About Me

Former night editor and blogger for AOL Moviefone, where I wrote the weekly new DVD release blog. Before Moviefone, I was the news editor at The Hollywood Reporter and, before that, the editor of Boxoffice Magazine. I'm webmaster of OnVideo.org, one of the longest-running home video sites on the Web, and also run Dreamsville.net and "The Adventures of Headless Barbie."

Interests

Film, home video, home audio (especially surround sound and SACD). Love my 2008 Mustang GT. On the film front, I thoroughly enjoy samurai and Asian horror outings. Also, I've gotten interested in films from DEFA (Deutsche Filmaktiengesellschaft), the state-run studios of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Surprisingly, many of these films questioned and criticised life under the East German communist regine.

Education

BA Journalism Cal State L.A.

Catfish
Catfish
2.5/4 stars

Here's a documentary about the world of online social relationships that starts out as a love story and ends up as a detective mystery. Nev, a 24-year-old New York-based photographer (and brother to the film's co-director), meets online an 8-year-old girl from rural Michigan who sends him a painting she made of one of his photos. Nev begins a frie...