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By CB: 2008-08-22 03:21:27

What is this place? Cinema Blend, can't you read?

We are what you see. A massive site filled to the brim with thousands of mildly interesting, occasionally exciting editorials, reviews, reports, previews, and half-crazed rants written by CB Head Honcho Josh Tyler and the crack staff of Cinema Blend writers. Pull your pants up guys! We're based in Dallas, Texas, but have writers chiming in from all over the country and the world. Gives us that sexy European flair you've heard so much about.

We're defined by our writers, and our staunch refusal as a group and a community to be held back, reigned in, or influenced by free t-shirts. We'll take free t-shirts, it just won't affect us. Oh and while we're at it we do our best to be snarky, fun, and informative. Sometimes, we even do all three at once.

If you're lucky, you might have seen our work other places too. Currently we're syndicated in print and on the web to people who think we're worth forcing their subscribers to read. Throw all that in a pot and we're read by millions of people every month all around the world.

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Josh Tyler
Title: Head Honcho/Editor In Chief
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Known To Say: "Needs more Shatner!"

A Lie: On weekends Josh drapes himself in flannel and goes door to door crushing people's hopes and dreams.

Katey Rich
Title: Managing Editor
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Known To Say: "It's kind of like a cheesy Vegas show, like Siegfried & Roy or Wayne Newton: It's silly, it's over-the-top, you're miserable, your Mom made you come, but you spent the whole time trying to hide the smile on your face. Don't worry, you're safe here. We never have to speak of this again. When it comes out on DVD, you're invited to my sing-along viewing party."

A Lie: Katey was the real-life inspiration for Lawrence of Arabia.

Rafe Telsch
Title: Film & DVD Editor
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Known To Say: "One day we'll be that big, of course the forums will be unbearable by then."

A Lie: On the weekends Rafe plays Role Playing Games with Wil Wheaton and Vin Diesel - that is to say, Rafe's friends role play, pretending to be Wil and Vin. We're still not sure if even Rafe's friends are more than imaginary at this point.

Glen Boyd
Title: Music Editor
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Known To Say: "If someone wants to pay me good money to attend Springsteen shows, I'll be more than happy to turn this damn computer off and just walk away. In the meantime, I like my beer cold, my women hot, and my music loud. Rock and Roll has also ruined me for life. Any questions?"

A Lie: I did not ruin my life by spending over twenty years of it working in the record industry. I also do not like my beer cold, my women hot, and my music loud.

Pete Haas
Title: Games Editor
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Known To Say: "Playing GTA: San Andreas was like owning a Boyz N the Hood Special Edition Tamagotchi."

A Lie: Pete was the uncredited dialogue writer for the "Street Fighter vs. Marvel Comics vs. Naruto vs. Bubble Bobble" fighting game.

Mack Rawden
Title: Celeb Editor
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Known To Say: "I plan on raising my kids in a seedy environment of second hand smoke, swearing, and gradual disappointment. The type of place where only artists and madmen thrive and the sane ooze into debauchery."

A Lie: Mack is the byproduct of a passionate one night stand between Michael O'Donoghue and Adam's first wife Lilith. He legally divorced his parents at sixteen after both panned his first novel, Madame Ovary, as being "largely uninspired" and "a bit juvenile." It was never published.

Kelly West
Title: TV Editor
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Known To Say: "In addition to desperately wanting to dig in to one of Ned's delicious looking pies, I also wouldn't mind having Jim Dale follow me around for a few days, narrating even the most mundane details of my life."

A Lie: Kelly has received multiple job offers from Seattle Grace Hospital, Mode Magazine, DHARMA, Dunder Mifflin and Primatech Paper Company but turned them all down in order to devote more time to Cinema Blend.

Steve West
Title: Tech Editor
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Known To Say: "Welcome Lex, please stick around and scheme a bit."

A Lie: Steve invented a 32-nanometer chip in 1997, but decided there was no need for it. Technology has since been at a near standstill compared to it's potential. Steve currently writes for Cinema Blend as penance for "impeding necessary technological advancements.

William Usher
Title: Games Assistant Editor
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Known To Say: "Seeing someone’s entrails slowly spill out, as they scream and crawl across a blood-drenched beach, is simply repulsive."

Ed Perkis
Title: Staff Writer
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Known To Say: "It’s like what you get at Jamba Juice, but cheaper and not quite as healthy."



