Hello readers of SonyRumors,

My name is Joel and I come to you from the far away, exotic land of Seattle, Washington. I studied mathematics at Michigan State University en route to becoming a high school math teacher. The cool climate and grey skies of Seattle captured my attention and alleviated my general distaste of squinting, so I moved here. My career switched to software development a few years later and might shift again, who knows.

What hasn’t changed is my life long love of video games, movies, and performance. My childhood memories of playing on my friend’s Atari 2600 began an addiction that led me to owning a PS3 and the subsequent connection to SonyRumors. Throughout the years I’ve kept myself active performing improvisational theater and writing essays about the strange aspects of my life and how I interpret things, some of which are published online. There’s a great art culture in Seattle and I end up seeing a good number of films and plays and having long discussions about each. So I jumped at the chance to write my grey skied, hopefully humorous spin on movie reviews for SonyRumors. Thankfully they saw fit to take me on judging only by my NSFW essays about my life. I sincerely hope you enjoy my take on film.