Dannis Peary (born August 8, 1949)[1] is an American film critic[2] and sports writer.
[4] He is the brother of film critic, columnist, actor, and documentary filmmaker Gerald Peary.
[7] Over the years, his film criticism has been published in FilmInk, Movieline, Satellite Direct, OnDirect TV, TV Guide, Canadian TV Guide, Cosmopolitan, The New York Times, the New York Daily News, The Boston Globe, Sports Collectors Digest, the SoHo News, The Philadelphia Bulletin, Films in Focus, Films and Filming, Slant, L.A. Panorama, Memories and Dreams, The East Hampton Independent, and Country Weekly,[9] as well as The Velvet Light Trap and Newsday,[10] and the Sag Harbor Express.
[8] Each book contained an essay for each film (100 in the first volume,[4] 50 in the second,[13] and 50 in the third),[14] including production details and information gleaned from Peary's interviews with various producers, directors and actors.
Peary is a fan of the subversive and the humanistic and the books are essential reading for anyone interested in what lies just outside the bounds of the canon.
[18]Peary has co-authored books with Major League baseball player-sportscasters Ralph Kiner and Tim McCarver; writer Tom Clavin; Olympic gold medalist and cancer survivor Shannon Miller on her memoir; and Muhammad Ali's daughter Hana Ali on a book about the origins of her father's greatest quotes.
The director of the film, Mark Hartley, has said that, "I'd worn my copies of Cult Movies 1, 2 and 3 into the ground from constant re-reading so meeting author Danny Peary was a pleasure.