Tom Long is the film critic for the Detroit News, and his writing is also distributed by the New York Times newswire.
A former rock singer with a degree in Aesthetic Studies, the first film Tom ever reviewed was "Die Hard" in 1988. Over the years he has been a music critic and TV critic but has always returned to film as his first love. He was named the full-time film critic for the News in 2001.
Born in New York City, Tom went to high school in southern California. After a decade of living as a hippie, he attended the University of California at Santa Cruz. He ended up staying in Santa Cruz for 20 years, working as a writer and musician, before moving to Michigan to work for the News in 1996. Over the years he has won seven national writing awards for criticism and commentary, along with numerous regional journalism awards. On the other hand, his guitar playing is truly terrible.
Website blog:
http://info.detnews.com/redesign/blogs/tomlongblog/index.cfm
Read his film reviews here: http://www.mlive.com/movies/ 
John Serba is the full-time film critic for The Grand Rapids Press. He has a B.A.in English from
When he's not working, John spends his time practicing free thought, and obsessing about the Detroit Red Wings, heavy metal, "The Simpsons," the newspaper comics page and his dog and cats.
Read his blog, Project Mayhem, here: http://blog.mlive.com/projectmayhem/about.html
Contact: jserba@grpress.com
Robin Swartz is the features editor at the Lansing
State Journal and has been reviewing films for the paper since 1996. She earned her bachelor's degree in journalism, with a minor in film studies, from Michigan State University. While at MSU, she spent a semester participating in the university's Film in Britain overseas studies program, watching dozens of movies, talking with British filmmakers and attending the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Robin has covered the Toronto International Film Festival for eight years, where she screens more than 30 films in week and interviews filmmakers and actors. She also can be seen each Thursday on the 5 p.m. newscast on WILX (Lansing's NBC affiliate), reviewing movies and previewing the weekend's entertainment highlights. Her reviews appear online at www.lsj.com and http://hub.lsj.com/.
Perry Seibert fell in love with movies at the tender age of 7 when Indiana Jones ran away from the giant boulder. Lucky to come of age at the same time as the VHS boom, he spent his teen years gorging on the best of American seventies cinema acquiring a taste for Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, and Woody Allen. After overdosing on foreign films and classic Hollywood during his college years at the University of Michigan, Perry found work as an editor at the All Movie Guide where he remains gainfully employed.
Perry’s Desert Island 10 – not necessarily the 10 best, just the 10 I can watch anytime, anywhere and still get something from:
- Taxi Driver
- Rules of the Game
- The Godfather
- Miller’s Crossing
- Singin’ in the Rain
- Blue Velvet
- Something Wild
- A Hard Day’s Night
- Do the Right Thing
- Before Sunset
He can be contacted at pseibert@macrovision.com, can be read regularly at http://www.allmovie.com/, and his favorite seat in any theater is the center of the third row.
Chris has been writing for the Advisor and Source since June 2005, covering news and features in Shelby Township and Utica, along with coverage of Utica Community Schools. During that time he also started writing the film reviews for the paper, a hobby that turned into a weekly responsibility. Chris can be contacted at Chris.Williams@advisorsource.com. His reviews can be found online at sourcenewspapers.com, suite101.com and on his blog at http://shadowsandthelight.blogspot.com/. Schlussel has made hundreds of appearances on cable and broadcast network TV and major radio stations around the country. Rush Limbaugh cited Debbie Schlussel’s website as one of the 13 sites he reads daily to prepare his nationally syndicated show, and in 2001, Ms. Magazine named Schlussel as one of its most hated women, in “Women to Watch Out For.” For several years, Schlussel appeared regularly on the nationally syndicated Howard Stern radio show. In 2002-2003, Debbie Schlussel hosted her own successful radio talk show on Detroit’s 97.1 FM. Schlussel maintains one of the top 75 conservative websites in the world, is the 14th most popular female blogger on the Net according to Alexa rankings, and has the 53rd most popular politics blog according to Wikio rankings. Her columns have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Jerusalem Post, The Detroit News, The Detroit Free Press, and she has been quoted or cited in hundreds of major newspapers around the world. She speaks several languages and was a member of MENSA (until she forgot to pay her dues).
