I've been a film critic since the early 2000s working for various websites, most notably FilmFanaddict/ShockingImages and NotComing.com, both now defunct. WordsAboutMovies will be my new home on the web to house my new reviews and eventually some of my older writings.
Essay: "It's Only a Movie? Reality as Transgression in Exploitation Cinema" From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse: Highbrow and Lowbrow Transgression in Cinema's First Century, Editors John Cline & Robert G. Weiner. Scarecrow Press, 2010.
Essay: "Cinemasochism: Bad Movies and the People Who Love Them." In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000: Essays on Film, Fandom, Technology and the Culture of Riffing. Editors Robert G. Weiner & Shelley Barba. McFarland & Company, 2011.
Essay: "Reinterpreting Myths in Spider-Man: The Animated Series." Web-Spinning Heroics: Critical Essays on the History and Meaning of Spider-Man. Editors Robert G. Weiner & Robert Peaslee. McFarland & Company, 2012.
Essay: "Episodes of Madness: Representations of the Joker in Television and Animation." The Joker: A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime. Editors Robert G. Weiner & Robert Peaslee. University Press of Mississippi, 2015.
Essay: "Frozen in Ice: Captain America's Arduous Journey to the Silver Screen." Marvel Comics into Film: Essays on Adaptations Since the 1940s. Editors Matthew J. McEniry, Robert G. Weiner & Robert Peaslee. McFarland & Company, 2016.
Essay: "The Cold War Turns Hot on TV: World War III in Television Movies." Are You In The House Alone?: A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999. Editor Amanda Reyes. Headpress, 2017.
My own book, Conspiracy Cinema: propaganda, politics, and paranoia was published by Headpress in 2012. A revised edition will be coming out in 2026.
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