Budd Wilkins is an internationally published film critic and film historian. He contributes to Slant Magazine, Little White Lies, Video Watchdog, Screem Magazine, Film International, Movie Mezzanine, Not Coming To A Theater Near You, and Acidemic Journal of Film and Media. Mr. Wilkins has written chapters for several anthologies awaiting publication: an essay on the films of Juan Lopez Moctezuma for Intellect, Ltd.'s Global Fear: International Horror Directors, and a piece on Walerian Borowczyk’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne for Boro, L'Île d'Amour: The Films of Walerian Borowczyk. Mr. Wilkins has interviewed documentary legend Frederick Wiseman, Academy Award winning actor and director Albert Brooks, cult film director Lucky McKee, and Bruce Goldstein, programming director of New York City’s famed repertory theater The Film Forum. Mr. Wilkins provided press coverage for the 2012 and 2014 Cannes Film Festival for Slant. He also provided press coverage for the 2012 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Mr. Wilkins’ review of The French Connection is required reading for a film class at The University of Southern California entitled “Cinema of the Streets.”