JOHN HUGHES A LIFE IN FILM

KIRK HONEYCUTT is the owner/editor of the Honeycutt's Hollywood film reviews web site (http://honeycuttshollywood.com/) and an adjunct film professor teaching criticism, script analysis and history at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. As the chief film critic at The Hollywood Reporter for many years, Honeycutt reviewed films from its home office in Los Angeles and at major international film festivals such as Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, Busan, Mill Valley and Toronto. He oversaw the expansion of The Reporter's international reviewing staff and coordinated the reviews for the various festival show dailies around the world. A member of the prestigious Los Angeles Film Critics Association for over 36 years, he previously reviewed films for the Daily News of Los Angeles. He appears regularly on television and radio shows. A graduate of the theater arts department of the University of California at Los Angeles, Honeycutt reported on the film industry for The Hollywood Reporter from 1992 to 1999 before being appointed chief film critic, a post he held until he left the publication in December 2011. In the past, he was a regular contributor to the New York Times, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and wrote for such publications as Cosmopolitan, the Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, Movieline, Premiere and American Film. In 1992 his screenplay, "Final Judgment," was made into a motion picture starring Brad Dourif, Isaac Hayes, Karen Black and Orson Bean.