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Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️
@eclectichutch.bsky.social
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Freelance journalist/critic
Words: BWDR • The Seattle Times • The Inlander • TheWrap • IGN • IndieWire • RogerEbert.com
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VP of Seattle Film Critics Society
SPJWash Winner for Criticism
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The final trailer for TRAIN DREAMS is here. Will have more to say about it very soon, but trust me when I say there's so much beauty to how this film is stitched together. It continues to play @thegrandcinema.bsky.social for the next week and you should absolutely see it on the big screen if ya can📽️
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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BREAKING: Tom Mara is out as Executive Director at SIFF, closing a tumultuous year for the local arts organization. The news was announced today to staff and a search for a replacement is now set to begin sometime in 2026 📽️

My story for @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
Tom Mara, SIFF executive director, addresses guests during the ribbon-cutting ceremony at SIFF Cinema Downtown, formerly Cinerama, in Seattle on Dec. 14. Mara is stepping down as executive director. (Kevin Clark / The Seattle Times)
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Seattle film production facility Harbor Island Studios found its funding on the Metropolitan King County Council’s budgetary chopping block — but the show will go on for at least a while longer. However, a solution is needed soon 📽️ My story for @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
Harbor Island Studios, housed in the low-slung building running along the water, is shown from the air in this September 2021 photo. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
November 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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For @seattletimes.com, spoke with Lily Gladstone about lending her voice to the documentary BRING THEM HOME (which premieres Nov. 24 on PBS), recording her narration at her regular Seattle studio, and how history echoes with her upcoming film THE MEMORY POLICE 📽️

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Lily Gladstone poses for photographers at the BFI Flare Opening Gala for the film “The Wedding Banquet” on March. 19 in London. Her latest project, the documentary “Bring Them Home,” premieres Nov. 24 on PBS. (Scott A Garfitt / Invision / The Associated Press)
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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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 📽️

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A logo for the KUOW podcast/radio show SOUNDSIDE with the word split in two in big font and a green/blue blur in the middle of SIDE against a blue backdrop that's slightly faded in parts here and there.
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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THE RUNNING MAN: Glen Powell gives his all, but Edgar Wright’s letdown of a Stephen King adaptation is caught in a losing game all its own. Wright may have made it out with some money, but at the cost of becoming just another anonymous hired gun director📽️

My review: www.inlander.com/screen/the-r...
A page from The Inlander's print edition with the headline RUNNING ON EMPTY and the subhead The Running Man cements Glen Powell's star satus, but Edgar Right's Stephen King adaptation is no winner with a photo of the actor himself staring ahead with a grim look on his face while wearing a red and black jumpsuit as two guards stand behind him with the caption Glen Powell can only carry The Running Man so far.
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Listen up Seattle film lovers: acclaimed Palme d’Or-winning director Jafar Panahi is coming to @siffnews.bsky.social next week for a post-film Q&A after a screening of his essential IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. Thus, wrote about why you should absolutely go below 📽️

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Director Jafar Panahi, winner of the Palme d’Or for the film “It Was Just an Accident,” poses for photographers at the 78th international film festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 24. Panahi will participate in a post-film Q&A at SIFF Cinema Uptown on Nov 20. (Natacha Pisarenko / Invision / The Associated Press)
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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A smoky backdrop with a green frog with his arms and legs extended out on a white backdrop with the red text graphic design is my passion.
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Katie Wilson’s lead over Bruce Harrell continues to grow with her now leading 138,489 (50.19%) to 136,513 (49.48%). TLDR: She won. Thus, resharing the podcast episode I did for @citycastseattle.bsky.social once more with a ridiculous image that you'll have to listen to the whole thing to understand.
An image of two people riding on scooters along a bike path with the faces of Bruce Harrell (back) and Katie Wilson (front) superimposed over them as she races towards a finish line of flags as he falls behind.
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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*whispers* JAY KELLY wishes it was this film

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Text from a review of SENTIMENTAL VALUE in TheWrap that reads: That is all encapsulated in one simple yet shattering moment toward the end, in which we see Gustav wandering through the now almost empty home from the outside looking in. Through his own desire to make one more film about life and family, he has drained all of it from the home while driving them away. The shelves are empty and the silence deafening, making it already resemble a set more than it does a real place that people once lived.
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Us at the end of the podcast recording
Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson (top) raising his fist in the air standing at the end of a hallway and Benicio del Toro as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos (bottom) raising his fist in response before he is about to hide underground in a secret bunker.
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Katie Wilson is Seattle’s next mayor, probably! Back on
@citycastseattle.bsky.social to discuss the almost certain outcome of the mayoral race/other matters of critical importance. Come listen to that at the link below, stay for my unappreciated movie references

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A screenshot of the City Cast Seattle website with the headline Katie Wilson Is Seattle's Next Mayor, Probably! with a podcast embed waiting for you to click on it with a photo of the podcast city landscape logo.
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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A photo of a red poster Edgar Wright's THE RUNNING MAN starting Glen Powell projected on a screen in a theater for an advance press screening with Powell towering overtop of Colman Domingo who has his arms wide as a giant explosions burst outwards and a glowering Josh Brolin hovers over Powell's shoulder.
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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You can and should also read it in print today as well! 📽️

www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
A page from The Seattle Times print edition with the headline How Washington helped bring Netflix's buzzy adaptation 'Train Dreams' to life with a still of Joel Edgerton standing alone in the middle of a railroad as the vast and beautiful forest of Washington towers all around him.
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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For @seattletimes.com, I wrote about how the stunning TRAIN DREAMS (in theaters today, Netflix on 11/21) found life in Washington and spoke to the great filmmaker Clint Bentley. Will have yet more on this soon, but consider this a good starting point📽️

