About Us!
Fused Film is an online magazine style film blog. All Our posts are sourced with news from all around the film world and they are “fused” with intriguing and intelligent commentary from film fanatic fanboys/gals. Some of the ideologies and perspectives you can find here at Fused Film are the following: An angry hard to please mentality from writer Adam Joiner, a well-crafted and intellectual brand of reviewing from contributor, Ken Smithart, the “fused fashionista” and feminine perspective from the Chic Geek and finally the winning everyman view from the Editor, Kevin Coll! We also feature a one-of-kind podcast giving us perspectives from fanboys Justin Vactor, Willie Gillis and Ben Songer.
Check out our daily features such as our weekly podcasts, videos of the day, trailer of the week, DVD Release Tuesdays, feature articles, hot-lists, Movie Reviews, Fused Film Friday Classics and more!
Fused Film Staff
Kevin Coll
Webmaster, Editor-In-Chief, “Elvis”
About: Kevin (Kent) has been a film fan his entire life and it is the one thing he truly loves to talk about. He considers himself an industry critic rather than a film critic. This is because he likes analyzing the news, the process of a film’s production, the film business aspects and the trends, rather than the finished product, although that doesn’t keep him from doing a movie review. His current day job is a Marketing Communications Coordinator for a real estate development and hospitality management company based in Memphis, TN. He is also a freelance social media consultant, pr guru. He is a contributing writer at Geeks of Doom under the pseudonym, “Graceland Geek” and a regular guest on the weekly podcast, Entertainment Overload and Geekland Podcast.
He is obsessed with Batman, pairs of “Chucks” Converse shoes, being the next big PR and Advertising Executive of a major company and he loves XBOX 360, soccer and the guitar.
Favorite Movies: Batman Begins, Memento, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Empire Strikes Back, Ronin, Indy and the Last Crusade, The Usual Suspects, Dazed and Confused and MallRats. He also enjoys flops like Double Dragons, TimeCop and Judge Dredd. He is a sci-fi freak and thinks he is the biggest Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis fan in Memphis, TN.
Favorite Authors: Micheal Crichton, Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, Dan Brown, John Darnton, C.S. Lewis and Robert Ludlum.
Favorite Comics/Graphic Novels: Batman: Year One, Batman: The Man Who Laughs, Batman: The Dark Victory, The Death of Superman Series and Batman: No Man’s Land.
Favorite Music: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, 3 Doors Down, Led Zeppelin, the Doors, the Who, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, 3rd Eye Blind, 311 and Blind Melon.
Contact Kent:
- Email: kcoll@fusedfilm.com
- AIM: Supermanfan285
- Windows Live/G-Chat: kncoll@gmail.com
- XBOX LIVE: Kent1985
- Twitter: fusedfilm
Adam Joiner
Creative Director, Forum Raider
About: Adam (MajorXero) Joiner is a 36 year old fanboy with deep roots in some of the classic days of film before heavy CGI usage and original plot elements that are over used today. MajorXero is a staunch critic that holds every story and movie to the highest standards. He tends to find plot flaws and holes in every movie but that doesn’t mean he hates the movie or will not see it. It just means he has something to get “fused” about for a good week. He tends to enjoy all the geeky stuff and is a Marvel and DC comic expert. He is married and has a dog named Chloe. He also enjoys sci-fi from his generation and believes that the BattleStar Gallactica series remake was a terrible idea.
Favorite Movies: The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension, Doc Savage: Man of Bronze, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Alien, Excalibur, The Black Hole and Forbidden Planet.
Favorite Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and others that he will add later
Favorite Comics/Graphic Novels: Anything Superman!
Favorite Music: Listens to talk radio
Contact MajorXero:
- Email: ajoiner@fusedfilm.com
- www.twitter.com/wajoiner
Catharine Coll
Fashion Writer/Chic-Geek/Creative Consultant
About: Catharine Coll, aka - the Chic Geek, is a 19 year old graphic design major at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. She loves movies just for the entertainment value not like Adam and Kevin who live, eat and breathe the stuff. Now when she watches movies and even the geeky ones she checks out the styles and hotness this is why she is the Chic Geek. She can talk Lord of the Rings while straightening her hair to look like Jessica Alba. She loves to shop and has contemplated a career out of it…anyone need a professional shopper because she is your woman.
Favorite Movies: Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Indy Trilogy, Moulin Rouge, Transformers, Phantom of the Opera, Star Wars, X-Men (She loves Cyclops), August Rush, Goonies and Bill & Ted.
Favorite Authors: Alice Hoffman, Shakespeare, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Miller and Oscar Wilde
Favorite Music: Coldplay, Cartel, Movie Soundtracks, Buckcherry, Flyleaf, Oasis, Rufus Wainwright, Augustana, Michael Buble, Sinatra and Broadway Musicals.
