MEDIA AFFILIATION
DustinPutman.com
TheMovieBoy.com
Worst Previews
Dustin at Rotten Tomatoes
LOCATION
Sterling, VA (suburb of Washington, DC)
ABOUT DUSTIN
An online film critic since 1997 and one of the early members of the OFCS, Dustin Putman writes weekly full-length reviews and occasional essays at his website DustinPutman.com (formerly known as TheMovieBoy.com). He is also the key review contributor at WorstPreviews.com. His work can also be found on RottenTomatoes.com, The Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com), Google Movies, and the Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE.com). In addition, Dustin's work has been used and quoted in print, on trailers, in national advertising campaigns, and on DVD covers. His website DustinPutman.com has also been named a "Hot Site of the Week" by USA Today.
FAVORITES
A lover of all genres with a soft spot for horror, some of Dustin Putman's favorite films include (in order of release): The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming); Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock); Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock); Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais); Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971, Mel Stuart); Don't Look Now (1973, Nicolas Roeg); Lisa and the Devil (1973, Mario Bava); The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper); Nashville (1975, Robert Altman); 3 Women (1977, Robert Altman); Halloween (1978, John Carpenter); The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick); Sixteen Candles (1984, John Hughes); Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch); Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986, John Hughes); Lucas (1986, David Seltzer); Smooth Talk (1986, Joyce Chopra); Stand by Me (1986, Rob Reiner); Pet Sematary (1989, Mary Lambert); Dogfight (1991, Nancy Savoca); Paradise (1991, Mary Agnes Donoghue); Intersection (Mark Rydell); Wild Reeds (1994, Andre Techine); Fargo (1996, Joel and Ethan Coen); Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997, David Mirkin); American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes); Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson); A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg); Donnie Darko (2001, Richard Kelly); Moulin Rouge (2001, Baz Luhrmann); Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch); Vanilla Sky (2001, Cameron Crowe); Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola); The Polar Express (2004, Robert Zemeckis); Little Manhattan (2005, Mark Levin); Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008, David Fincher); Martyrs (2009, Pascal Laugier)
