Joe Williams (film critic)
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Joe Williams is the film critic for the daily St. Louis Post-Dispatch[1] (#29 among U.S. newspapers[2]) and the Web site STLtoday.com[3] in St. Louis, Missouri. He has been a staff writer for the newspaper since 1996. From 2003-2006, he was the on-camera movie reviewer for St. Louis TV station KMOV, and he is a frequent guest on radio and television broadcasts in the region.
[edit] Biography
Williams is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where his mentor was the novelist T.C. Boyle, and of the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri.
From 1988-90, Williams was a staff writer for the music industry trade magazine Cash Box in Los Angeles, California. He is also the author of "Entertainment on the Net" (Que Publishing, 1996), which was one of the first comprehensive guides to music, movie and television sites on the Internet.[4]
Williams' reviews, columns and interviews with celebrities are syndicated to newspapers across the U.S., and his reviews are excerpted on the popular Web sites Rotten Tomatoes[5] and Metacritic.[6] Williams serves as a juror, panelist and adjunct host for the annual St. Louis International Film Festival.
[edit] References
- ^ http://moviecitynews.com/voices/2009/090302_critics.html The Last 126 Film Critics in America
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_States_by_circulation
- ^ http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/movies/
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/dp/0789701227/ Amazon page for "Entertainment on the Net"
- ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/author/author-11677/ Rotten Tomatoes page for Joe Williams
- ^ http://www.metacritic.com/movie/publications/stlouispostdispatch/williamsjoe Metacritic page for Joe Williams
