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Peg Aloi has been a freelance film
critic for the Boston Phoenix since 1997. Her reviews have also appeared in Art
New England, The Boston Metro, Cinefantastique
Online, and the PopMatters website, and she's been
the media reviewer for The Witches' Voice website since 1996. She has a film
review blog on the Times-Union website, and is the Boston Movie Examiner for Examiner.com.
She taught film studies at Emerson College from 1999 through 2009, and is
teaching film at the Massachusetts College of Art in 2010. She and writing
partner Hannah Johnston are currently collaborating on two projects:
co-editing an anthology forthcoming in 2010 from Macfarland
Publishing (Bloodlust and Dust: Essays on HBO's Carnivale),
and co-writing a book for I. B. Tauris (The
Celluloid Bough: Cinema in the Wake of the Occult Revival). She is also a
singer and collector of traditional music, and an award-winning poet. Her
favorite film of all time is Picnic at Hanging Rock. She's clumsy,
easily-distracted, way too opinionated and rarely bored. She lives in Albany. 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. Sean Burns Since 1999 Sean Burns has been Philadelphia Weekly's lead film critic, and also currently writes for The Improper Bostonian. His work has previously appeared in The Boston Metro, Matinee Magazine, The Nashville Scene, Time Out New York and The House Next Door. Burns was a recurring guest on the late David Brudnoy's WBZ 1030 AM Radio Show, and in 2002 received an award for Excellence in Criticism from the Philadelphia Society of Professional Journalists. His writing has been called "jocular but serious, more like a 1940s daily reporter pounding out columns on a manual typewriter than a typical 21st century navel-gazing film critic." Burns has also been told that he "smokes too much and drives like an old lady." He and his cat live in Waltham, MA. 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 Collyer 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 Constance Gorfinkle was a staff writer
at The Patriot Ledger in 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 reviewed for the
Worcester Telegram and Gazette from 1984 to 2009. His reviews can
currently be found at North
Shore Movies.net. 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 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 was the long running arts and entertainment anchor for WBZ-TV. You can now find her at Spontaneous Acts of Joyce. 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 and New England Cable News. His byline can also be found at Film Threat, Web Del-Sol, Cineaste and E!-Online. Tom prides himself on biking everywhere. 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 Gary Susman has reviewed movies and interviewed filmmakers since 1989 for The Boston Phoenix, where he has also covered music, theater, television, and books. He blogs daily about movies and TV at AOL's Inside Movies and Inside TV blogs. He has written about film for such outlets as The Village Voice, The Chicago Sun-Times, People, The Guardian, Life, CNN, and MSNBC. He is still an occasional contributor to Entertainment Weekly, where he was a founder and editor of EW's award-winning Pop Watch blog. He lives in New Jersey. Ed Symkus, a Boston native, is film reviewer for GateHouse Media, Freetime Magazine (Rochester, NY), the Pacific Northwest Inlander (Spokane, WA), New England Cable News, and WCAP-AM (980)and is a freelance arts journalist. He's been offering opinions about films since he was dropped off at the Franklin Park Theatre in Dorchester when he was 6. His favorite movie is "And Now My Love." The one he despises most is "Liquid Sky." An Emerson College graduate, he helps plan the annual Boston Science Fiction Film Festival, is co-author of "Wrestle Radio U.S.A.: Grapplers Speak" (ECW Press), shook hands with Muhammad Ali, 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. 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 was 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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