Film Junk is a movie blog and podcast based in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada (about an hour away from Toronto, 15 minutes from Niagara Falls). Since 2006 we’ve been providing a daily dose of film news, reviews, and commentary, all presented with an honest, fun-loving and sarcastic edge. Covering the art house to the mainstream and everything in between, the site continues to grow in leaps and bounds, so be sure to add us to your daily travels around the web!

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Staff

Sean Dwyer

Sean is a Computer Science graduate and a part-time writer who is perpetually plugged in to pop culture. Video game programmer by day, he enjoys pondering and writing about movies and media 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.

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Jay Cheel

Jay is a film school graduate who has been making his own movies ever since he was a kid. He recently completed a short horror film called Colore Non Vedenti, and a short documentary about time travel called Obsessed & Scientific. He is currently working on his first feature length film, a documentary called Beauty Day. Jay writes for Film Junk, co-hosts the podcast, and produces and edits all of our video content. He also runs The Documentary Blog.

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Greg Gaspari

Greg is a broadcasting graduate who made a name for himself as “The Gasman” on 97.7 HTZ FM. His love of film brings him to the Toronto International Film Festival every year, but his hatred for Toronto’s sports teams causes him grief every time he sets foot in T Dot. He also can be found emceeing many pay-per-view and film events at the Empire Studio 8 in St. Catharines. Greg is a regular co-host for the Film Junk Podcast.

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Reed Farrington

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.

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Contributors

Kasper F. Nielsen

Kasper is a Business School graduate who works too little and writes too much. His love for all things 80’s and his loudmouthed behavior was what first got him into writing about film, as he took it upon himself to bring people’s attention towards the movies who really matter: old and corny action flicks. Apart from writing for Film Junk, Kasper also writes for the danish film site Filmz.dk.

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Curt Dwyer

I had come to Film Junk for the contributing writer position. The meeting was with Sean. He said “Tell me about yourself”. I replied “Sean. I’m your uncle.” Sean’s face looked like he was experiencing first contact. With a sigh, I offered a routine recitation of SF books read, movies seen, and articles published. Another question. “What are you really passionate about?” I said “You’re kidding, right?” I got the look again. So I described a visit to the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. How, in having my photo taken by my son, we inadvertently moved about ¼’ one of the superconducting magnets. Fortunately by crawling under the magnet and bracing my back against the second magnet, I was able to nudge the first back into place. “And it ran OK after that?” Sean asked. “As far as I know.” I said. “You’re hired.” (Curt writes about sci-fi in his Between Dimensions column.)

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Adam Volk

Adam Volk is a pop culture junkie, film geek and comic book collecting man-child. He has worked as a video game writer, book editor and freelance journalist with his work appearing on SF Site, Gamers Block, Comics Bulletin, Manga Life and The New York Review of Science Fiction. In his spare time he enjoys abusing alcohol, taking long walks by the beach and hunting vampires for sport. You can check out more of his witty blatherings at: www.zombie-geek.com.

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Wintle

Wintle is the former editor of The Horror Blog and co-host of The Macho Movie Review Podcast on The Movie Blog. His encyclopedic knowledge of genre films puts most of us to shame.

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Corey Pierce aka Goon

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.

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