James Rocchi is a freelance film critic living and working in Los Angeles. He currently writes reviews for MSN.com, amctv.com, Redbox, Mother Jones Magazine and other outlets. He is a current member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Society, the Online Film Critics Society and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. He was the former head film critic for Netflix

Netflix

Netflix, Inc., is an American provider of on-demand internet streaming media in the United States, Canada, and Latin America and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California...

 Corporation (2000-2006), wrote for the AOL

AOL

AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...

 movie blog Cinematical.com (2006-2009), and was also a reviewer for KPIX TV in San Francisco (2006-2008), and wrote Rocchi's Retro Rental for the SFgate.com (2007-2009).

Mr. Rocchi is an alumnus of the University of Western Ontario

University of Western Ontario

The University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus covers of land, with the Thames River cutting through the eastern portion of the main campus. Western administers its programs through 12 different faculties and...

, where he was heavily involved with the campus radio station, CHRW-FM

CHRW-FM

CHRW-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 94.9 FM in London, Ontario. It is licensed as a community-based campus radio station by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission...

. While in university, he was a member of the University of Western Ontario Debating Society, the top debating union in North America in the 1990s. He was one of the world's top public speakers, winning the public speaking titles at the Canadian National Debating Championship

Canadian National Debating Championship

The Canadian National Debating Championship is the premier university debating championship in Canada, sanctioned by the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate. It has been held since 1978, always in the Canadian parliamentary debating style...

 and the World Universities Debating Championship

World Universities Debating Championship

The World Universities Debating Championship is the world's largest debating tournament, and one of the largest annual international student events in the world. It is a parliamentary debating event, held using the British Parliamentary Debate format. Each year, the event is hosted by a university...

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External links

• The Rocchi Report (personal web site)