James Berardinelli Explained

James Berardinelli
Birth Date:25 September 1967
Birth Place:New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation:Writer
Period:1992–present
Genre:Fantasy
Subject:Film
Children:2
Alma Mater:University of Pennsylvania (BS, MS)
Education:Cherry Hill High School East

James Berardinelli (born September 25, 1967)[1] is an American film critic and former engineer. His reviews are mainly published on his blog ReelViews. Approved as a critic by the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, he has published two collections of reviews of movies on DVD and video. He is also a fantasy novelist, publishing a trilogy from 2015 through 2016 known as The Last Whisper of the Gods.

Personal life

Berardinelli was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey and spent his early childhood in Morristown, New Jersey.[2] When he was nine, his family moved to the township of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where he attended Cherry Hill High School East. Later he moved to Piscataway.

He attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1985 to 1990, obtaining both a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering. After graduating he worked for Bellcore Company, now Telcordia Technologies. He worked during the next 15 years "in a variety of fields, including fiber optics, video testing, and software systems."

Berardinelli has categorized himself as an agnostic and a libertarian. He resides in Mount Laurel, New Jersey with his wife, Sheryl, whom he met through his website.[3] [4] [5] [6] They have two children: a son born in May 2010, and a daughter born in November 2019.[7] [8]

Career

Starting in January 1992, Berardinelli began writing movie reviews, his first being a review of the 1991 drama Grand Canyon.[9] His first review published to the Internet was of the 1992 drama Scent of a Woman, which was posted both to Usenet and his Colossus Inc-hosted[10] website, ReelViews.[11]

Roger Ebert referred to Berardinelli as "the best of the Web-based critics" in 2001,[12] and wrote a foreword for the 2003 book, Reelviews, a collection of Berardinelli's reviews.[13] Berardinelli is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic.[14] [15]

In January 2004,[16] he began his blog ReelThoughts, by which time his reviews could attract as many as 100,000 readers, up from around 1,400 weekly readers in 1997. In August 2006,[17] the site moved to ReelViews.net, a domain Berardinelli had originally registered by late 2000.[18]

In September 2013, Berardinelli announced that he had been working on a trilogy of fantasy novels entitled The Last Whisper of the Gods.[19] The first book was published in November 2015, the second was released in January 2016, and the third in March 2016.[20]

Berardinelli appears as a guest on the pop-culture radio program Fictional Frontiers every two weeks.[21]

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1984 . August 3, 2009 . June 15, 2015 . Reelviews.net . Berardinelli . James . ...turning 17. Beginning September 25 [1984], I could drive and see R-rated movies without an accompanying adult. . June 15, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150615005151/http://www.reelviews.net/reelthoughts/1984 . live .
  2. Web site: Frequently Asked Questions. Reelviews.net. June 12, 2015. June 15, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150615004805/http://preview.reelviews.net/faq.html. live.
  3. Schneider, Dan. "The Dan Schneider Interview 16: James Berardinelli", Cosmoetica.com, December 12, 2008. Accessed July 14, 2016. "I was born in New Brunswick, lived in Old Bridge for a year, then spent my childhood in Morristown and my teenage years in Cherry Hill. I went to college at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, then returned to New Jersey to live in Bridgewater, Hillsborough, and Mount Laurel, where I currently reside."
  4. Boatman, Gail T. "When the lights go down, his work begins", Burlington County Times, February 18, 2015. Accessed July 14, 2016. "MOUNT LAUREL — Like movie fans everywhere, James Berardinelli will be in front of his television set, Sunday, watching the Oscars."
  5. Web site: 11 Years. January 26, 2007. July 19, 2015. Reelviews Movie Reviews. Berardinelli. James.
  6. Web site: James Berardinelli on Twitter. Twitter. August 21, 2016.
  7. Web site: Welcome, Michael. June 11, 2010. June 21, 2015. Reelviews Movie Reviews. Berardinelli. James.
  8. Web site: Rewinding 2019: The Year in Review. December 31, 2019. January 3, 2020. Reelviews. Berardinelli. James. I missed a good part of November due to the birth of my daughter.
  9. Web site: ReelViews FAQ . movie-reviews.colossus.net . 11 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/19971221145419/http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/faq.html#7 . 21 December 1997 . dead.
  10. Web site: Colossus -- World Wide Web Provider . www.colossus.net . 11 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/19961101034906/http://www.colossus.net/ . 1 November 1996 . dead.
  11. Web site: ReelViews FAQ . movie-reviews.colossus.net . 11 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/19971221145419/http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/faq.html#15 . 21 December 1997 . dead.
  12. Web site: Rogerebert.com. Saving Silverman. Ebert, Roger. Roger Ebert. Chicago Sun-Times. February 9, 2001.
  13. Web site: The Ebert Foreword . https://archive.today/20130624171312/http://www.reelviews.net/reelthoughts.php?identifier=637 . June 24, 2013 . Reelviews . April 13, 2010 . dead .
  14. Web site: JAMES BERARDINELLI. Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. April 20, 2016.
  15. Web site: James Berardinelli. Critics' Choice Awards. February 19, 2018. May 4, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200504201203/http://www.criticschoice.com/members/jberardinelli/. dead.
  16. Web site: Archived copy . movie-reviews.colossus.net . 11 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20050526113232/http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/reelthoughts/jan_2004.html . 26 May 2005 . dead.
  17. Web site: ReelViews: Movie Reviews and Criticism by James Berardinelli . www.movie-reviews.colossus.net:80 . 11 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060820132824/http://www.movie-reviews.colossus.net:80/ . 20 August 2006 . dead.
  18. Web site: ReelViews: James Berardinelli's Movie Reviews . www.movie-reviews.colossus.net:80 . 11 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20001204020500/http://www.movie-reviews.colossus.net:80/main0.html . 4 December 2000 . dead.
  19. Web site: The Last Whisper of the Gods . ReelViews Movie Reviews. June 12, 2015. James. Berardinelli.
  20. Web site: James Berardinelli on Twitter. June 12, 2015. Twitter. June 5, 2015.
  21. Web site: Fictional Frontiers. June 12, 2015. November 3, 2019.

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