Eric Harrison covered Hollywood, reported from major film festivals and wrote movie reviews for 10 years for the Los Angeles Times and Houston Chronicle. Since 2008, his movie coverage has appeared online. You may follow his movie coverage at MovieHouston.com and InsideMovies.net.
Currently, Eric is involved with a web video series for KTRK-13, Houston’s ABC affiliate. Each week, Eric and other panelists will discuss movies opening in Houston.
MovieHouston, as the name suggests, is focused on movie happenings and openings in the nation’s fourth largest city. Each day, he writes about movies that are opening in Houston and about local movie-related events. The website also frequently gives away free tickets to advanced screenings, autographed movie posters and newly released DVDs.
InsideMovies.net takes a broader perspective on movies and on Hollywood. The site is filled with movie news and views, video features and movie photos.
Eric has written professionally about movies since 1998. He studied film as an undergraduate at the University of Texas but worked as a news reporter for several newspapers until he persuaded editors at the Los Angeles Times in 1997 to allow him to report on and review movies. After taking a year off to study at the University of Michigan on a fellowship, he returned to create a beat on film creativity.
While serving as a backup film reviewer for the Times, his primary job for two years involved writing essays, profiles and feature stories about filmmakers and filmmaking. He visited film sets, spent hours in the homes of stars and directors such as Will Smith, Dustin Hoffman and Wes Craven, interviewing them for stories, and sat beside Anthony Minghella in the editing studio and the director and Walter Murch worked on perfecting the sound for The Talented Mister Ripley.
Eric left the Times in 2000 to return to my hometown, becoming chief film critic of the Houston Chronicle.
You’ll find a small sample of Eric’s film writing along with other work on the Selected Stories page of this website.
Eric Harrison is a Houston writer, critic and cartoonist. He teaches journalism at Texas Southern University. 