The Boston Society of Film Critics Members
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	Ty Burr has been a film critic for the Boston Globe since July 2002. Before that, he spent ten years at Entertainment Weekly as the magazine's chief video critic, also covering film, music, theater, books, and the internet. He began his career at Home Box Office in the 1980s, where he programmed bad Corey Haim movies for Cinemax. Burr's latest book, "The Best Old Movies for Families: A Guide to Watching Together," was published by Anchor Books in February, 2007. He is also a member of the National Society of Film Critics. Articles and contact. Jay Carr reviews new movies for New England Cable News and old ones for Turner Classic Movies. A native of New York City, where he grew up in a household that read six newspapers daily, he dreamed of ending his days like the tabloid-famous Collier brothers of Manhattan, who died in their brownstone, buried under piles of old papers. He is well on his way to this shining goal. Carr prepared for a newspaper career by getting a degree in chemistry (good movies have chemistry, don't they?) and was immediately diverted from his studies by joining one of the two papers at the City College of New York. While there, he started doing journalism for money—although not much—by working as a police reporter at the Jersey City Journal. Then came jobs on the New York Post and Detroit News, with time out for an army hitch (the army's idea, not his). He also was chief film critic at the Boston Globe for 20 years. He won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, awarded by the English department chairmen of Yale, Princeton and Cornell Universities and was named Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et Lettres, by the French government for writings on French film. He edited and contributed to the anthology, The A-List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films. He currently shuttles (shuttles willing) between his home in Somerville and Washington, D.C., where he is affiliated with the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress. Constance Gorfinkle was a staff writer at The Patriot Ledger in Quincy for 30 years, reviewing film, writing related personality pieces, as well as various features and news stories on the arts in general. Gorfinkle continues to review film on a free-lance basis and she remains a member of the Boston Society of Film critics, which she served as president for several years. Peter Keough has been Film Editor at The Boston Phoenix since 1989 and has become a familiar figure at the office for his endearing habit of coming to work in pyjamas and pestering people for soup. He describes his position as “the best deal a guy like me could get, being a tick on the butt of the entertainment industry.” He is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics and The National Society of Film Critics and both organizations regret including him because of his tendency to stuff his pockets with free food from the lunch table during meetings and using his credentials in a vain attempt to pick up women. In his long tenure at The Phoenix he has reviewed thousands of movies, though he admittedly often confuses them with X-rated features he snuck into in the late 60s. Despite his busy schedule he found time to edit the book “Flesh and Blood: The National Society of Film Critics on Sex, Violence and Censorship,” published by Mercury House Press in 1995. Critics raved, declaring it “a book with a long title” and “full of amusing typos, factual errors and misspellings.” It sold over seventeen copies, most to now estranged family members and friends.	Daniel M. Kimmel is a Boston-area film reviewer and past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics. He has been reviewing for the Worcester Telegram and Gazette since 1984. He is also the "Movie Maven" for the Jewish Advocate and is a contributor to the Internet Review of Science Fiction. He has been the Boston correspondent for Variety since 1986. Kimmel's byline has appeared in numerous publications, including the Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, Film Comment, and Cinefantastique. He currently teaches at Suffolk University as well as lecturing before various groups. His book on the history of the Fox television network, The Fourth Network: How Fox Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television was brought out by Ivan R. Dee, Publisher in June 2004 and received the Cable Center Book Award. His history of DreamWorks, The Dream Team - The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks: Lessons from the New Hollywood was released in November 2006. He is currently working on his fourth book, a behind the scenes look at the great romantic comedies. Email. Loren King is a freelance writer whose reviews appear regularly in The Provincetown Banner and on PlanetOut.com. She also writes about film and theater for The Chicago Tribune and the Cape Cod Times. Since 1996, her film reviews, features and columns have appeared in The Boston Globe, the Boston Phoenix, Bay Windows and artsMedia among other publications. Email. Joyce Kulhawik is the arts and entertainment anchor for WBZ-TV. She also anchors the “Joyce’s Choices” entertainment report on TV38 and was co-host of the weekly nationally syndicated movie review program “Hot Ticket” with veteran movie critic Leonard Maltin, and during the 1999-2000 television season, was a continuing co-host on “Roger Ebert & The Movies,” the popular nationally-syndicated film review program. Kulhawik is also a three-time cancer survivor and an accomplished musician… more. Tom Meek is a longtime contributor at The Boston Phoenix and appears regularly on WRKO radio and New England Cable News. His byline has also appeared in Film Threat, Web Del-Sol and E!