That Shelf

Victor Stiff

Senior Critic

Victor Stiff is a Toronto-based entertainment journalist and member of the Toronto Film Critics Association. He is the News Editor and Senior Critic at ThatShelf.com and host of UFO Movie Club on YouTube. Victor has contributed to the Canadian Academy, POV Magazine, Global News, The Playlist, Screen Rant, We Got This Covered, In the Seats, and Sordid Cinema. Victor received the TFCA’s 2019 Emerging Critic award and served as a jury member at the 49th Festival du nouveau cinéma. He’s currently a programmer for the Rendezvous With Madness Festival.

Courtney Small

Senior Critic

Courtney is a Rotten Tomatoes approved film critic and co-host of the radio show Frameline. He has written for several publications including POV Magazine, CBC Arts, Exclaim!, Cinema Axis, Leonard Maltin, In the Seats, Black Girl Nerds, and Comix Asylum. He also discusses diversity in cinema as host of the Changing Reels podcast and is a member of the Toronto Film Critics Association, the Online Film Critics Society and the African American Film Critics Association.

Bil Antoniou

Criterion Maestro

Bil Antoniou is a Toronto-based actor and playwright who co-hosts the podcast BGM: Bad Gay Movies/Bitchy Gay Men and his own personal memory project podcast My Criterions. The rest of the time, he's usually watching movies and blogging about them at MyOldAddiction.com.

Mel Valentin

Featured Critic

Mel Valentin has been writing about his first and possibly his last love, film, for more than a decade. Born somewhere on the East Coast in the last century, Mel moved to the San Francisco Bay Area two decades ago. Mel spends his days looking forward to when we can all return to movie theaters and film festivals in person.

Shane Slater

Featured Critic

Shane Slater is a passionate cinephile whose love for film led him to creating his blog Film Actually in 2009. Since then, he has also written for AwardsCircuit.com, Awards Radar and The Spool, in addition to appearances on podcasts, radio and TV. Based in Kingston, Jamaica, he relishes the film festival experience, having covered DOC NYC, NewFest, NYFF, PAFF-LA and TIFF among others. He is a proud member of the African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA).

Deirdre Crimmins

Senior Critic

Deirdre Crimmins is Chicago-based freelance film critic and a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. She contributes regularly to Rue Morgue magazine, previously she wrote for both High Def Digest and Birth.Movies.Death. Though a lifelong horror film fan, she also loves a good musical or screwball comedy when the mood strikes.

Vanya Garraway

TV Assignment Editor
Vanya Garraway is a writer based in Toronto. She is a film programmer at Revue Cinema (series Paid In Sweat - A Celebration of sweat in cinema), and a film/pop-culture pundit nostalgic for yesterday. She is a poet and a panelist for hire. She is an arts and culture professional with twenty-plus years experience.

Sarah Gopaul

Featured Critic

Sarah Gopaul is Digital Journal's Editor-at-Large for film news, a member of the Online Film Critics Society and a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-approved critic. She's also a Funko Funatic. She is a film enthusiast who realized the power of cinema when she first saw 12 Angry Men as a pre-teen. Discovering a passion and talent for writing rather than filmmaking, she earned a Bachelor of Journalism from Ryerson University then a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies at York University. Sarah combines her education and love of writing by reviewing theatrical and home entertainment releases. She served as the Editor-in-Chief of Popjournalism, a national, online entertainment magazine, for two years. Now she’s a freelance writer providing insights and opinions on what she thinks you should spend your money. Sarah enjoys watching all movie genres, but has a particular fondness for horror, and has been a Funko collector since 2015, which began with — not surprisingly — horror Pops!

Akash Singh

Featured Critic

Akash J. Saran (He/They) is a featured critic at That Shelf. Akash is several things in training: an attorney, novelist, and an experienced sodomite. They enjoy period pieces starring Dev Patel, films about writers making it in New York City, and the Paddington Cinematic Universe.

Will Perkins

Founder

Will Perkins is a film and game journalist and marketing professional based in Toronto, Ontario. He co-founded ThatShelf.com with Jeff Brown and Lucas Rizoli in 2009. He has contributed to such outlets as Yahoo Movies, Design Bureau, Kill Screen, Maxim and Steel Bananas – work that has afforded him the opportunity to interview some of the world’s most acclaimed filmmakers, actors, and game designers. Will is the former co-owner of Art of the Title.

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