Brent Simon is a regular contributor to Screen International and Magill's Cinema Annual, and serves as film editor at H Magazine. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Simon served for five-plus years as editor-in-chief and lead film critic of the now-defunct Entertainment Today, at the time Los Angeles' oldest free weekly newspaper focused exclusively on entertainment.

Simon has also contributed film criticism, essays and feature pieces for print publications as diverse as Los Angeles Daily News, Paper, Los Angeles CityBeat, Zeitgeist, Now Playing Magazine and PopSmear. The DVD editor for ShockYa, Simon has contributed to many online sites, including New York Magazine's Vulture, IGN, Rotten Tomatoes, FilmStew and Reelz. SharedDarkness.com is his online blog. He has worked with AFI Fest, is a three-term president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and is currently working on a book project.

Related Links:

Brent Simon's Rotten Tomatoes Link

Shared Darkness