Helloooooo!!!!! My name’s Joey. As most people who have movie blogs are, I’m simply another person helplessly and hopelessly addicted to any and all things dealing with art on celluloid.
I guess you can say my obsession began in 2003 after creating an account for the amazing Internet Movie Database when I was only 13. I was a stubborn, opinionated kid who just wanted another excuse to shove his opinions about films on other people, as most cinemasnobs do. The creation of that account led to the discovery of millions of other people just like me, all in love with the world that cinema transports you to and the things the movies can inspire within us. It was then that I wrote my very first film review after attending a prescreening of Will Smith’s I, Robot. At the time, still being an Indie virgin, I thought it was the best thing I’d ever seen. I hurried home and typed up my short little review and showed it to my dad, who then showed it to all his friends at work. The review, to say the least, was nothing revolutionary, but the fact that other people read what I had to say about a film and accepted my opinions was bliss to me. Little did my father know that by showing that review to everyone he knew, he’d inspired something deeper within me. I couldn’t wait to see the next film I’d be able to share my opinion on, and so began the endless trips my mom and I would make to the local video store, renting everything from the latest Oscar-hyped films to charming Indie dramas. I was officially hooked on movies.
The next few years consisted of watching practically every “hip” Indie film under the sun on the weekends and reading reviews of some of the greatest movie critics of all time. I had to brush up on my Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin if I wanted to be a critic, right? I was then and will always remain a total sucker for a great Indie drama, but around 2005 I began to branch out and actually give the “mainstream” Hollywood films a chance. After reviewing movies on IMDB for two years, at 15 I wrote my very first review that would be published in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette newspaper. It was for Richard Kelly and Tony Scott’s uber-pretentious action picture Domino, starring Keira Knightley. I finished the review and sent it into one of the editors, John Hayes, who published it in the Entertainment section. I was elated to actually have one of my film reviews in circulation within the biggest paper in Western Pennsylvania.
Six published reviews later at age 17, I figured that I had already become what I dreamed to be; a full-fledged movie critic. I decided to join my school’s newspaper, The Montour Monitor, to get a few more published clips under my belt, moved on to college at the University of Pittsburgh, and hopefully I’ll be studying Film by the time Junior year rolls around.
All in all, that’s my story in a nutshell. I do some other things on the side, but my proudest accomplishments lie within my reviews. I love movies, and I love sharing my opinions about them with other people. Call me narcissistic, call me vain, but as every good movie critic will tell you, the bottom line is that my opinion matters and yours doesn’t. So sit back, relax, and read my reviews. You will like them. Really.
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