About This Site


Expert on movies NPR on Stephen Michael Brown SilverScreenCapturecom Photo credit Chucky Kahng

Welcome! I’m Stephen Michael Brown, and I’ve harbored a lifelong fascination with the movies. I am pleased to be a member of

As a movie critic and writer for Gannett News, Creative Loafing, Pre-Vue Magazine, Reeltime Networks, TheaterMania and other assorted outlets for more than 20 years, often under the syndicated column “Lights… Camera… Reaction!,” I’ve collected more than 1,000 of my capsule reviews for this Silver Screen Capture Web site. Seven years ago I became a bit more prolific in reviewing again and have since been interviewed and quoted by NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Best Life, The Christian Science Monitor and PR Week for my perspectives on film. Even a recent edition of John Wayne: The Magazine includes my perspectives on The Duke’s “Movies with a Message.”

This site includes a sampling of reviews published between 1991 and today, plus updates on film festivals and timely industry news. We were recently invited by Dolby to chronicle the Academy Awards.

Additionally, check out our YouTube channel.

An admirer of Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert’s populist and lively writing about movies, I ascribe a letter grade rating to films as a way to cut to the chase. As a subscriber to the auteur theory by Andrew Sarris, I also believe movies are largely the product of “director as author” – that’s why I always mention the director by name in reviews. There’s also a streaming recommendations section updated weekly with movie news about new titles to consider from your download device, smartest of smart TVs or dispenser of choice.

By day, I lead one of the nation’s top integrated marketing firms, Cookerly Public Relations, where amazing colleagues embrace my moonlighting as a blogger and critic. This site was recently featured on VoyageATL and Simply Buckhead.

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I develop my movie review content in the Town at Trilith, a creative community in Georgia which includes Trilith Studios, the second largest film production facility in the U.S. Here’s a Day in the Life at Trilith, and you’ll see me in sequences at the sound stages, in the writing room and around the proverbial campfire.