Jay Boyar
Publications: Orlando Life magazine Email Jay Jay Boyar is the arts editor for Orlando Life magazine. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Orlando Sentinel, Chicago Tribune, Newsday and Variety. Boyar has been a juror for the American Film Institute and is a founder of the Florida Film Critics Circle. He is a Pulitzer nominee and has […]
Jeff Farance
Publications: Daytona Beach News-Journal Email Jeff In more than 50 years of writing professionally for newspapers, he has been the Daytona Beach Film Critic for more than 20 years, in addition to serving as wine columnist, entertainment editor, travel editor, a food editor, and at a variety of other posts at The Daytona Beach News-Journal, where […]
Brad Sturdivant
Publications: Flix 66 Twitter: @flix66 Email Brad While most kids grow up playing little league baseball and riding bikes, Brad spent his formidable years watching old Marilyn Monroe and James Dean movies. Confused for a year after watching Some Like It Hot, he snapped out of it long enough to develop an affinity for […]
Lance Goldenberg
Publications: Freelance Email Lance Lance’s writings on film have appeared in numerous publications including the Village Voice, L.A. Weekly and Creative Loafing, where he served as the paper’s film critic and wrote a weekly film column from 1991 to 2008. He has worked closely over the years with the local film community in the […]
Philip Booth
Publications: Culture Pop: Sound & Screen, Jazziz, Jazzlands Instagram: @philipboothmedia61 Twitter: @culturepop Email Philip Philip Booth writes about film, TV, music and books for Culture Pop: Sound & Screen, Jazziz, Relix, Jazzlands and other local and national publications, and serves on the grand jury for the Gasparilla Film Festival. He has contributed movie coverage to the St. Petersburg Times, PopMatters, Tampa Tribune, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Orlando […]
Connie Ogle
Publications: The Miami Herald Twitter: @OgleConnie Email Connie Connie Ogle’s mother swears she began reading books in her crib at the ripe age of 6 months. She’s been working at The Miami Herald since the Palm Beach bureau had a bar in the lobby (let’s just call it the late ‘80s) and has been […]
Hap Erstein
Publications:Palm Beach ArtsPaper, WJNO Radio Email Hap Hap writes about film and theater for the Palm Beach ArtsPaper, in print and online, and can be heard reviewing the latest movies on WJNO radio (1290-AM) and on the station’s website. For 15 years, he covered the film and theater beats for The Palm Beach Post newspaper, […]
Michelle Solomon
Publications: Local10.com, Local6.com, WJXT.com, WPBF.com, MiamiArtZine.com Twitter: @mfsolomon Email Michelle Michelle F. Solomon is a syndicated movie critic, whose reviews appear on 52 local television websites across the U.S. and Hawaii for Internet Broadcasting Systems. In Florida, her weekly reviews are on Local 10.com in Miami, Local 6.com in Orlando, WJXT.com in Jacksonville, and WPBF.com […]
Bill Gibron
Publications: Film Racket, Popmatters, Filmcritic.com Twitter: @BillGibron Email Bill For the last 11 years, Bill Gibron has been a nationally-recognized film critic. His work has appeared in publications around the world, including stopovers at Film Racket.com, Filmcritic.com and PopMatters.com, as well as the McClatchy-Tribune Syndication Service. As a member of the Online Film Critics Society, […]
Steve Persall
Publications: Tampa Bay Times Twitter: @StevePersall Email Steve A founding member of the Florida Film Critics Circle, Persall was practically born into a career as a movie critic. He was conceived behind a drive-in theater, in a house that was part of his father’s deal to manage the place. Persall grew up in projector booths […]
