Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️
@eclectichutch.bsky.social
Journalist/critic📽️
✍️ The A.V. Club • BW/DR • The Seattle Times • The Inlander • TheWrap • IGN • IndieWire • RogerEbert.com
authory.com/ChaseHutchinson
Hire me: chase.hutchinson.writer@gmail.com
VP Seattle Film Critics Society
SPJWash Winner for Criticism
✍️ The A.V. Club • BW/DR • The Seattle Times • The Inlander • TheWrap • IGN • IndieWire • RogerEbert.com
authory.com/ChaseHutchinson
Hire me: chase.hutchinson.writer@gmail.com
VP 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: Two National Guard members have been shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says.
Two National Guard members shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says
Two National Guard soldiers were shot Wednesday near the White House and their conditions aren’t immediately known, according to a law enforcement official not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.Emergency vehicles were seen responding to the area.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
BREAKING: Two National Guard members have been shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says.
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Gonna catch a movie after Thanksgiving dinner in Seattle? Here's my list of places you can go for @citycastseattle.bsky.social.
seattle.citycast.fm/things-to-do...
@siffnews.bsky.social and more!
seattle.citycast.fm/things-to-do...
@siffnews.bsky.social and more!
Movie Theaters Seattle City Cast - City Cast Seattle
Movie theaters in Seattle that are better for screening a new film instead of streaming it at home
seattle.citycast.fm
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Gonna catch a movie after Thanksgiving dinner in Seattle? Here's my list of places you can go for @citycastseattle.bsky.social.
seattle.citycast.fm/things-to-do...
@siffnews.bsky.social and more!
seattle.citycast.fm/things-to-do...
@siffnews.bsky.social and more!
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I’m prepared to give the first 20 minutes of Bi Gan’s Resurrection all of the movie awards.
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I’m prepared to give the first 20 minutes of Bi Gan’s Resurrection all of the movie awards.
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An ode to Joel Edgerton. www.vulture.com/article/joel...
Joel Edgerton’s Anti-Charisma Has Become His Greatest Strength
For years, he was the opposite of what we expect from leading men. But the Train Dreams actor has become a more memorable onscreen presence with age.
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
An ode to Joel Edgerton. www.vulture.com/article/joel...
Will have more on it quite soon, but resharing my rave review of Rian Johnson’s wonderful WAKE UP DEAD MAN now that you can see it in theaters. It's not only the best, most fun KNIVES OUT yet, but also the most spiritual with the power to make even Johnson’s greatest doubters into true believers 📽️
WAKE UP DEAD MAN: Rian Johnson’s glorious, goofy gothic horror is the best KNIVES OUT movie yet with an outstanding duo in Daniel Craig & Josh O'Connor. Taking shots at STAR WARS and Netflix while reflecting on faith?, it's a damn miracle 📽️
My #TIFF review: www.thewrap.com/wake-up-dead...
My #TIFF review: www.thewrap.com/wake-up-dead...
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Will have more on it quite soon, but resharing my rave review of Rian Johnson’s wonderful WAKE UP DEAD MAN now that you can see it in theaters. It's not only the best, most fun KNIVES OUT yet, but also the most spiritual with the power to make even Johnson’s greatest doubters into true believers 📽️
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Former staffers say a new owner dealt the respected publication a death blow when service members and veterans needed it most. Read @liamjscott.bsky.social www.cjr.org/feature/mili...
The vanquishing of Military.com.
Former staffers say a new owner dealt the respected publication a death blow when service members and veterans needed it most.
www.cjr.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Former staffers say a new owner dealt the respected publication a death blow when service members and veterans needed it most. Read @liamjscott.bsky.social www.cjr.org/feature/mili...
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MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I opens this weekend in Los Angeles, Seattle, Oklahoma City and Cleveland. For the @latimes.com, I made the case for one of the year's singular films.
Review: 'My Undesirable Friends' puts us front row as a real-life Russian TV channel unravels
Filmmaker Julia Loktev was in Moscow following her journalist friends as Russian forces invaded Ukraine. She captured a changing media climate for reporters.
www.latimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I opens this weekend in Los Angeles, Seattle, Oklahoma City and Cleveland. For the @latimes.com, I made the case for one of the year's singular films.
