His longest affiliation has been with the New York metropolitan area newspaper Newsday, where he has worked as a feature writer and film critic.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Italian immigrants, Frank Lovece moved to the U.S as a toddler and was raised in Keyser and Morgantown, West Virginia.

[2] He attended St. Francis High School and West Virginia University in Morgantown, where he was the arts/entertainment editor of the college newspaper, the Daily Athenaeum.

[18] Lovece has created websites for magazines and television shows[8][better source needed] and written articles for, among others, Habitat,[19] Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Yahoo!/MSN.

Lovece has been a movie critic for Film Journal International,[21] the TV Guide website,[22] and the northern New Jersey newspaper The Record.