Read here: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
Joel Edgerton standing alone in the middle of a railroad as the vast and beautiful forests of Washington tower all around him in a still from TRAIN DREAMS.
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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You can also read this review in today's print edition of @seattletimes.com along with all their other great coverage from what's been a busy week 📺

www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
A page from The Seattle Times with the headline that reads 'Pluribus,' Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show, is delightfully dark with a still of Rhea Seehorn looking stressed while on the phone as she sits on a couch all alone as the world as she knew it up until this moment comes to an end.
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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PLURIBUS: Rhea Seehorn is excellent in Vince Gilligan’s darkly delightful and incisive sci-fi series. Can't say much about it other than you should absolutely see it and that, while no BREAKING BAD or BETTER CALL SAUL yet, is incredibly promising 📺

My review: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
Rhea Seehorn sitting alone on a couch while talking on the phone and looking profoundly concerned in a still from Vince Gilligan's mysterious new sci-fi series PLURIBUS.
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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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 📽️

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A cover of The Inlander's screen section with the headline AND THAT TIME WAS GONE FOREVER with the subhead Train Dreams is a transcendent, life-altering work of art and one of the best films ever shot in Washington with a still of Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier walking into a logging worksite that has rapidly changed with an expression of subtle concern at what his life has become with the caption Joel Edgerton shines in the existential PNW gem, Train Dreams.
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Text from a review of DIE MY LOVE in TheWrap that reads: There is no one who can cast a spell quite like Lynne Ramsay. Be it in a portrait of a mother reeling from the fact that her son committed a violent act or a study of the world’s loneliest mercenary who gets caught up in a conspiracy, it’s less about the “what” of the story than the manner in which she tells it. Her latest, the confined “Die, My Love’ starring Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence as a loving couple whose world begins to rapidly unravel, is no different. A film that falls again under the banner of “domestic horror” like “We Need to Talk About Kevin, “Die, My Love” is about seeing the way a small crack in the psyche can splinter outwards until everything shatters. While not always as measured as her past work and often a little rough around the edges on a technical level, the moments where Ramsay strips away all the noise to immerse us in the more unsettling experiential elements makes it a welcome return for the filmmaker.
November 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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DIE MY LOVE: Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson are outstanding in Lynne Ramsay’s often astounding new film. It's good as hell to have her back making movies that cast a spell as only she can. See it @thegrandcinema.bsky.social & @siffnews.bsky.social📽️

My review: www.thewrap.com/die-my-love-...
Jennifer Lawrence dances with her eyes closed as confetti falls in Lynne Ramsay's DIE, MY LOVE.
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Went on the newly launched City Cast Seattle to talk voting, defend the youth with their tendency to get ballots in at the last minute (which Katie Wilson will now be counting on), why we may be at a turning point in the city, and what's next🎙️

Listen here: seattle.citycast.fm/podcasts/you...
A logo for City Cast Seattle, a local daily podcast, with a green backdrop and iconic local landmarks in the foreground from Mount Rainier to the Space Needle.
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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For The Seattle Met, spoke with Ian Bell about his essential documentary WTO/99. It's an astounding, purely archival film that's an essential portrait of Seattle history and urgently relevant to now. Read that below then see it Thursday @nwfilmforum.bsky.social 📽️

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Filmmaker Ian Bell standing alone in downtown Seattle where, decades prior, the WTO protests became part of the city's history and are now the subject of his astounding, purely archival documentary WTO/99.
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Big day for news, but putting out a call to get PNW film folks’ perspectives on an IG post Barry Jenkins made warning about a scam sci-fi project he is very much not shooting next year. Shoot me a DM or email me at chase.hutchinson.writer@gmail.com with any thoughts/information 📽️
Text from an Instagram post made by filmmaker Barry Jenkins that reads: "Hello there — have recieved these DMS often enough over the past few days that I need to post something and let whoever needs to know that I have nothing to do with a Sci-Fi film called ABSENTIA. I don't know a Megan Doyle and that person is not casting anything myself or @wepastel are associated with. Word to the wise: if any production is asking you to pay a few to audition for a project, RUN. Be safe out there. A screenshot of a text from a post by Barry Jenkins that reads: Hi Mr. Jenkins, I had a lady by the name of Megan Doyle (Casting Director - Pastel Films) contact me, to submit a self tape for your upcoming film Absentia (which is filming in the Pacific Northwest early next year). She said that I was one of only three people to be selected for a call back for the role of Chloe Martinez in Los Angeles at the Prestigious Studio Lot in November. I am not sure if this is legitimate, so I found your IMDB profile. Can you let me know if this is a legitimate opportunity? I am sorry to bother you, but I have dealt with scams in the past. So I just want to make sure it's real before I consider....
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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For @seattletimes.com, I spoke to Spokane star Sydney Sweeney about her origins in Washington state, how the underrated Pacific Northwest-shot CLEMENTINE helped her love filmmaking, why she'd want to do another project here, and her new boxing biopic CHRISTY 🎥

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Sydney Sweeney (left) looking beat up and bloodied while wearing boxing gloves in a ring alongside director David Michôd in a behind the scenes photo from their new film CHRISTY about boxer Christy Martin.
November 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Look how Netflix massacred my boy! Henry Cavill is out as Geralt and Liam Hemsworth is in for #TheWitcher Season 4, a major downgrade that the long-awaited return of the show never overcomes. There is just no escaping the Hemsworth in the room 📺

My review: www.thewrap.com/the-witcher-...
Liam Hemsworth as Geralt staring at something out of frame with a blank expression in "The Witcher" (Credit: Netflix)
October 30, 2025 at 7:03 AM