Marshall Fine Author, Journalist, and movie critic. Marshall Fine is a film critic and author who has worked at newspapers in Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi, South Dakota, California and New York. Fine spent 25 years covering film for Gannett Newspapers. More recently, he has served as film/TV critic for Star magazine and Huffington Post. Most recently, he created Hollywood & Fine: Movies for Smart People, a website (developed by Stan Krome of First Crescent) devoted to film reviews and interviews.

Fine grew up in Richfield, MN, a Minneapolis suburb, until he was 13. His family subsequently moved to St. Louis Park, MN, another Minneapolis suburb, which also was home to humorist Al Franken

Al Franken

Alan Stuart "Al" Franken is the junior United States Senator from Minnesota. He is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which affiliates with the national Democratic Party....

, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman

Thomas Friedman

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 and filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen.

Fine began his career as a critic at 18, writing reviews of rock concerts and albums for the Minneapolis Star while a freshman at the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

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. He subsequently created entertainment sections at several of the newspapers where he worked.

He is the author of three biographies: Bloody Sam: The Life and Films of Sam Peckinpah; Harvey Keitel: The Art of Darkness; and Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented the American Independent Film. He conducted the Playboy Interview with Howard Stern and Tim Robbins for Playboy Magazine.

Fine directed a documentary short, "Flo Fox's Dicthology," that was selected for the Woodstock and Amsterdam film festivals in 2002. His documentary feature, "Do You Sleep in the Nude?," about film critic Rex Reed

Rex Reed

Rex Taylor Reed is an American film critic and former co-host of the syndicated television show At the Movies. He currently writes the column "On the Town with Rex Reed" for The New York Observer.-Life and career:...

, was selected for the Hamptons Film Festival (2007) and the South by Southwest Film Festival (2008).

Fine is a three-time former chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle: 1992, 2002 and 2006 and is a member of New York Film Critics Online. He is a contributing editor for Cigar Aficionado

Cigar Aficionado

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 magazine and has written cover stories on, among others, Jay-Z

Jay-Z

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, Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone

Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone , commonly known as Sylvester Stallone, and nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, film director and occasional painter. Stallone is known for his machismo and Hollywood action roles. Two of the notable characters he has portrayed...

, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones, CBE, is a British actress. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of United Kingdom and United States television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as the 1998 action film The Mask of...

 and the cast of "Entourage"

Entourage (TV series)

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.

His writing has appeared in USA Today

USA Today

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, the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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, the New York Daily News

New York Daily News

The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011....

, New York Observer

New York Observer

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 such as and, Playboy

Playboy

Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

, Penthouse Magazine, Premiere, Cosmopolitan Magazine and Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...

.

He helped create and hosted the Journal-News Film Club at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY, from 2001 to 2004. Fine subsequently created, produces and hosts the Emelin Film Club at the Emelin Theater in Mamaroneck, NY, in 2005. He launched the Thalia Film Club at Symphony Space on Manhattan's Upper West Side in 2010.

External links

• http://www.hollywoodandfine.com/