Catalina Combs

Born and raised in Southern California, Catalina is a freelance journalist and film critic. You can also find her work on blackfilm.com and documentary.org. She has moderated and served on film panels, interviewed casts and crews of various films, and has been a juror for the New Orleans Film Festival. Catalina is a member of numerous critics' associations, including the Critics Choice Association, African American Film Critics Association, the Online Association of Female Film Critics, and the Hollywood Creative Alliance, as well as a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic.

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Review: ‘Joker’ May Easily Become an Award Winner

Todd Phillips is best known for “bro” comedies like Starsky and Hutch, The Hangover trilogy,…

Review: ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ is Visually disturbing yet Creatively impressive

As a fan of the horror genre and films from Guillermo del Toro, I’ve had…

Review: ‘The Kitchen’ Looks Good From Afar, But Up Close is a Hot Mess

A film written by a female, directed by a female, and starring three females, is…

#SDCC Exclusive: ‘Supernatural’ Celebrates Its Final Hall H Appearance

I’m not crying, you’re crying. Actually, we were all crying in the last Hall H…

#SDCC Exclusive: ‘Westworld’ Presents a New World in Hall H

The Westworld panel in Hall H at comic-con featured Jeffrey Wright, Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie…

#SDCC Exclusive: Faeries, Magical Creatures, and Orlando Bloom in ‘Carnival Row’

Amazon Prime has a new show coming soon called Carnival Row. The series Carnival Row…

#SDCC Exclusive: The Veronica Mars Panel Shocks Fans With An Early Release

For the Ballroom 20 panel of Veronica Mars, audience members were shown the first episode…

‘The Lion King’ Review: Some Animated Classics Should Just Be Left Alone

It’s the circle of life that classics will be made and then attempted to be…

Review: ‘Men In Black: International’ Has a Refreshing Perspective, but Needs Some Tweaking

There seems to be a resurgence of 90’s films as we reach the end of…

Meet the Cast of ‘Annabelle Comes Home’

On the set visit of Annabelle Comes Home, BGN got a chance to chat with…