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Alex Segura is the best-selling and award-winning author of the crime novels Alter Ego and Secret Identity. He has also written a number of comic books, including Star Wars, Dick Tracy, and The Question: All Along the Watchtower. His next...
Roger Durling has been the executive director of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival for twenty-three years. He has been teaching film studies at Santa Barbara City College for just as long. He helped edit a book on Alfonso Cuarón’s...
Jim Cirronella is a science-fiction and horror film aficionado who has contributed to the Criterion Collection’s Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 and Night of the Living Dead editions.
Originally from Mexico City, Carlos Aguilar is a Los Angeles–based film critic and journalist. Aguilar’s work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Variety, and IndieWire, among others. He is a member of...
Guy Lodge is the UK film critic for Variety, a weekly home-entertainment columnist for the Observer, and coeditor of Film of the Week. Born and raised in South Africa, he is now based in London.
Alexandra Schwartz is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a cohost of the magazine’s culture podcast Critics at Large.
Tayler Montague is a writer, curator, native New Yorker, and director of the award-winning short film In Sudden Darkness.
Brian Hu is associate professor of Television, Film, and New Media at San Diego State University. He is also the artistic director of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, and the author of Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong...
Zakes Mda is a visiting professor in the English department of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg; a creative-writing adjunct at Johns Hopkins University; and an emeritus professor of English at Ohio University.
Film journalist Craigh Barboza teaches at New York University and has written for Cineaste, Film Comment, and the Hollywood Reporter. His book John Singleton: Interviews, a study of the director’s work, is part of the series Conversations with Filmmakers (University...