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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
VP Seattle Film Critics Society
SPJWash Winner for Criticism
Pinned
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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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. 🦬
buff.ly/LAUvOCB
buff.ly/LAUvOCB
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. 🦬
buff.ly/LAUvOCB
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.
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Breaking News: A judge dismissed charges against James Comey and Letitia James, saying the prosecutor that President Trump handpicked was unlawfully appointed.
Judge Dismisses James Comey Case, Finding Trump Prosecutor Was Unlawfully Appointed
The decision is a setback for Mr. Trump’s efforts to wield the criminal justice system against his perceived enemies.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Breaking News: A judge dismissed charges against James Comey and Letitia James, saying the prosecutor that President Trump handpicked was unlawfully appointed.
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Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
www.vulture.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...
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Back on @citycastseattle.bsky.social to talk all things TRAIN DREAMS, the state of local film production in Seattle and Washington, Harbor Island being on the chopping block, what's up at SIFF, & more (alt title for the episode: why I was so tired this past week)📽️
seattle.citycast.fm/podcasts/wha...
seattle.citycast.fm/podcasts/wha...
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Back on @citycastseattle.bsky.social to talk all things TRAIN DREAMS, the state of local film production in Seattle and Washington, Harbor Island being on the chopping block, what's up at SIFF, & more (alt title for the episode: why I was so tired this past week)📽️
seattle.citycast.fm/podcasts/wha...
seattle.citycast.fm/podcasts/wha...
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Be seated! Wednesday, in a movie theater, to see #WakeUpDeadMan! See my pinned post for a theater finder link
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Be seated! Wednesday, in a movie theater, to see #WakeUpDeadMan! See my pinned post for a theater finder link
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I loved talking with Alexandra about creating the world of TRAIN DREAMS. Such epic scope on a budget!! Beyond impressive.
#TrainDreams production designer Alexandra Schaller talks with @djmecca.bsky.social about finding beauty in the land and making small films feel big: thefilmstage.com/train-dreams...
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I loved talking with Alexandra about creating the world of TRAIN DREAMS. Such epic scope on a budget!! Beyond impressive.