Geoff Pevere
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Geoff Pevere (born in October, 1957 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian and arts and media critic. He is a former film critic, book columnist and cultural journalist for the Toronto Star, where he worked from 1998 to 2011. His writing has appeared in several newspapers, magazines and arts journals, and he has worked as a broadcaster for both radio and television. He has also lectured widely on cultural and media topics, and taught courses at several Canadian universities and colleges. In 2012, he began contributing a weekly pop culture column to CBC Radio Syndication, which are heard in nearly twenty markets across Canada.
Pevere graduated from Carleton University's Film Studies program in 1982. In 1986 he was named the first Program Coordinator of the Toronto International Film Festival's Perspective Canada program, which introduced the work of Atom Egoyan, Bruce McDonald and Guy Maddin, among others, under his tenure. From 1986 to 1988 he contributed to CBC Radio's "State of the Arts" program, and in 1988 started a twelve year stint as the movie reviewer on CTV's "Canada AM".
From 1989 to 1993 [1], Pevere hosted Prime Time, a groundbreaking nightly pop culture magazine series on CBC Radio. In 1993, after the death of Jay Scott, he was the host of Film International on TVOntario. From 2003 to 2007 he was the co-host, with Richard Crouse, of Rogers Television's "Reel to Real".
He cowrote the book Mondo Canuck (1996), a critical evaluation of Canadian pop culture. He is also the author of "Team Spirit: A Field Guide to Roots Culture" (1998), "Toronto on Film" (2009) and "Donald Shebib's Goin' Down the Road" (2012).
In 2012, he launched a network of encyclopedic critical pop cultural websites called "The Blessed Diversion Network". "Mean Justice" (http://www.meanjustice.com) is devoted to western movies and TV shows; The Big Shadow (http://www.thebigshadow.com) is dedicated to the movie and TV culture of crime; Riff Free or Die (http://www.rifffreeordie.com) covers the visual history of rock music; and The Directory of Intemperate Enthusiasms (http://www.directoryofintemperateenthusiasms) covers cult movies and TV.
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