Joshua Starnes

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Joshua Starnes
Born (1976-09-02) September 2, 1976 (age 47)
Nationality American
Occupation Film critic

Joshua Starnes (born September 2, 1976)[ citation needed ] is an American animation writer, comic book publisher film critic for ComingSoon.net [1] and president of the Houston Film Critics Society. [2]

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Career

Starnes was introduced to film criticism by his father [1] while a high school student in Houston, Texas and began writing regularly for ComingSoon.net, a subsidiary of CraveOnline, in 2004 [1] where he shares reviewing duties with Edward Douglas and Scott Chitwood. [3] In 2009 he became vice president [4] of the Houston Film Critics Society, and in 2012 he became president.

In 2015 he joined Red 5 Comics as co-publisher, expanding its line and partnering with King Features [5] and Armory Films [6] to develop new properties. [7] [8] He is the author of the graphic novels Spook with Lisandro Estherren and The Box with Raymond Estrada.

He is the co-writer for Kulipari: Dream Walker , starring Mark Hamill.

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