Contact: The Chic Geek
- Email: chicgeek@fusedfilm.com
- AIM: ThePinkPirate04
Justin Vactor
Contributing Writer/Podcast Co-Host/Podcast Editor
About: Justincredible, aka - Justin Vactor is from all around living in places like Japan. He currently lives in Memphis, TN where he is a an avid Gamer, Podcaster, New Media Enthusiast, Comic Book lover, Film whore and Television addict. He is Co-Host of the Fused Film Podcasts on both the Overload and Factor segments. Justin loves comics and loves movies which makes him a great contributing addition to Fused Film.
Favorite Movies: Spider-Man, Superman:The Movie, Psycho, Empire Strikes Back, Back To The Future
Favorite Authors: Brian K. Vaughan/Brian Michael Bendis/Mark Millar/Jeph Loeb/Joss Whedon
Favorite Comics/Graphic Novels/or Books: Ultimate Spider-Man/Y: The Last Man/Pride of Baghdad/Ex Machina/Runaways.
Favorite Music: Alicia Keys/John Mayer/Justin Timberlake
Contact:
Fused Film Podcasters
Ben Songer
Podcast Co-Host (Entertainment Overload Podcast)
About: I am a 24 year old Canadian who moved to Memphis 7 years ago. I enjoy watching movies and TV shows, listening to music, podcasting, partying, reading comics, and I love to play XBOX 360 with my friends online I am a co-host of Fused Film’s Entertainment Overload and the Geekland Podcast.
Favorite Movies: Anything Marvel or DC, the Highlander movies, Lord of the rings, Star Wars Series, UnderWorld, UnderWorld: Evolution, The Transporter, Harry Potter Series, anything that is from Quentin Tarrantino or Robert Rodriguez, James Bond Collection, Transformers, and many others. I have a weak spot for all movies based off of comics and videogames.
Willie Gillis
Podcast Co-Host (Entertainment Overload Podcast)
About: A 28 year old self proclaimed TV/Movie/Music Geek who also loves comics, podcasting and new media.
Favorite Movies: Nightmare Before Christmas, HEAT, Memento, Pulp Fiction, Garden State, Juno, Clerks and many many more.
Favorite Authors: Chuck Palahniuk, Craig Clevenger, and Will Christopher Baer
Favorite Comics/Graphic Novels: The Walking Dead, Invincible, Criminal, and Runaways
Favorite Music: Bloc Party, Foo Fighters, Deftones,(+44), Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, and Coldplay
Contact:
Contributing Writers
Corey Latta
Contributing Writer/Film Fanatic
About: Corey is a college professor, teaching literature and theological studies at two colleges in the Memphis area. He is a HUGE movie buff, and a big believer that movies are not only entertainment, but are also our culture’s parables that can potentially and powerfully transform on an individual and social level. Oh, and superhero and fantasy movies rule = )
Favorite Movies: Lonesome Dove, Braveheart, Rocky, Superman, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Favorite Authors: Ernest Hemingway, J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert Frost, Rainer Maria Rilke, C. S. Lewis
Favorite Comics/Graphic Novels/or Books: Lust for Life, On Love and Other Difficulties, The Lord of the Rings, Letters to a Young Poet, The Bible
Favorite Music: AC/DC,Theory of a Deadman, Puddle of Mudd, Derek Webb, Caedmon’s Call
Contact:
- latta.corey@gmail.com
Ken Smithart
About: - Ken Smithart (Greysmith) has been a movie critic for years…only recently has he actually found an audience. Previously his only audience was people he cornered after the movie (fortunately these were usually the people he came with.) He has a tendency to be more forgiving of movies if they “hit where they aim” as opposed to grading everything as if it were up for an award at Sundance. If it’s a cheesy, turn-off-your-brain-when-you-turn-off-your-cell-phone, popcorn movie, I don’t hold it to an unrealistic standard. One pet peeve is when the F/X folks don’t do their research and break the laws of physics (I’ll elaborate on that with an article later.) Ken is gearing up to begin his doctoral work in History beginning this fall in Texas.
Favorite Movies: - Raiders of the Lost Ark, LOTR - Fellowship of the Ring, Star Wars, The Fugitive, Batman Begins.
Favorite Authors: - C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, David McCullough, John Grisham, Michael Crichton.
Favorite TV Shows: - Lost, Chuck, Stargate Atlantis, The Unit, Mythbusters.
Contact:
- ksmithart@gmail.com
Special Thanks to the Following
Also thanks to our site consultants:
Dave3(Geeks of Doom), Jason Bolton (Man of Steel) , Craig Sharp (Original Sharp Says…),
Tom Conway (Web-Consulting) & Hayes Hora (Wordpress Consultant)
Also we would like to thank our local Memphis friends:
Memphis Comics and Collectibles & Bonnie Thompson (Studio Theater Rep)
And as Always Family and Friends for bearing with Us!
