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Don Shanahan
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Film Critic, Content Supervisor, and Host, Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast, 25YL
Chicago
Beats
Biography
DON SHANAHAN is a Chicago-based Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic writing here on Film Obsessive as the Editor-in-Chief and Content Supervisor for the film department. He also writes for his own website, Every Movie Has a Lesson. Don is one of the hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast on the Ruminations Radio Network and sponsored by Film Obsessive. As a school teacher by day, Don writes his movie reviews with life lessons in mind, from the serious to the farcical. He is a proud director and one of the founders of the Chicago Indie Critics and a voting member of the nationally-recognized Critics Choice Association, Online Film Critics Society, North American Film Critics Association, International Film Society Critics Association, Internet Film Critics Society, Independent Film Critics of America, Online Film and TV Association, and the Celebrity Movie Awards.
Physical Media , Tv , Classic Film , Film
Art & culture
Content
By Don Shanahan Verified| Film Obsessive Verified Libraries are crossroads of eras and cultures with a wide range of both available knowledge and types of folks tapping into those resources. With their orderly arrangements and data-driven systems, libraries are places of meticulousness and, therefore, it takes meticulous people to work at and maintain them. Librarians then become the stewards and arbiters of these places. Our central protagonist and title character of Darkest Miriam from Game Theory Films is a librarian.
By Don Shanahan Verified| Film Obsessive Verified The hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast, sponsored and supported by the Ruminations Radio Network, are proud to bow at the altar of the late filmmaker William Friedkin. Though the movie industry lost Friedkin in 2023, he showered Hollywood with several hits and masterpieces across several decades, including The Exorcist and The French Connection from the 1970s to Cruising in the 1980s. Our guys haven’t seen all of the best William had to offer, but they’ll aim to try.
By Don Shanahan Verified| Film Obsessive Verified Watching the well-steeped yet tenuous relationship between the main characters in the new road movie Sacramento played by director Michael Angarano and co-headliner Michael Cera calls to mind this notion about friendship fertilized in a poem by Brian A. “Drew” Chalker:“People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Company Info
25YL
TV/Film analysis, cast and crew interviews and more!
Founded: 2017