Peter G. Helfrich

Film critic for well-rounded.com and mybytes.com, Peter G. Helfrich is also an award-winning graphic designer for Repertoire magazine, an Atlanta-based medical distribution industry trade publication. He has spent the last decade working in publishing, variously as a writer, editor and art director. He is formally the editor-in-chief of Philadelphia's oldest visual arts publication Art Matters, where he wrote extensively on film, photography, sculpture and painting, as well as on a wide variety of arts-related issues. Additionally, he has written on entertainment for the Times Chronicle (Jenkintown, PA) and The Globe (Glenside, PA) newspapers. He is co-author of the graphic-novel Weirdo Magnet and spent six years fronting the Philadelphia-based alternative rock band Amazing Thrill Show as bassist and vocalist. He is currently a contributor to the dating and relationships Web site BreakUpGirl.com, and the e-zine PsychicPet.com. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Delaware (AS89), and currently resides in the Atlanta suburb of Tucker, GA with his wife.

Some of my all-time favorites are:

• A Room With A View
• Blade Runner
• Wuthering Heights (1939)
• The Abyss
• Dead Again
• The African Queen
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• The Philadelphia Story
• Rocky

Atlanta, GA