food-and-dri...
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As all who've seen the many Leonardo DiCaprio clips circulating will know, Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is now streaming on VOD. While these are all great fun, recommend watching or rewatching the whole thing as it's one of 2025’s best with an all-timer finale with Chase Infiniti📽️
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER: Paul Thomas Anderson makes his most kinetic, profound film yet, cutting to the heart of the existential battle for the country’s soul. DiCaprio is a joy, but it's Chase Infiniti (great name) who is the true revelation 📽️
My ★★★★ review: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
My ★★★★ review: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
As all who've seen the many Leonardo DiCaprio clips circulating will know, Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is now streaming on VOD. While these are all great fun, recommend watching or rewatching the whole thing as it's one of 2025’s best with an all-timer finale with Chase Infiniti📽️
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Twenty-one people were arrested Friday morning during a protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview following a skirmish in which several police officers were injured.
21 arrested, police officers injured at protest outside ICE processing center in Broadview
A scuffle between police and protesters broke out outside the ICE processing center in Broadview.
trib.al
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Twenty-one people were arrested Friday morning during a protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview following a skirmish in which several police officers were injured.
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"The median American voter has a remarkable ability to diagnose a social malaise while misapprehending its causes in monumentally scattershot ways." defector.com/yorgos-lanth...
‘Bugonia’ Makes A Crash Landing | Defector
“I know you want there to be a master plan,” the kidnapping victim says to her captor. In Bugonia, the latest movie by Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone plays girlboss biotech CEO Michelle Fuller, and…
defector.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"The median American voter has a remarkable ability to diagnose a social malaise while misapprehending its causes in monumentally scattershot ways." defector.com/yorgos-lanth...
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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Went on KUOW’s SOUNDSIDE to discuss the state of independent movie theaters in Seattle and how the film landscape is having an impact locally. Come for the fortuitous Jafar Panahi cheering, stay for my closing thoughts on what I'll be looking at in 2026 📽️
www.kuow.org/stories/ligh...
www.kuow.org/stories/ligh...
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Went on KUOW’s SOUNDSIDE to discuss the state of independent movie theaters in Seattle and how the film landscape is having an impact locally. Come for the fortuitous Jafar Panahi cheering, stay for my closing thoughts on what I'll be looking at in 2026 📽️
www.kuow.org/stories/ligh...
www.kuow.org/stories/ligh...
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Keeper has real "48 Hour Film Project" energy dressed up with some handsome images www.avclub.com/keeper-review
Oz Perkins spends a long weekend in the woods with the forgettable ghost story Keeper
Oz Perkins' Keeper is a straightforward cabin-in-the-woods two-hander whose big genre pivots are as dull as its rote premise.
www.avclub.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Keeper has real "48 Hour Film Project" energy dressed up with some handsome images www.avclub.com/keeper-review
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What a tribute
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
What a tribute
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Being observed today so I guess I'll go through the slit on the left
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Being observed today so I guess I'll go through the slit on the left
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The new Running Man wants to be resistance porn, but it turns out the original one did a WAY better job of that. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
Everything 'The Running Man' does wrong
SFGATE columnist Drew Magary critiques Edgar Wright's '80s remake.
www.sfgate.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The new Running Man wants to be resistance porn, but it turns out the original one did a WAY better job of that. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
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"The film asks this question of the ambivalence of history and memory. On one level, we need to forget, to forgive a difficult parent. On the other hand, we owe it to the past to remember certain things, not to repeat those faults."
I spoke to Joachim Trier about his gorgeous SENTIMENTAL VALUE.
I spoke to Joachim Trier about his gorgeous SENTIMENTAL VALUE.
We Live in Time: Joachim Trier on "Sentimental Value" | Interviews | Roger Ebert
The filmmaker sits down for a wide-ranging discussion of his film’s poignant themes, the challenges and joys of working with time, and more.
www.rogerebert.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"The film asks this question of the ambivalence of history and memory. On one level, we need to forget, to forgive a difficult parent. On the other hand, we owe it to the past to remember certain things, not to repeat those faults."
I spoke to Joachim Trier about his gorgeous SENTIMENTAL VALUE.
I spoke to Joachim Trier about his gorgeous SENTIMENTAL VALUE.
