Hello! I’m John Campea. Chances are most of you know me from my previous work on The Movie Blog, AMC Movie News or most recently Collider Video. At my core I’m a film pundit and fan. I love to analyze, examine and talk about movies and TV like a sports fan talks about their favorite teams.
After having a lot of success and a fair amount of fun I decided in June of 2017 that it was time for me to no longer work under a corporate owned entity. I’ve been lucky in my career to work with wonderful corporations like AMC Theatres, Complex Networks and Verizon, but trying to work as a creative under corporate overlords became tiring. I found myself yearning for the days when I used to run my old website “The Movie Blog” as a creative independent with all the honesty, creative freedom and personal standards that doing so allowed me. And so, after the death of a dear friend which reminded me that life is short, I left Collider to re-launch my Youtube channel as an independent creator.
Random Facts:
- Married to my wife Ann since 2010
- Have 2 dogs named Lily and Shadow
- MMA junkie
- Star Wars is my favorite thing in life
- I like traditional table top role playing games
- I play a lot of poker and play in the World Series Of Poker each year
- I’m proudly Canadian
- My hometown of Hamilton, Ontario is the greatest city in the world
- My real name is Giovanni (I’m Italian)
- Before doing film punditry full time I worked in Law
- Before Law I worked in the Visual Effects industry
- I’ve produced 2 of my own movies, 1 documentary and 1 rom-com
- I wrote a novel called “The Pride”
- I have a dangerous addiction to Ice Cream
- Do a panel at San Diego Comic-Con each year called “Masters Of The Web”
