Film Critic and Former Film Instructor at Cabrillo College

Morton Marcus is an award-winning writer, film historian and film critic. He taught English and Film at Cabrillo College for thirty years, and his sixteen-part television history of film, Movie Milestones, has been shown on many cable television stations and for years was the main visual source of film history at the AFTRS, the Australian national film school. Marcus has been a longtime co-host of KUSP radio’s “The Poetry Show” and was the co-host of the film review television program “Cinema Scene” which was a regular offering on AT "&"T Broadband and Comcast networks from 1999-2003, and now continues on the Community Television channel of Santa Cruz County. He also leads a film discussion group at Santa Cruz’s Nickelodeon theater on the first and third Saturday of every month. He is the president of the Pacific Rim Film Festival and has curated film series at various museums as well as taken part in several panels on literature and film at the John Steinbeck Center. more...

Film Critic for Metro Newspapers

Richard Von Busack went to school at UCSC, and has been the staff writer for Metro Newspapers since 1989. He's written for Metro, the weekly paper of the Silicon Valley, since its first issue in 1985. He's also written for the San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, and the East Bay Express.

His essay "Signifying Monkeys" was just published in The Science Fiction Reader (Limelight Editions). For several years, he's been cohost of the San Francisco Bay area cable tv show CinemaScene.

His Metro Santa Cruz article "The Prince of Plots" won First Place for Arts Reviewing by the Association of Alternative Newspapers.