{"id":869,"date":"2020-01-01T11:38:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T11:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the7.io\/fashion-blog\/?page_id=869"},"modified":"2020-09-02T10:25:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T10:25:16","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mscottphillips.com\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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This site has been years in the making.\u00a0 <\/span><\/b>I can\u2019t decide if that sounds pretentious or self-congratulatory.\u00a0 <\/span>I hope not.\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s the literal truth.\u00a0 <\/span>The oldest review on this site was written in April 2013, nearly 7 \u00bd years ago.\u00a0 <\/span>I was writing a long time before that.\u00a0 <\/span>My first review to appear in print was my take on Wes Craven\u2019s The Serpent and the Rainbow<\/i> in February 1988.\u00a0 <\/span>I was a college freshman at the time.\u00a0 <\/span>Under the category of \u201cIt\u2019s a Small World\u201d, my college editor, Jim Farmer, is a fellow member of the Atlanta Film Critics Circle (AFCC).\u00a0 <\/span>I doubt he remembers me from our days at the University of Georgia, but his work inspired me to take film journalism seriously.\u00a0<\/p>

This website is an archive of sorts:\u00a0 <\/span>a place where all my online work appears in one virtual location.\u00a0 <\/span>Unfortunately, the print side of my career is unrepresented in this online warehouse, but I hope to do something about that in the future.\u00a0 <\/span>I still consider myself an analog guy in a digital world.\u00a0 <\/span>I prefer vinyl to CDs.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019ll take 35mm film over 4K any day.\u00a0 <\/span>So, I plan to bring scans of newsprint to this site.<\/p>

People often ask me where my interest in film and film criticism originated.\u00a0 <\/span>My answer is always the same:\u00a0 <\/span>my mother shared her love of movies with me, and my father taught me the fundamentals of good writing.\u00a0 <\/span>My mom could name every film of the 1940\u2019s and 50\u2019s with a single glance, and my dad writes like a professional journalist even though he spent his entire career in the worlds of mathematics and computer science.\u00a0 <\/span>Since I may never write a book and have a chance to dedicate it to someone, I\u2019ll dedicate the launch of this site to my parents.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>

I love this artform.\u00a0 <\/span>Plain and simple.\u00a0 <\/span>I feel fortunate that a variety of outlets have given me an opportunity over the years to write and talk about it.\u00a0 <\/span>I don\u2019t get involved in Twitter wars.\u00a0 <\/span>I don\u2019t engage with internet trolls.\u00a0 <\/span>My opinion is my opinion.\u00a0 <\/span>Nothing more; nothing less.\u00a0 <\/span>Like every film critic out there, I\u2019ve had a number of people over the years disagree with my take on a film.\u00a0 <\/span>My replies are almost always the same.\u00a0 <\/span>Glad you enjoyed it.\u00a0 <\/span>It didn\u2019t really connect with me<\/i>.\u00a0 <\/span>Or:\u00a0 <\/span>Sorry you didn\u2019t care for it.\u00a0 <\/span>It worked for me<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>

Along with being a film obsessive, I\u2019m also a baseball fanatic.\u00a0 <\/span>As a fan of the Atlanta Braves, the New York Yankees have broken my heart in many Octobers.\u00a0 <\/span>But when the name Derek Jeter comes up, I tip my cap and point out that he\u2019s a class act, a great ambassador for the game. \u00a0 <\/span>When it comes to the film world, I strive to say something insightful in my work, but mostly, I just want to be a good ambassador for the medium.<\/p>

Thanks for checking out the site.\u00a0 <\/span>If you\u2019d like to contact me, send me an email at: scottphillipsfilmcritic@gmail.com.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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