Joseph Patrick Michael Leydon (born August 22, 1952) is an award-winning film critic and historian. Currently a critic and correspondent for Variety, the "show business bible," and a contributing writer for MovieMaker magazine, he is the author of Joe Leydon's Guide to Essential Movies You Must See (Michael Wiese Productions), host of http://movingpictureblog.blogspot.com/ and the website http://www.MovingPictureShow.com/, and a contributing crit...
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Joseph Patrick Michael Leydon (born August 22, 1952) is an award-winning film critic and historian. Currently a critic and correspondent for Variety, the "show business bible," and a contributing writer for MovieMaker magazine, he is the author of Joe Leydon's Guide to Essential Movies You Must See (Michael Wiese Productions), host of
http://movingpictureblog.blogspot.com/ and the website
http://www.MovingPictureShow.com/, and a contributing critic for Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide. He is also the communications director for Cowboys & Indians Magazine, where he has written cover-story profiles of such notables as Hugh Jackman, Jewel, Viggo Mortensen, Jeff Bridges, Trisha Yearwood, Tom Selleck, Nolan Ryan, George Strait, Sam Elliott and Kevin Costner. Since 2000, he has been an adjunct professor at Houston Community College and the University of Houston's Jack J. Valenti School of Communications.
Leydon was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in the city's Ninth Ward, where he...
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