Philmguy, World. World, Philmguy.

Pleased to meet yas, Internet readers! I'm Philmguy, AKA Phil Villarreal, movie and video game critic for the Arizona Daily Star, and I'll be using this Brainsplainer* to spread my musings, insights and inappropriate comments on movies, DVDs, video games and whatever else. I'll try and keep your mom out of it, but no promises.

Anyways, I've had my job for five years - I lucked into it straight out of college and have fought to keep it ever since. I've got 20 years' experience playing video games, and at least that much time as a movie nut. I know I've seen 3,150 of movies available on Netflix.

I'm a 2000 graduate of the University of Arizona business school - a lot of good that degree does me - and I run the humor site becauseitoldyouso.com. I've written two books that I'm always trying to get published. You'd better hope that never happens, otherwise I'll whore them to you on this thing nonstop.

That's all for now. Philmguy, away!

*I hate and often refuse to use the word "blog" because it sounds like a silly horror monster and no new word can be cool anymore once Newsweek co-opts it. Brainsplainer is a registered trademark of Randomly Made Up Words LLC. It can be used by anyone but Newsweek, which will be prosecuted to the full extent of my bitching about it all the time even though I'll never cancel my subscription.