Chris Williams is a reporter and film critic with the Advisor and Source Newspapers in Shelby Township and freelance writer with Suite101.com. He grew up in the Warren area, attended Warren Mott Senior High School and graduated with a Bachelor's in journalism from Wayne State University in 2001 with a minor in film studies.
Debbie Schlussel, is an attorney, columnist, and critic of pop culture, politics, and world affairs. She is also a movie critic for Sirius Patriot Channel 144’s “Mike Church Show” and WPHT Philadelphia’s morning radio show, “The Michael Smerconish Show,” on both of which her reviews are featured every Friday morning. She also reviews most new box office releases on her website, http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/movies/ where she has about 10,000 readers a day. Schlussel’s movie reviews have been featured on FOX News Channel, MSNBC, and Al-Jazeera, and her movie reviews have been quoted in The New York Times, USA Today, The Guardian UK, The Daily Mail, The Globe and Mail, The Telegraph, Toronto Star, Village Voice, and many other major newspapers around the world. She was profiled in the Wall Street Journal in a feature-length article.
James Sanford, I was born in Columbus, Ohio, but have lived in Michigan for the past 30 years. I started out reviewing movies for the long-gone Connections section of the Grand Rapids Press when I was a "teen reporter" (that was the actual designation on my work ID badge) in high school. I continued to do reviews throughout college when I wrote for the Western Herald at Western Michigan University. After graduation, I was the film critic for Music Revue magazine in west Michigan before moving over to On the Town magazine. I have been with the Kalamazoo Gazette for 11 years now and, in addition to my writing, I also discuss movies each week in a podcast at MLive and every Friday morning on WKFR-FM (103.3). I also host the "3-Day Weekend" segment on WWMT-3 every Thursday during the 5:30 p.m. newscast and I'm one of the correspondents for the PBS series "Kalamazoo Lively Arts," which airs in west Michigan on WGVU-35. In my spare time, I perform with the improvisational comedy group Crawlspace Eviction (our feature film "Comic Evangelists" was showcased at the 2006 American Film Institute Festival in Hollywood) and appear in a variety of shows in the Kalamazoo area. My recent credits include "Dinner with Friends" at the Knockabout Theatre, "Class Reunion" at the Kalamazoo Civic Theatre and "Psycho Beach Party," "Die! Mommy! Die!," "Said and Meant," "Bug," 'Bart the Temp," "Swindling Jehovah" and "Hair" at the Whole Art Theatre.
Website blog: http://blog.mlive.com/james_sanford/
Ed Bradley, In January of 2008, I said goodbye to a long journalism career to become film and video curator for the Flint Institute of Arts, where we run a weekly independent/international film series. From 1989 through 2007, I sat through many good movies and bad as entertainment editor/film critic of the Flint Journal.
I've authored two books, "The First Hollywood Musicals" (1996) and "The First Hollywood Sound Shorts" (2005), the latter of which was spun off from my master's thesis at the University of Michigan-Flint. My favorite film of all time: the obscure 1932 Bela Lugosi chiller "White Zombie." Website: http://www.mlive.com/flintjournal/entertainment/index.ssf/ed_bradley/
Born in Ann Arbor and raised in nearby Saline, Jason spent an inordinate amount of time perusing the shelves at his local video store during his youth - much to the contempt of anyone who happened to be with him at the time he was attempting to pick out a movie. After graduating from Saline High School, Jason enrolled in the Telecommunications and Film program at Eastern Michigan University - minoring in Journalism - and turned to the emerging internet "Grey Market" as a means of finally seeing the controversial and elusive foreign films he had been reading about for years: "El Topo," "Meet the Feebles," and "Four Flies on Grey Velvet" just to name a few. It was during this period that Jason supported himself with a job at one of the area's last "mom and pop" video stores, a place where fifth-generation copies of "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" and "Duck, You Sucker" purchased from Video Search of Miami sat on the shelves right next to legitimately distributed copies of the latest Hollywood blockbusters. Jason is a writer who firmly believes that every film critic should have a good bit of experience behind the camera before sitting down to judge the cinematic works of others, and since college he's been involved in the production of a number of independent features and shorts.
