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The Flickcast is about movies, television, comics, video games and all things geek. From Star Wars to BSG to Star Trek, Citizen Kane, The Dark Knight, X-Men, Avengers, Green Lantern, Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed, Apple, the iPhone, gadgets, gear, photography and more, The Flickcast team will discuss, debate, entertain and enlighten with critical and insightful commentary on entertainment and all things geek of the past, present and future.
Along with the weekly podcast, The Flickcast website offers news, interviews, reviews, columns and other content to inform, enlighten and entertain on a daily basis. Be sure to check every day for all your movie, tv, comic, video game and geek info right here at The Flickcast.
The Flickcast Team
Chris Ullrich, Editor-in-Chief
Chris began his professional career working in the entertainment industry as a writer, production manager and producer. During that time, he also became a member of the Director’s Guild of America. He has extensive experience creating content and producing feature films, series television, music videos, commercials and many other types of projects.
Chris now spends the majority of his time writing and producing online content. He has contributed to some of the most popular and respected sites on the Internet including The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Comic Mix, Comic Book Resources, Cinematical, Download Squad and LAist. In addition, he also writes a personal blog and is working on several film and tv related projects including The Flickcast podcast and website.
When he’s not working, Chris likes to take pictures, work with the latest gadgets and tech (especially from Apple), read comic books, play video games, watch movies and tv shows, go to lunch, sleep and drink at least one Starbucks’ iced-grande-soy one-pump-no-whip-mocha a day. Although, he’s seriously considering a switch to ice coffee (with soy) just to mix things up.
He’s also very fond of bios written in the third person which make him sound far more important than he actually is. For more about Chris, check out his personal website here. Or, follow him on Twitter here.
Matt Raub, Managing Editor
When Matt says he grew up in a comic box, he doesn’t mean figuratively. He was just a baby when his parents opened up a large chain of comic stores across the East Coast. This lead Matt to play the role of “resident comic guy” in just about every social circle growing up, which inevitably transitioned him into science fiction and fantasy in TV and movies.
Since then, Matt has made film and television his passion, which even brought him to compete in 2008’s Netflix Movie Watching World Championship, where 8 contestants competed in a glass box in the center of Times Square to see who could sit through the most movies-in a row-without falling asleep or being distracted. Matt tapped out just shy of 24 hours.
Even today, Matt makes it a goal to be apart of film in whatever capacity possible, from editing, to writing, to production assistant, even to going back to his high school to teach other kids about the magic of movies. Matt, now only 22 years old, has already tackled such jobs as radio personality, writer, critic, video editor, and believe it or not, professional wrestler.
One day, he hopes to add “kick ass podcast host” to his list of accomplishments as well. For more about Matt, check out his personal website here. Or follow him on Twitter here.
The Definition of “Geek Chic.” Comic books, sci-fi movies, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Lord of the Rings and more all rolled up in a Diesel wearing, club going socialite package. Having worked in both advertising and television, John is a lifetime writer always being a part of the creative process. John knows the television world between his experience on being involved with the production process of over two hundred episodes of prime time tv and being a self admitted media whore.
Yes he has a weakness for trash tv, Michael Bay-esque action movies and the raunchy teen comedy as well. Never try to debate the Original Star Wars Trilogy versus Star Trek with him because the Holy Trilogy always comes out on top. Having partied with movie stars to Playboy centerfolds, John is somehow always able to find someone’s inner geek.
The simplest rules that John lives by is to have fun and doing what makes him happy. There’s no shame in being a geek. Play Halo, read Spider-Man and proudly display the whole series of Neon Genesis: Evangelion on your DVD rack. And most importantly, make sure to read his weekly comic book pull list reviews at The Flickcast. For more about John, follow him on Twitter here.
For as long as he can remember, he’s loved stories. From an early age he would spend hours reading, watching TV, writing, drawing and creating. Labeled a “genius” as a young man, Joe took it to heart and found very little use for school and academic pursuits. Instead, he concentrated on advancing himself in all areas of entertainment knowledge and creative endeavors.
Now, Joe joins the rest of The Flickcast team covering all the things he’s always loved: movies, tv, comics, games and all things geek. He truly is in his element and loves ever minute of it. For more from Joe, follow him on Twitter here.
I grew up watching my uncle, the late Howard Keel, perform on screen and stage. Consequently, I was fascinated with the world of entertainment from a very young age. I have been obsessed with movies as long as I can remember. Academy Award Sundays are a regular designated holiday in my household.
I went off to college a Journalism major, and emerged with an Anthropology degree instead. A few digs later, I found out that Archeology is not as exciting as depicted in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and no archeologists remotely resemble Harrison Ford. I went back to school, this time earning a slightly more practical Dental Hygiene degree. I practiced Dental Hygiene for 5 years before staying home to raise two daughters.
Now, I am finally back to writing and movies, my two loves. You can find some of my other pop culture musings over at My Site and follow me on Twitter.
Sal Loria is obsessed. Obsessed with comics, movies, television, music… essentially, he’s a media whore. Rest assured, if there’s some form of media in his general vicinity he’ll lunge faster than Courtney Love at a pharmaceutical convention. Not content with just media, he’s also a rabid sports fan, particularly basketball, and is one of the finest armchair quarterbacks you’ll ever see. At least he thinks so. But how did he wind up here? Read on, true believer…
When Pappa Loria bought young Sal his first stack of comics, little did he know that he’d created a monster. A lifetime of comic devouring ensued, leading to today where Sal is a freelance writer for Wizard Magazine, after spending a couple of years contributing to WizardUniverse.com. Feeling that wasn’t enough, he’s recently bought into a local comic shop where he hopes to build an empire one day. And of course, he’s joined up with The Flickcast crew to further infect the pop culture community.