Good news for Washington movie lovers: Clint Bentley’s flooring film TRAIN DREAMS is opening today @thegrandcinema.bsky.social & @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social. It's one you're going to want to catch in a theater and, if you need more convincing, read what I wrote about why it's so resonant below 📽️
Joel Edgerton help me, have written once more about Clint Bentley’s transcendent Washington-shot wonder TRAIN DREAMS (in theaters today, Netflix on 11/21) and becoming a relic in your own time. Quite happy with this one, so I'd appreciate ya giving it a read below 📽️
www.inlander.com/screen/revie...
www.inlander.com/screen/revie...
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Good news for Washington movie lovers: Clint Bentley’s flooring film TRAIN DREAMS is opening today @thegrandcinema.bsky.social & @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social. It's one you're going to want to catch in a theater and, if you need more convincing, read what I wrote about why it's so resonant below 📽️
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TheWrap has an exclusive first look at the return of "The Rocketeer." IDW is bringing Cliff Secord and his rocket pack back with a new story based on an outline by #Rocketeer creator Dave Stevens.
And it's all about Cliff teaming up with Amelia Earhart: https://bit.ly/47K0Pq0
📸 IDW
And it's all about Cliff teaming up with Amelia Earhart: https://bit.ly/47K0Pq0
📸 IDW
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
TheWrap has an exclusive first look at the return of "The Rocketeer." IDW is bringing Cliff Secord and his rocket pack back with a new story based on an outline by #Rocketeer creator Dave Stevens.
And it's all about Cliff teaming up with Amelia Earhart: https://bit.ly/47K0Pq0
📸 IDW
And it's all about Cliff teaming up with Amelia Earhart: https://bit.ly/47K0Pq0
📸 IDW
As all who've seen the many Leonardo DiCaprio clips circulating will know, Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is now streaming on VOD. While these are all great fun, recommend watching or rewatching the whole thing as it's one of 2025’s best with an all-timer finale with Chase Infiniti📽️
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER: Paul Thomas Anderson makes his most kinetic, profound film yet, cutting to the heart of the existential battle for the country’s soul. DiCaprio is a joy, but it's Chase Infiniti (great name) who is the true revelation 📽️
My ★★★★ review: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
My ★★★★ review: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
As all who've seen the many Leonardo DiCaprio clips circulating will know, Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is now streaming on VOD. While these are all great fun, recommend watching or rewatching the whole thing as it's one of 2025’s best with an all-timer finale with Chase Infiniti📽️
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I enjoyed the lovely little ARCO, a French animated feature from Ugo Bienvenu that at its best evokes Miyazaki and Moebius — no small feat for a feature debut. For @ebertvoices.bsky.social:
ARCO movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert
“Arco” is pleasingly, gently prismatic, if never quite groundbreaking.
www.rogerebert.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I enjoyed the lovely little ARCO, a French animated feature from Ugo Bienvenu that at its best evokes Miyazaki and Moebius — no small feat for a feature debut. For @ebertvoices.bsky.social:
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Ira Sachs’ PETER HUJAR’S DAY is really special. Ben Whishaw & Rebecca Hall are outstanding, but it's the way small moments build to something monumental that cut deep. Catch it @siffnews.bsky.social & @thegrandcinema.bsky.social starting Fri to see Alex Ashe’s great cinematography on the big screen📽️
PETER HUJAR’S DAY: Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall are each outstanding as they bring life to Ira Sachs’ quietly devastating drama. Had to sit with this one, but I now consider it to be one of the most significant of the festival 📽️
My #Sundance2025 review: www.thewrap.com/peter-hujars...
My #Sundance2025 review: www.thewrap.com/peter-hujars...
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Ira Sachs’ PETER HUJAR’S DAY is really special. Ben Whishaw & Rebecca Hall are outstanding, but it's the way small moments build to something monumental that cut deep. Catch it @siffnews.bsky.social & @thegrandcinema.bsky.social starting Fri to see Alex Ashe’s great cinematography on the big screen📽️
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A rave for SIRĀT, the movie of the year: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Sirāt” Is a Harrowing, Exhilarating Dance of Death
In Oliver Laxe’s desert thriller, an intensely agonizing journey reveals both the pitiless nature of fate and the stubborn persistence of compassion.
www.newyorker.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A rave for SIRĀT, the movie of the year: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...