Steven Rea
Steven Rea (also known as Steven X. Rea) is an American journalist, film critic, web producer, and writer. He was a film critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1992 through late 2016. Early life Rea was born in London, and raised in New York City. He is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York. Rea went to the West Coast for college, earning an undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He attended the Writers Workshop graduate program at the University of Iowa. Career Rea has written for multiple publications since 1975, as well as working for major record labels such as Island Records. In 1982, he joined The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he covered pop culture topics including movies, pop music and books. He became one of its film critics in 1992 and left that post in late 2016. Other periodicals for which he has written include: Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, Family Fun, Crawdaddy!, Music World, Phonograph Record Magazine, High Fidelity, Folk Scene, Los Angeles, New West, Trouser Press, Oui, Chic, Record World, and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. His film reviews and movie columns have been syndicated. Rea was an adjunct professor