{"id":23821,"date":"2024-02-14T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deepfocusreview.com\/?p=23821"},"modified":"2025-03-13T11:08:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:08:41","slug":"friends-and-fellow-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deepfocusreview.com\/friends-and-fellow-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends and Fellow Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve cultivated connections within various critics groups, forging friendships with talented writers whose work I admire and read regularly. Most weeks, I interact with members of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mnfilmcriticalliance.wordpress.com\/mnfca-members\/\">Minnesota Film Critics Alliance<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, several other groups, with members in Minnesota, the United States, and the entire globe, are my colleagues and friends. These include members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmstudies.org\/\"><strong>Society For Cinema and Media Studies<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oftaawards.com\/\"><strong>Online Film &amp; Television Association<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ifscritics.wordpress.com\/\"><strong>International Film Society Critics<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiecriticsofamerica.org\/members\/brian-eggert\/\">Independent Film Critics of America<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncis.org\/national-coalition-independent-scholars-ncis\">National Coalition of Independent Scholars<\/a><\/strong>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeassmovieblogs.com\/2020\/01\/lamb-1977-deep-focus-review.html\"><strong>Large Association of Movie Blogs<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in great film criticism, discussions, and videos, I highly recommend you check out their work on the links below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemadispatch.com\/\"><strong>The Cinema Dipatch<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Hunter Friesen<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/joethemnmovieman.com\/\"><strong>The MN Movie Man<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Joe Botten<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/flixchatter.net\/\">FlixChatter<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Ruth Maramis<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@filmtrace\/videos\"><strong>Film Trace<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Daniel Wipert and Chris Polley<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/paulstriptothemovies.com\/\"><strong>Paul&#8217;s Trip to the Movies<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Paul McGuire Grimes<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/movieswithmark.com\/\"><strong>Movies with Mark<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Mark McPherson<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/stpaulfilmcast.podbean.com\/\"><strong>St. Paul Filmcast<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCIMugsOa1GscyD7oBQmcsCQ\"><strong>Kyle &amp; Nick on Film<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goatfilmreviews.com\/\"><strong>GOAT Film Reviews<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Nicholas Palodichuk and Kyle Goethe<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2022 <b><a href=\"https:\/\/kino-ventura.blogspot.com\/\">Kino Ventura<\/a> <\/b>&#8211; Matt Clark<\/p>\n<h6>(Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@dmjdenise?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Denise Jans<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/red-padded-theater-chairs-OaVJQZ-nFD0?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a>)<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve cultivated connections within various critics groups, forging friendships with talented writers whose work I admire and read regularly. 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If you&#8217;re interested in great film criticism, discussions, and videos, I highly recommend you check out their work on the links below: \u2022 The Cinema Dipatch &#8211; Hunter Friesen \u2022 The MN Movie Man &#8211; Joe Botten \u2022 FlixChatter &#8211; Ruth Maramis \u2022 Film Trace &#8211; Daniel Wipert and Chris Polley \u2022 Paul&#8217;s Trip to the Movies &#8211; Paul McGuire Grimes \u2022 Movies with Mark &#8211; Mark McPherson \u2022 St. Paul Filmcast, Kyle &amp; Nick on Film, GOAT Film Reviews &#8211; Nicholas Palodichuk and Kyle Goethe \u2022 Kino Ventura &#8211; Matt Clark (Photo by Denise Jans\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Friends and Fellow Critics | Deep Focus Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here&#039;s a list of fellow critics, podcasters, and associations, all friends of Deep Focus Review. 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