Contributors

Current Contributors

Bob Ignizio, Editor

Bob Ignizio has lived in Northeast Ohio his whole life.  He got his start as a writer working for various music fanzines in the nineties, and from 2002 until 2006 ran the underground music and film website Utter Trash.  Bob started writing movie reviews for the Cleveland Free Times in March of 2008, moved to Scene Magazine when the two alternative news weeklies merged later that year, and remained there until September 2010 when he left to start the Cleveland Movie Blog.  When not watching movies and writing about them, Bob is a house husband and stay at home dad.

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Joseph Anthony

Joseph Anthony is a native of Ohio. A graduate of Bowling Green, Joseph now teachers early American history, which is his first joy. Throughout his life Joseph has enjoyed various arts, including, writing and playing music, painting, writing short stories and all things film.  He is a frequent friend to the Cedar Lee Theatre and enjoys all sorts of film. 

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Charles Cassady, Jr.

Charles Cassady Jr. was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His first lucid memory of watching a movie in a theater? The Bob Hope vehicle CANCEL MY RESERVATION. Talk about an at-risk childhood. That pretty much ended his chances for a normal life. Many issues of "American Film" and "Famous Monsters of Filmland" later, young-adult Cassady was idling in Europe in a semester-abroad program when mysterious strangers of devious foreign manufacture beckoned and offered a gig to write movie reviews for a dollar apiece. And thus did Charles Cassady's routine as a malformed, shunned mutant outcast come to an end. Now he was a malformed, shunned, mutant outcast film critic. He has contributed to the Cleveland Free Times, the Morning Journal of Lorain, Scene, Video Librarian, the VideoHound book series, the CineBooks Motion Picture Guide, the Cleveland International Film Festival Program Guide and an epic-scale niche-movie guidebook that remains tragically unseen thanks to the financial meltdown of the publisher. Author of "2001" and inventor of the communications satellite, he now lives in retreat in Sri Lanka where he ponders the mysteries of this and other worlds. Okay, that last sentence was hijacked from an intro to Arthur C. Clarke; Cassady has to pad his resume from time to time. Cassady's fondest wish: for the Wizard to grant him brains, a heart and courage. Meantime, there's always movies to write about...

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Matthew Finley

Matt Finley is a writer and, sometimes, a cartoonist. He has contributed sentences and/or pictures to numerous outlets of varying legitimacy, including WeirdThings.com, The New York Press, the NSFW podcast and The Cleveland Independent. His favorite movies are ones with monster autopsy scenes. His least favorite are ones where the main character has or gets amnesia, but not MEMENTO. He likes that one.

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Marcie Gainer

Marcie Gainer was born and raised in North Canton, Ohio. She attends New York University and has lived in NYC for the past three years. She majors in Cinema Studies with minors in Documentary Filmmaking and Producing and will be graduating at the end of this year. Marcie has previously worked at Arts Engine (which, sadly, has shut its doors this past September) where she helped organize the Media That Matters ’11 film festival. She has also volunteered for this past year’s Telluride Film Festival. Marcie plans to continue her work within the film festival circuit while continuing to write about film.

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Pete Roche

Pete Roche is a probation officer who has called Ohio home for 38 of his forty years. He majored in English at Bowling Green State University and earned a JD/MPA at Cleveland State University. He has contributed articles to Scene Magazine, The Plain Dealer, and Experience Hendrix Magazine. He has held part-time jobs at Jacob’s Field, Municipal Stadium, and House of Blues.  Pete resides on Cleveland’s west side with his wife and two kids.

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Pamela Zoslov

Pamela Zoslov has been editing, writing for, and getting the heave-ho from publications all over Northeast Ohio since the 1980s, including Cleveland Magazine, the Cleveland Edition, Northern Ohio Live, Sun Newspapers and the Cleveland Free Times (where she was managing editor). She has won Press Club and Ohio SPJ Awards for film and media criticism, and continues to ply her editing skills in various venues and write film reviews and occasional features for Cleveland Scene.

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Occasional Contributors

Ben Lybarger

Ben Lybarger was a precocious fetus languishing in the uterine abyss, until one day he was suddenly launched into the wintry realm of Columbus, Ohio, a screaming, asthmatic malcontent. During the subsequent three and a half decades he slowly morphed into an embittered global vagrant of makeshift means, and a shiftless collector of unused Bachelor’s degrees. To while away the time between careless pursuits and his sporadic employment, he propagated a literary rag and a music fanzine, in addition to scattering his seed across other publications such as Penumbra, Luna Negra, The Iconoclast, Razorcake, Alternative Press, Utter Trash, Modern Drunkard, and so on. Ben enjoys modestly decrying his own mediocre talents while secretly nurturing messianic fantasies. He is also a failed bulemic and an aspiring midwife.

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Past Contributors

Eddie Fleisher
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Jeff Niesel 
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