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. 

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 14^th most popular female blogger on the Net according to Alexa rankings, and has the 53^rd 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).   

 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/
 
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. 

 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.

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/

  Jim Fordyce is a nationally known award winning Arts, Leisure and Entertainment Reporter on Radio, TV and the internet.  His previews, reviews and entertainment news are featured on www.MIentertainment.biz  the popular web site devoted to Michigan entertainment news.

His daily radio report is heard across the nation at www.americanentertainmentreport.com  and his company recently launched www.coachellafun.com  in Palm Springs, California

He has been a film critic since he was a little boy. His first reported review came in 1961. Popular folk lore says that when he was 5, his mouth was washed out with soap after his mother took him to see “Snow White and the Three Stooges” and she asked him what he thought of the movie.  In the media since 1972, he has reported on many subjects and 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 He proudly serves as a volunteer for the YMCA, is one of the biggest Star Trek fans you will ever meet and a self proclaimed expert on 60’s and 70’s TV.  

Jim, who is  also a sought after media consultant  divides his time between Michigan, Palm Springs, California, and the place he grew up, the magnificent Hudson Valley in New York.

  Adam Graham covers pop music and pop culture for The Detroit News. Prior to becoming the paper's music man, Adam covered pop culture as a general assignment features reporter and penned a daily celebrity column that more or less focused on the daily exploits of Pete Doherty. http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=OPINION0360
Adam, a lifelong fan of music and movies, grew up in Rochester, Mich., and graduated with a degree in journalism from Central Michigan University. While he appreciates high art, Adam's true love is trash culture, from horror movies to professional wrestling to heavy metal. The trashier, the better. Adam also covers "American Idol" for The News, which probably says something about his love of trash. Reach him at agraham@detnews.com.