Joe Leydon

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Joseph Patrick Leydon (born August 22, 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an award-winning film critic and historian. Currently a critic and correspondent for Variety, the "show business bible," and a contributing writer for MovieMaker magazine, he is the author of "Joe Leydon's Guide to Essential Movies You Must See" (Michael Wiese Productions), and host of http://movingpictureblog.blogspot.com/ and the website http://www.MovingPictureShow.com/. He also is communications director for Cowboys & Indians magazine, and an adjunct professor at Houston Community College and the University of Houston. Leydon was film critic for The Houston Post from 1982 until the paper’s demise in 1995. He has also reviewed films for the San Francisco Examiner, MSNBC.com, and NBC affiliate KPRC-TV in Houston. His work as a journalist, interviewer and feature writer has appeared in the New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Nashville Tennessean, The Boston Globe,The Toronto Star, and Austin American-Statesman; Film Comment and New Orleans magazines.