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| name = Joe Leydon<br />
| image = Film Critic and Historian Joe Leydon.jpg<br />
| birth_name = Joseph Patrick Michael Leydon<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|8|22}}<br />
| birth_place = [[New Orleans|New Orleans, Louisiana]], [[United States]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[Loyola University New Orleans|Loyola University]]<br />
| occupation = [[Film critic]], [[historian]]<br />
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'''Joseph Patrick Michael Leydon''' (born August 22, 1952) is an American [[film criticism|film critic]] and historian. A critic and correspondent for ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' since 1990, he is the author of ''Joe Leydon's Guide to Essential Movies You Must See''{{ISBN needed}} (Michael Wiese Productions), and was a contributing critic for ''[[Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide]]''{{ISBN needed}}. As of July 2021 he has 1225 reviews collected on the website [[Rotten Tomatoes]]. He is also a founding member of [[Houston Film Critics Society]], and a voting member of [[Critics' Choice Movie Awards|Critics Choice]]. From 2001 until 2021, Leydon taught film and communication studies courses at [[Houston Community College]] and the [[Jack J. Valenti]] School of Communication at [[University of Houston]].<br />
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==Life and career==<br />
Leydon was born in [[New Orleans|New Orleans, Louisiana]] and raised in the city's [[Ninth Ward of New Orleans|Ninth Ward]]. He graduated from [[Loyola University New Orleans|Loyola University]] with a degree in [[journalism]] (with a minor in film).<ref>[https://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=bio&peopleID=1253 "Joe Leydon"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100915145748/http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=bio&peopleID=1253 |date=2010-09-15 }}, [[Variety (magazine)|Variety.com]]</ref> At Loyola, he studied under the late Ralph T. Bell. In 2007, he earned a Master of Arts degree at the [[Jack J. Valenti]] School of Communication at [[University of Houston]].<br />
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[[File:Joe Leydon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Leydon at the [[Nashville Film Festival]] in 2008]]<br />
Leydon was a film critic for ''The [[Houston Post]]'' from 1982 until the paper’s demise in 1995. He has also reviewed films for The Houston Press, ''[[The San Francisco Examiner]]'', [[MSNBC.com]], and [[NBC]] affiliate [[KPRC-TV]] in Houston. His work as a journalist, interviewer, and feature writer has appeared in the ''[[Daily News (New York)|New York Daily News]]'', ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[Newsday]]'', ''[[The Tennessean]]'', ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', ''[[Toronto Star]]'', and the ''[[Austin American-Statesman]]''; ''[[Film Comment]]'', ''[[MovieMaker]]'', ''[[Houstonia (magazine)|Houstonia]]'', and ''[[New Orleans]]'' magazines. From 2001 to 2020, he taught film studies courses at [[Houston Community College System|Houston Community College]]. Leydon is a senior writer for ''[[Cowboys & Indians Magazine]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Joe Leydon, Author at Cowboys and Indians Magazine |url=https://www.cowboysindians.com/author/jleydon/ |website=Cowboys and Indians Magazine }}</ref><br />
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In a December 17, 2011 post on his blog, Leydon revealed that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009, and that he had survived treatment and was in remission.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 17, 2011 |author=Joe Leydon |url=http://www.movingpictureblog.com/2011/12/i-fought-cancer-cancer-lost.html |title=I fought cancer. Cancer lost |website=MovingPictureBlog.com }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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* [http://www.MovingPictureShow.com/ Moving Picture Show] (Leydon official site)<br />
* [http://movingpictureblog.blogspot.com/ Moving Picture Blog] (Leydon's blog)<br />
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[[Category:Historians from Louisiana]]</div>Ajay Kumar