Erik Childress

Erik Childress got his start as a film critic on the Jonathon Brandmeier show back in 1998 and for over 20 years wrote for eFilmCritic, was a weekly guest on Chicago’s WGN Radio with Nick Digilio (continuing now as The Nick D Podcast) and co-hosted the Bad Mutha Film Show with Sergio Mims on WHPK Radio. Currently he is the host of the Movie Madness podcast, co-host of The Friendship Dilemma podcast and produces the Critic’s Classics series at Elk Grove Cinema. On television he has been featured since 2011 on the Movies & Money segment on Business First AM and writes the weekly box office column for Rotten Tomatoes. He is on the board of the Chicago Film Critics Association and is the founder, a producer and programmer of the annual Chicago Critics Film Festival that began in 2013.

Back to the Future, JFK, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, E.T., Jaws, Aliens, Broadcast News, The Right Stuff, Goodfellas, Die Hard, The Prestige, Flash Gordon

Elk Grove Village, IL (Chicago)

https://erikthemovieman.substack.com/