Leanne Cari
Title: Staff Photographer / Database Manager
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Chris Graham (Into)
Title: Forum Administrator
Contact: Forum IM


Matt Norris
Title: Forum Administrator
Contact: Forum IM

Known To Say: "If I was going to pick a young man to play Princess Diana, Keira Knightley would be that young man."

Matt Sinopoli
Title: Graphics Guru
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Known To Say: "Can I get a Smizzle version?"

Stuart Wood (Crappertay)
Title: Forum Administrator
Contact: Forum IM

Known To Say: "Ridley was always be 'Ridley', the dude was a bad ass director when he was doing TV commercials in the early 70's.....Paul Anderson will always be the director of Mortal Kombat."



Dustin Christian
Title: TV Writer

Known To Say: "Good luck to you, Jason Mesnick, in your very very public search for love. May you find what almost no other contestant on these shows has found, but you best stop making googly eyes at my woman. I'll be watching you, Mesnick."

Erin Dougherty
Title: TV Writer

Known To Say: "Who says TV isn't good for kids? I knew a girl who stayed in high school because she saw the prom episode of Beverly Hills, 90210."

Charmaine Dennis
Title: TV Writer

Known To Say: "JC feels a little funny watching white dudes booty shakin'. Don't know why; they were really good, on par with a lot of club girls I've seen. Oh, maybe that's why."

Kona Gallagher
Title: TV Writer

Known To Say: "It would be rude to compare Britney's performance to that of a tired stripper with glazed-over eyes working the Wednesday 11am-6pm shift at a club by the truck stop, teetering across the stage in too-high heels while a lit cigarette hangs out of the corner of her mouth, leaving a trail of ashes in her wake... so I won't."

Jessica Grabert
Title: Music Writer

Known To Say: "Juxtaposing Tom Petty's voice with Mike Campbell's guitar rifts is like having sex between Egyptian cotton sheets—it may not be the most technically astounding collaboration, but it sure fucking feels good."

Scott Gwin
Title: Movies Writer / Box Office Guru

Known To Say: "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo has been hailed by some as Rob Schneider's funniest movie. Please bear in mind, that's kind of like saying "She Bangs" is William Hung's best song."

Brian Holcomb
Title: DVD Critic

Known To Say: "Of course we want to see the man drawn and quartered; hopefully in great detail."

Tim Kennard
Title: Podcast Co-Host

Known To Say: "I've got a man crush on Ryan Reynolds and I'm not afraid to admit it."

Rich Knight
Title: Games/DVD Writer

Known To Say: "Crescent Galaxy and Primal Rage...rounded out the system as "good games." And if those were the "good games", I'd hate to play the "bad" ones. Do the Math, dude, you + Jaguar = loser."

Amanda Krill
Title: TV Writer

Known To Say: "Donald Trump is officially more evil than viagra which is a yuge statement."

Mariana McConnell
Title: Movies Writer

Known To Say: "While the fact that Winehouse didn’t go all Clockwork Orange on the British police is a disappointment to this writer, at least she can check “get arrested twice” off her list of things to do before she flames out in a cloud of crack smoke courtesy of new pal Pete Doherty."

Emily McDonald
Title: Movies Writer

Known To Say: "Amy Adams getting sucked into the Meg Ryan vortex troubles me."

J.D. McNamara
Title: DVD Critic

Known To Say: "And just in case you're keeping score, Beckham gets the nod for better hair as well."

Rema Rahman
Title: Music Writer

Known To Say: "I'm sorry to hear that you are upset your shitty band failed to get a Grammy Awards nomination. I'm even sorrier to hear you dry-humped your signature onto a contract to play a Grammy party - before the nominees were announced - because you were SO sure your pathetic attempt at making music would get even more undeserved attention."

Franck Tabouring
Title: DVD Critic

Known To Say: "My guess is the series is just too subtle and clever to amuse FOX executives."

Jarad Wilk
Title: DVD Critic

Known To Say: "Trust me when I say that getting a colonic in some corner deli with flickering lights, rusty equipment, and rats running around seems more appealing than sitting through this farce."

Margaret Williams
Title: Podcast Co-Host

Known To Say: "Welcome to the magic of movies my friends, and for AVP, it will take more than a little fairy dust."




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