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For @seattletimes.com, spoke to legendary Palme d'Or-winning director Jafar Panahi while he was in town touring his incisive IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. We talked making films for yourself, creating art in the shadow of authoritarianism, and his fears for America 📽️
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
For @seattletimes.com, spoke to legendary Palme d'Or-winning director Jafar Panahi while he was in town touring his incisive IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. We talked making films for yourself, creating art in the shadow of authoritarianism, and his fears for America 📽️
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
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Absolutely love this piece by @BilgeEbiri. I too have enjoyed the Train Dreams Wars of 2025 because I love talking about movies. And I love reading pieces that don't align with my viewpoint. It's the movies we argue about that last. www.vulture.com/article/the-...
The Train Dreams Wars Are Here. Wait, What?
Behold the power of Netflix’s ability to generate discourse.
www.vulture.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Absolutely love this piece by @BilgeEbiri. I too have enjoyed the Train Dreams Wars of 2025 because I love talking about movies. And I love reading pieces that don't align with my viewpoint. It's the movies we argue about that last. www.vulture.com/article/the-...
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choose your sides! all aboard!
Nobody had it on their bingo card that the internet would come to blows over TRAIN DREAMS, but such is the power of Netflix and the Discourse Machine: www.vulture.com/article/the-...
The Train Dreams Wars Are Here. Wait, What?
Behold the power of Netflix’s ability to generate discourse.
www.vulture.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
choose your sides! all aboard!
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Nobody had it on their bingo card that the internet would come to blows over TRAIN DREAMS, but such is the power of Netflix and the Discourse Machine: www.vulture.com/article/the-...
The Train Dreams Wars Are Here. Wait, What?
Behold the power of Netflix’s ability to generate discourse.
www.vulture.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Nobody had it on their bingo card that the internet would come to blows over TRAIN DREAMS, but such is the power of Netflix and the Discourse Machine: www.vulture.com/article/the-...
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I should've had faith: Wake Up Dead Man is a welcome step forward for the Knives Out movies, thanks in part to a brilliant Josh O’Connor. Wrote about it www.avclub.com/wake-up-dead...
Miraculously, Wake Up Dead Man is another vital Benoit Blanc whodunit
Rian Johnson takes Knives Out to church with Wake Up Dead Man, looking for answers in the midst of a charged and charming congregation.
www.avclub.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I should've had faith: Wake Up Dead Man is a welcome step forward for the Knives Out movies, thanks in part to a brilliant Josh O’Connor. Wrote about it www.avclub.com/wake-up-dead...
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Thanks to @jacoboller.bsky.social for working with me on this. Been thinking about what makes TRAIN DREAMS both an essential portrait of the region and a reflection of how it got here for the better part of this year, so glad to have written this for such a great pub📽️
www.avclub.com/train-dreams...
www.avclub.com/train-dreams...
Train Dreams stakes a complex claim in the Pacific Northwest cinematic canon
The rapidly changing Pacific Northwest fuels the haunting engine of Netflix's stunning reflection Train Dreams.
www.avclub.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Thanks to @jacoboller.bsky.social for working with me on this. Been thinking about what makes TRAIN DREAMS both an essential portrait of the region and a reflection of how it got here for the better part of this year, so glad to have written this for such a great pub📽️
www.avclub.com/train-dreams...
www.avclub.com/train-dreams...
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Paramount is in talks with Warner Bros. to distribute a fourth #RushHour. Bizarrely, President Trump reportedly pushed Paramount CEO David Ellison to make moves to bring the franchise back to theaters, and Ellison has big reasons to listen.
Read much more: https://bit.ly/4rmKChZ
📸 New Line Cinema
Read much more: https://bit.ly/4rmKChZ
📸 New Line Cinema
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Paramount is in talks with Warner Bros. to distribute a fourth #RushHour. Bizarrely, President Trump reportedly pushed Paramount CEO David Ellison to make moves to bring the franchise back to theaters, and Ellison has big reasons to listen.
Read much more: https://bit.ly/4rmKChZ
📸 New Line Cinema
Read much more: https://bit.ly/4rmKChZ
📸 New Line Cinema
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Spoke with Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar about TRAIN DREAMS, shooting the logging scenes, working with animals, and, um, my *very* different interpretation of the source text. For the most recent @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy issue now online. filmmakermagazine.com/131835-inter...
Interview: Craig Bentley and Greg Kwedar on Train Dreams
Craig Bentley and Greg Kwedar discuss the making of the Denis Johnson adaptation Train Dreams.
filmmakermagazine.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Spoke with Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar about TRAIN DREAMS, shooting the logging scenes, working with animals, and, um, my *very* different interpretation of the source text. For the most recent @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy issue now online. filmmakermagazine.com/131835-inter...
