Jason Solomons (born 16 October 1969) is a British film critic, journalist, broadcaster and author.

Career

Solomons is a critic who has appeared on

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and

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and is the former chairman of the

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. He hosted '' Movie Talk'' in 2016, an interview series on

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and has presented a film slot on

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Robert Elms Robert Frederick Elms is an English writer and broadcaster. Elms was a writer for '' The Face'' magazine in the 1980s, and is known for his long-running radio show on BBC Radio London and his 2006 book, ''The Way We Wore''. Early life and educ ...

show for more than 15 years. He is a regular reporter on red carpets, has presented Virgin Atlantic's in-flight entertainment show and has attended every

Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Film Festival (; ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ('), is the most prestigious film festival in the world. Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around ...

since 1997, when he also began his ''Trailer Trash'' column, the first dedicated film diary and gossip column in British newspapers, for ''

The Observer ''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. First published in 1791, it is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. In 1993 it was acquired by Guardian Media Group Limited, and operated as a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' ...

'' newspaper. Solomons' book, ''Woody Allen: Film By Film'' (Carlton Books), was published in 2015.''Woody Allen: Film By Film''
at Carlton Books. His latest film and documentary reviews and interviews can be found on his website.

Early life

Solomons attended Merchant Taylors' School in the

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of Hertfordshire. He studied French and German at

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, Oxford and lived in Paris for a year. After Oxford, Solomons took a postgraduate course in journalism at City University, London before beginning his career as a journalist and the first graduate trainee at ''

The Daily Express The ''Daily Express'' is a national daily United Kingdom middle-market newspaper printed in tabloid format. Published in London, it is the flagship of Express Newspapers, owned by publisher Reach plc. It was first published as a broadsheet i ...

''. There, he became showbiz editor and then film critic, before leaving in 1998 for ''

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''.

Career

Early life

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