Thom Ernst

[4] He began his career as a writer of stage plays, including Masculine Slaps,[5] Kings and Little Ones,[6] Henry Winkler Eats Free,[7] and To Quiet Blue.

[4] He joined Saturday Night at the Movies in 1998 as a researcher and interviewer, eventually becoming host of the show in the latter half of the 2000s.

He has written as a freelancer for publications including the Toronto Star, Toro, Northern Stars, Original Cin and the National Post, and became a member of the Toronto Film Critics Association in 2011.

[2] More recently he has hosted the television series Making Movies for TV1, the podcast This Movie Is About You, and the radio program Reel Jazz Radio, devoted to jazz and blues film music, for CJRT-FM.

[8] In 2023 he published The Wild Boy of Waubamik, a memoir of his childhood experiences as a victim of physical and sexual abuse by his adoptive father.