Jason Buchanan has been obsessed with movies ever since the day he was playing with matchbox cars on the living room floor while his father was watching A Clockwork Orange on television - mistakenly assuming that the cinematically-smitten toddler wasn't intrigued by the extreme oddities that were unfolding on the screen just a few feet away. Though his parents would subsequently attempt to restrict his movie viewing habits after fumbling over some particularly difficult questions regarding that audacious Stanley Kubrick classic, the damage had already been done and Jason's lifelong quest to seek out the strangest films ever produced had been set into motion.
Favorite Filmmakers: Alex de la Iglesia, Alejandro Jodorowski, Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Jim Van Bebber, Jaume Balaguero, Michele Soavi, Michel Gondry, George A. Romero, Peter Jackson, Werner Herzog, Chan-wook Park, Tsui Hark, Herman Yau, John Woo, Takashi Miike, Sergio Corbucci, Lucio Fulci, Guillermo Del Toro, Katsuhito Ishii.
Favorite Films: Suspiria, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Super Fuzz, Manson Family, Day of the Beast, Dawn of the Dead, The Great Silence, Dellamorte Dellamore, Santa Sangre, Jacob's Ladder, Nosferatu, Coffy, Black Belt Jones, The Devil's Backbone, Visitor Q, True Romance, Black Sunday, Uzumaki.
Website: http://blog.allmovie.com/author/jasbuc/
Adam Kelly, works professionally as the graphic artist for WJRT/ABC12 based in Adam graduated in 2005 with a BFA in Animation & Digital Media with a concentration in Digital Cinema from the prestigious College for Creative Studies in In the past three years, Adam has received seven (7) Michigan Chapter EMMY awards for his broadcast design work. A movie geek his entire life, Adam can usually be found at the local area Cineplex, or in his backyard making his own films. He hates the word ‘critic’ as he considers himself more of a movie enthusiast. Adam resides in Adam’s movie reviews can be seen every Friday on ABC12 News First at Four, and on WJRT’s website: www.abc12.com.
List of Members of The Detroit Film Critics Society for the 2009-2010 season (in alphabetical order) Kirk Baird – The Toledo Blade Jason Buchanan – allmovie.com Colette Evangelista - Capital Women's Lifestyle Magazine Adam Graham – The Detroit News Corey Hall – The Metro Times Tom Long – The Detroit News Jeff Meyers – The Metro Times Robin Miner-Swartz – The Lansing State Journal Chad Mitchell – The Chad Show John Monaghan – The Detroit Free Press Warren Pierce – WJR Radio Greg Russell – WMYD-TV James Sanford – The Kalamazoo Gazette Debbie Schlussel – Sirium Patriot Channel 144’s Mike Church Show and WPHT Philadelphia http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/movies/ Perry Seibert – allmovie.com John Serba – The Grand Rapids Press Lee Thomas -- Fox TV2 Detroit Greg Walton – WIOG/KRSP Chris Williams – Advisor & Source Newspapers 
Chad Mitchell, Since June 2007, I've hosted "The Chad Show" on 106.7 The Fox (WDTW/Detroit). As far as my history...I started at KZ93 in Peoria, IL & then it was on to B96 Chicago with "Eddie & Jobo." I also wrote funny songs for radio stations across the country at the same time. Well, they seemed funny at the time.... I produced for "Scott & Todd" at WPLJ New York as well as The Loop and WLS in Chicago. You heard me on the old WDRQ here in Detroit. From 2000-2007, I was part of "Mojo In The Morning" on our sister station --- Channel 955.
Jim Fordyce is a nationally known award winning Entertainment Reporter. His previews, reviews and entertainment news are featured on the Jack Ebling show on 1320 WILS radio in Lansing, Michigan and he is the man who brings you http://www.mientertainment.biz/JimsMovieReviews.html the popular web site devoted to Michigan entertainment news.
He has been in the media since 1972 and he has interviewed a countless number of talented people who entertain and inspire us . Among his favorite interviews: Frankie Avalon, Robert Goulet, Will Ferrell and Linda Evans
Jim lives in Lansing in his 100 year old historic house, so look for him in the home improvement store when he is not in the audience reviewing plays and movies.
He proudly serves on the Boards for the YMCA, Burcham Hills Foundation, Sunsets with Shakespeare Theater Company and he is a member of the Detroit Movie Critics Guild.
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Jim Fordyce – MIentertainment.biz
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