About
I’m Jay Antani and CinemaWriter.com is my new site. CinemaWriter is all film reviews all the time.
Back in early 2006, I started a site called Perihelion Journal which I envisioned would be the home for all my film reviews, as well as fiction and non-fiction pieces written by me and a few of my colleagues in the graduate writing program at USC where, at the time, I was a student. But Perihelion got too big for one person to handle day in and day out. It was also a bit too cumbersome a site for regular updating.
So, in the fall of 2008, I started CinemaWriter, devoted solely and simply to film reviews — covering both recent and older films. This is where you go if you want my latest reviews. You’ll also find links to my reviews written for other outlets, most often for Filmcritic.com and Slant Magazine.
A bit about me: I’ve been a film critic and feature writer since 2002 when I began writing for the short-lived, little-known but very plucky Los Angeles Alternative newsweekly. A year or so later, I also started writing for Slant, Filmcritic, and, later, for Boxoffice Magazine and the world-cinema site Jaman.com.
The majority of my coverage has been for independent, international, classic and non-mainstream cinema because that’s where I think the most rewarding discoveries are to be made. Still, I love all kinds of movies — from classic and current Hollywood and World Cinema to documentaries and experimentals. If it’s good, what does it matter where it was made or what genre it is?
In 2004, I was inducted into the Online Film Critics Society and, in 2005, I became credentialled with the MPAA.
I hope you enjoy these reviews, and come back often. To access older film reviews at Perihelion Journal, please follow the All Previous Film Reviews link on the home page, or try this link.
I try to update Cinema Writer as often as I can, but, as this is a labor of love, a professional hobby if you will, I can’t devote as much time to it as I’d like. Oh, and feel free to leave comments. Feedback is always awesome.
June 3, 2009 at 7:10 pm |
Dear Jay,
I just recently viewed your website and I greatly enjoyed it. I’m sure you get alot of views. With that in mind, I have a movie I would like reviewed. I work for Slappy K-nappy Productions, a small film company in Austin, Texas and we just recently produced a feature length comedy titled “Sno Cone Inc,” starring Tony Sirico (“The Sopranos”) and Morgan Fairchild (“Chuck”). It’s a movie about three stock broker trainees who hate their job and their bosses, played by Sirico and Fairchild, and attempt to start their own business by opening up a sno cone stand. We plan on releasing it onto DVD nationwide on July 4th. If you would please get back to us on how we might get you to review it, I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you!
Sincerely,
George Cagle
P.S. If you wish to view the film’s website, it it http://snoconemovie.com