-Online. Tom’s short story “Scrambling” will be published in Grub Street’s 10th year, best of anthology, “Hacks.” He also hacked together this website. Email. Brett Michel writes for The Boston Phoenix. You can always find Brett dressed in black, donning a cap and sitting in the middle of one of the very front rows of the theater. Wesley Morris is a film critic at the Boston Globe. Previously, he wrote film reviews and essays for the San Francisco Examiner, and, later, the San Francisco Chronicle. His writing has also appeared in Film Comment and Slate. He was born in Philadelphia in 1975. He is a graduate of Yale University and now resides in Cambridge. Articles and contact. Janice Page writes about film for the Boston Globe, where she is also editor of book development. She was previously on staff as an editor and writer at the Los Angeles Times and the Providence Journal-Bulletin, and she cut her journalistic teeth as editor of the weekly Old Colony Memorial in Plymouth, Mass., where the most famous attraction is a rock. Her new-media adventures include serving as executive producer of MSN’s now defunct BostonSidewalk.com, which was supposed to have funded her early retirement. A native of Braintree, Janice moved back to Massachusetts in 1997 after Lauren Bacall commanded her to leave L.A. and save her soul. Bacall ended one interview by saying that Boston is home to “real people.” This is true, even if oftentimes you find them sitting in the dark, reviewing torture porn.	Gerald Peary has written a weekly column in The Boston Phoenix called “Film Culture” since 1996. A Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Peary is a Professor of Communications at Suffolk University, where he heads the film program. He is also the Programmer for the Boston University Cinematheque, a former Acting Director of the Harvard Film Archive, and a member of the National Society of Film Critics. An author of eight books on the cinema, and a Fulbright Scholar in Belgrade, ex-Yugoslavia, Peary is completing a documentary feature, For the Love of Movies: the Story of American Film Criticism. Email. Website. Gary Susman has reviewed movies and interviewed filmmakers for The Boston Phoenix since 1989, where he has also covered music, theater, television, and books. He has written about film for such outlets as The Village Voice, The Chicago Sun-Times, People, and MSNBC.com. He lives in New York City, where he is a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly and the editor of EW's PopWatch blog. Ed Symkus, a Boston native, is film reviewer for the Cambridge Chronicle, Freetime (Rochester, NY), the Pacific Northwest Inlander (Spokane, WA), and is senior arts writer for Community Newspaper Company. He's been offering opinions about films since he was dropped off at the Franklin Park Theatre in Dorchester when he was 6, and appears regularly on New England Cable News to talk about current films and DVD releases. His favorite movie is either "The Long Goodbye" or "And Now My Love." The one he despises most is "Liquid Sky." He helps plan the annual Boston Science Fiction Film Festival, is co-author of "Wrestle Radio U.S.A.: Grapplers Speak" (ECW Press), and went to Woodstock. Robert Tremblay has been the film critic at the MetroWest Daily News in Framingham for almost 15 years. During his tenure at the News, which began in 1989, he has been a bureau chief, feature writer, copy editor and business writer. He is also the paper's longtime restaurant critic. Before joining the News, he was as an editor for the Town Crier publications in Sudbury, Weston and Wayland. From 1978 to 1985, Tremblay worked at the Wellesley Townsman, first as a reporter and later as its editor-in-chief. From 1986 to 1988, he lived in Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne. Tremblay is also a longtime member of the Harvard Square Scriptwriters, a screenwriters support group. He is the author of 17 screenplays. James Verniere (a. k. a. the mysteriously youthful James Verniere), is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers University with a Master's Degree in English literature and has been the film critic for the Boston Herald since many of you were little children—and will continue to be when many of you are dead and buried. He is also a member of the National Society of Film Critics. Before becoming critic for the Herald, Verniere was a full-time free-lance writer for such publications as Film Comment, Sight and Sound, Moviegeor's Guide, The Aquarian Arts Weekly, Heavy Metal and Twilight Zone. Among his more noteworthy, non-film-related activities was teaching a semester of Freshman Composition at the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women when the Black Liberation Army member Joanne Chesimard (aka Assata Shakur) staged her escape. Articles. Steve Vineberg writes regularly for The Boston Phoenix, The Threepenny Review and The Christian Century and has been published in The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Oxford American, The Perfect Vision, The Walrus, Pakn Treger and many other publications. He is the author of three books: High Comedy: Class and Humor from the 1920s to the Present; No Surprises, Please: Movies in the Reagan Decade; and Method Actors: Three Generations of An American Acting Style. He is professor of theatre at College of the Holy Cross. David Wildman is the chief film critic for Boston's Weekly Dig as well as a freelancer for a number of other publications. In addition he is writing a novel titled “The Book of Enemy,” an instruction manual for a fictional mindreadng cult in the Berkshires, shopping a screenplay for a psychological thriller titled “Fugue State” and also sings and plays hard rocking guitar in his band The Unfamiliars.
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