You’re more than welcome to follow him on Twitter, but be forewarned: he never shuts up.
John Muth is a freelance writer and designer and tried and true movie/pop culture enthusiast. Raised in a home that had access to nearly every movie channel available at the time, he’s seen movies no one else remembers, remembers things no one else has seen, and really likes Westerns a little more than he probably should. Three of his favorite movies ever are Unforgiven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Once Upon A Time in the West.
His design portfolio can be seen at Muthmedia and his personal movie blog where he talks about the movies he sees that he really likes (or just feels the need to talk about), is movies4me. At his blog there’s more likely to be a thread about The Girlfriend Experience and Descent (the Rosario Dawson film) than X-Men Origins: Wolverine or All About Steve. He can also be found on Twitter.
David Press lives in Manhattan where he goes to graduate school for writing at Brooklyn College and has written about comics and movies for MTV’s Splash Page and Comic Book Resources. He will be recommending comics and writing Indy Movie Reviews leaving the blockbusters to Chris and Matt.
For more about him, you can go to his personal site or to his blog on Tumblr, because he has the attention span of a mouse. The picture is of him (on the right) and Joss Whedon, the biggest wish-fullfillment moment in David’s nerd life.
Elisabeth Rappe had every intention of becoming the English professor students hoped they didn’t get. While she loved movies, television, Star Wars and X-Men, and dreamed of a career in Hollywood, she decided to be practical and go to college for the liberal arts. For years, she tried to decide whether pursue graduate studies in Russian history or medieval literature while putting off her math credits, and reenacting Lethal Weapon with likeminded friends on lunch breaks. (She was always Riggs).
She decided on medieval literature, broke the school record for longest honors thesis, and promptly flunked math. Dreams of academia destroyed, and unable to impress employers with her knowledge of mead cup rituals, she turned to movies and the Internet for solace. She realized that as much as she loved Beowulf, she had always been awfully distracted during Old English class wondering who could play him in a movie. On a crazy whim, she applied to Cinematical and was hired. To this day, she can’t figure out why anyone allows her to talk about movies and comics professionally.
A humble writer, she hopes to be more involved with making films over simply writing about them, but for now her proximity to that world is pretty sweet and envious. A beer and Chanel kind of girl, she likes movies with explosions, guns, nudity, coarse language, and Clint Eastwood. You can follow her on Twitter or on her personal blog.
The first movie Bob ever saw in a theater was Star Wars Episode IV : A New Hope (but back then geeks just called it Star Wars). He was only three but from that experience came two things: the foundation of his geek nature and the aspiration to one day get his own film on the big screen. The latter happened in 2008 when Bob’s war drama, The Sandbox, played in select theaters in Indiana. Since then Bob has written two other Indie films but realized his true passion for writing lies in more journalistic pursuits.
Taking his background in technology, love of entertainment and the written word Bob focuses on being a tech savvy entertainment journalist. Embracing the Web and social media sites like Twitter Bob strives to bring Hollywood news to as many readers as he can. Lucky enough to have crossed “Meet the real Boba Fett” off his bucket list, Bob still hopes to report from the San Diego Comic-Con one day and cross paths with Aaron Sorkin. When Bob’s not writing (when is that again?) he’s spending time with his wife and two kids, playing technical support for his family, watching TV or going to movies.
You can keep up with Bob on Twitter, his site, but most importantly here at The Flickcast.
Heather Toshiko is a lifelong fan of Archie and Harvey Comics, 80’s films and Aaron Sorkin. She has extremely high standards for her cinematic experiences and thus will only watch comedies as long as they’re stupid, crass, or inappropriate. Titanic, Schindler’s List and anything with Miley Cyrus are films she will never see so long as she has the motor skills to change the channel. She will, however, repeatedly watch Super Troopers, Gone With the Wind, Heathers, and porn.
Heather has been writing since she attended a snooty prep school in Southern California and was the Editor-in-Chief of her high school paper for two consecutive years. She also interned at a community paper where her articles and photos were published, and she maintains her own irreverent and inconsequential blog at HeatherToshiko.com.
Heather is half Irish and half Japanese, so when she gets drunk, she drives much better. Her B.S. in Criminal Justice, Magna Cum Laude, has done nothing for her except give people the opportunity to make “Cum Loudly” jokes, and occasionally make her feel superior when she drives by the local junior college. When she isn’t writing for The Fllickcast, she’s doing her grownup job and thinking of new jokes about current tragic celebrity deaths. For more from Heather, follow her on Twitter here.
Christina Warren is a writer, speaker and video host. She is the deputy editor at The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Download Squad and a contributor to AOL’s StyleList blog. When not writing about technology or fashion, she can usually be found espousing about the entertainment industry on Twitter or with anyone who happens to be nearby.
A Film and Video Production major in college, Christina has had a life-long love affair with cinema. Seeing Follow That Bird in the theater at age 2 and a half changed her life, leading her on a personal quest to become a media mogul (like Rupert Murdoch with only some of the evil).
For more about Christina, check out her personal website here.
An aspiring writer and lover of all things cinema, Cortney has been into movies for as long as she can remember. From horror to comedy to animated, she is constantly searching for the latest and greatest news on film, which lead her to The Flickcast and made her want to write news of her own.
Among other things, she enjoys getting tattooed, eating at Chipotle, writing short stories, sweatshirts, outer space, and playing Plants Vs. Zombies. Cortney attends SUNY Binghamton, where she double majors in English and Film.
For more from Cortney, follow her on Twitter or check out her blog here.
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