Film Junk is a website created by a group of film junkies in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada (about an hour away from Toronto, 15 minutes from Niagara Falls). We’re here to inject you with a weekly fix of movie news, reviews and rumors, all presented with a fun-loving and sarcastic edge. Covering the latest theatrical and DVD releases, plus occasional TV and pop culture happenings, we hope you’ll make Film Junk a daily stop on your travels around the web. Don’t forget to download our weekly podcast for a hit of entertaining film discussion and other unpredictable hijinks.

Screeners and press packages are always welcome, although we cannot guarantee everything will get reviewed. Get in touch if you want to send something, that way we can ensure that your material falls within our site’s content.

E-mail: filmjunk at gmail.com

Got a juicy scoop? Some hot inside info? A question for the podcast? We want to hear from you! Drop us a line, at the e-mail address above.

FAQ

1. Who are you?

These are the main contributors and members of the Film Junk Crew:

	Sean Dwyer » E-mail » Personal Blog » Facebook » Online DVD Collection » Top 100 Sean is a Computer Science graduate who is perpetually plugged in to media and pop culture. Video game programmer by day, he enjoys pondering and writing about movies and music in his spare time. Sean is the webmaster and editor of Film Junk, and in his spare time he also runs the Muzak For Cybernetics MP3 blog, his own personal blog Media Bytes, and contributes to The Documentary Blog. And occasionally he sleeps too.
	Jay Cheel » E-mail » Personal Blog » Facebook » Online DVD Collection » Top 100 Jay is a film school graduate who has been making his own movies ever since he was a kid; most recently he completed a documentary about time travel called Obsessed & Scientific. Jay writes for Film Junk, handles most of the site’s graphic design, co-hosts the podcast, and produces and edits all of our video content. He also runs The Documentary Blog and is currently employed as a video game cinematographer.
	Greg Gaspari » E-mail » MySpace » Facebook » Top 100 Greg is a broadcasting graduate who made a name for himself as “The Gasman” on 97.7 HTZ FM. His love of film has drawn him to the last 10 Toronto International Film Festivals, but his hatred for Toronto’s sports teams causes him grief every time he sets foot in T Dot. He is also a huge wrestling fan, and can be found emceeing all the wrestling pay-per-view events at Silvercity St. Catharines. Greg is a regular co-host for the Film Junk Podcast.
	Reed Farrington aka Darth Nameless » E-mail Reed Farrington aka Darth Nameless aka The Man with No Name is a mysterious personality within the Film Junk Universe. He is an obsessive collector, particularly of all things Star Trek, and is a huge science-fiction fan. In addition to starring in the hit Film Junk short film The Running Tunnel, Reed now also co-hosts a non-movie-related podcast with Jay called Cantankerous and writes a weekly Star Trek column called Treknobabble.
	Corey Pierce (aka The Pretentious Goon) » E-mail » Personal Site » Top 100 Outspoken and opinionated, Corey is a Sheridan College graduate and freelance illustrator with a style all his own. He writes for Film Junk and joins us on the podcast from time to time as well.
	Matt Raimondo » E-mail » Personal Site » Online DVD Collection » Top 100 Matt Raimondo is a university student working towards becoming a Film Studies professor. He has been both a turntablist/DJ and a martial artist for over a decade. He is obsessed with the 80’s and early 90’s and began writing for The 80’s Blog, but now contributes reviews to Film Junk, specializing in cult classics. He also makes guest appearances on the podcast.
	Tomas Bajuk Tom is a long-time friend of Film Junk, who has occasionally appeared on the podcast and also starred in many of our short films even before Film Junk ever existed. He is most well-known for doling out nuggets of wisdom as the star of the cult podcast Fishing With Tom.
	Chian Chia » E-mail A 3D artist, animator and graphic artist, Chian has most likely played every video game known to man. In the beginning he was a regular co-host on the podcast, and he still contributes by digging up some of the best viral videos on the internet for Weird Web Wednesdays.

Illustrations by Corey Pierce.

2. When/how did the site get started?

Film Junk originally began as an online zine called Space Junk that Sean first created back in 2000. The idea was to replicate the feel of a cut and paste zine while saving on photocopying and distribution costs, and the initial content was mainly a collection of personal stories and articles, in addition to music and movie reviews written by a group of friends. Eventually the site added daily news updates and a message board, and when the “blog revolution” hit, it seemed like a logical step to move to this newer, cutting edge format.

Eventually in 2006 we decided to narrow the focus of the site to be primarily movies, since that area fostered the most debate and discussion. Thus, Film Junk was born.

Our music coverage has since been relegated to a separate blog, Muzak For Cybernetics (www.indierockblog.com).

If you want a true history lesson, you can always visit the Wayback Machine archives to see the site’s various incarnations over the years.

3. When/how did you get into podcasting?

Sean and Jay used to host a few radio shows on CFBU , the Brock University campus radio station in St. Catharines. One was called Transmissions From Uranus, which often featured weekly movie reviews. At the time we tried to put up MP3s and audio streams of the shows online, but this was slightly before the bandwidth for online radio was readily available and there were a lot of technical barriers to overcome. We eventually left the radio station, but about a year later do-it-yourself internet radio shows began to catch on under the buzzword “podcasting”.

Missing the creative outlet that our weekly radio shows provided, and encouraged by the idea of broadcasting without any limitations, we decided in January 2005 to launch an audio companion podcast to the website. And we haven’t looked back since (until now, I mean).