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There was one storyline in Zootopia 2 that genuinely made me cry and then a whole lot of forgettable sequel stuff too
Zootopia 2 is a stagnant sequel with one stellar subplot
Disney seems less invested in Zootopia 2, churning out a sequel that feels more like a Disney+ TV show than an animated epic.
www.avclub.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
There was one storyline in Zootopia 2 that genuinely made me cry and then a whole lot of forgettable sequel stuff too
For @seattletimes.com, spoke to legendary Palme d'Or-winning director Jafar Panahi while he was in town touring his incisive IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. We talked making films for yourself, creating art in the shadow of authoritarianism, and his fears for America 📽️
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
For @seattletimes.com, spoke to legendary Palme d'Or-winning director Jafar Panahi while he was in town touring his incisive IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. We talked making films for yourself, creating art in the shadow of authoritarianism, and his fears for America 📽️
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
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“Breathtaking. A debut for the ages." - Chase Hutchinson, The Wrap
URCHIN, a film by Harris Dickinson, starring Frank Dillane. Now available on digital.
URCHIN, a film by Harris Dickinson, starring Frank Dillane. Now available on digital.
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“Breathtaking. A debut for the ages." - Chase Hutchinson, The Wrap
URCHIN, a film by Harris Dickinson, starring Frank Dillane. Now available on digital.
URCHIN, a film by Harris Dickinson, starring Frank Dillane. Now available on digital.
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bumping -- I loved TRAIN DREAMS and its dual depiction of our broad irrelevance and specific responsibilities so so much. would appreciate it if you gave it a read --
I wrote about the beautiful TRAIN DREAMS, and how one change from its source material turns the film into a timely argument against complicity, inaction, and ignoring crimes done to our neighbors, esp. when they look different from us. SPOILERS. @vulture.com:
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
bumping -- I loved TRAIN DREAMS and its dual depiction of our broad irrelevance and specific responsibilities so so much. would appreciate it if you gave it a read --
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"It’s been a ridiculous blessing to see this documentary chronicling what’s actually happening, that the buffalo are returning,” #LilyGladstone said about the upcoming documentary 'Bring Them Home' premiering on PBS Monday Nov 24. 🦬
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Lily Gladstone lends her voice and star power to the reflective PBS doc ‘Bring Them Home’
"Bring Them Home," which premieres Monday on PBS, offers Lily Gladstone another chance to use her now famous name to support these kinds of productions.
www.seattletimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"It’s been a ridiculous blessing to see this documentary chronicling what’s actually happening, that the buffalo are returning,” #LilyGladstone said about the upcoming documentary 'Bring Them Home' premiering on PBS Monday Nov 24. 🦬
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buff.ly/LAUvOCB
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New essay by yours truly on one of the film’s of the year… for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
A Visceral Look at the Impossible Task of Mothering
Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is at once harrowing and mesmerizing.
www.thenation.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
New essay by yours truly on one of the film’s of the year… for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Clint Bentley’s new film ‘Train Dreams,’ one of the best of the year and now streaming on Netflix, is an argument against complicity.
Train Dreams Is an Argument Against Complicity
Clint Bentley’s new film ‘Train Dreams,’ one of the best of the year and now streaming on Netflix, is an argument against complicity.
www.vulture.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Clint Bentley’s new film ‘Train Dreams,’ one of the best of the year and now streaming on Netflix, is an argument against complicity.
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I wrote about the beautiful TRAIN DREAMS, and how one change from its source material turns the film into a timely argument against complicity, inaction, and ignoring crimes done to our neighbors, esp. when they look different from us. SPOILERS. @vulture.com:
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I wrote about the beautiful TRAIN DREAMS, and how one change from its source material turns the film into a timely argument against complicity, inaction, and ignoring crimes done to our neighbors, esp. when they look different from us. SPOILERS. @vulture.com:
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
www.vulture.com/article/trai...
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Clint Bentley’s new film ‘Train Dreams,’ one of the best of the year and now streaming on Netflix, is an argument against complicity.
Train Dreams Is an Argument Against Complicity
Clint Bentley’s new film ‘Train Dreams,’ one of the best of the year and now streaming on Netflix, is an argument against complicity.
www.vulture.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Clint Bentley’s new film ‘Train Dreams,’ one of the best of the year and now streaming on Netflix, is an argument against complicity.