Maitland McDonagh is Senior Movies Editor of TV Guide. A frequent TV and panel-discussion commentator, she has appeared on NBC, Bravo, WE, the BBC and elsewhere, and provides audio commentary and print essays for Criterion and other DVD producers. McDonagh has written for publications worldwide, including The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Film Comment, Time Out New York, Premiere, and Interview, and is the author of four books. Born and raised in Manhattan, McDonagh graduated from Hunter College and earned her MFA in Film from Columbia University, where she co-founded and edited Columbia Film Review. She earned her degree while simultaneously serving as head of publicity for New York City Ballet, working under George Balanchine and Peter Martins. During this time she wrote extensively on the cinema and published her first book, Broken Mirrors / Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento. The cutting-edge magazine Paper found it "a remarkable and exciting work." While teaching as an adjunct professor of film at Hunter College and Brooklyn College, she published her next two works. Time magazine film critic Richard Corliss, in an article on direct-to-video movies, quoted McDonagh from "her excellent book, Filmmaking on the Fringe". Of her follow-up, The 50 Most Erotic Films of All Time, Video Watchdog said: "What is most consistently sexy about this book is McDonagh's own narrative voice — knowledgeable and knowing, fun and game, with a sense of humor as dry as champagne." McDonagh has appeared on panels for The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The American Museum of the Moving Image, and lectured at venues as diverse as the Huntington (NY) Arts Center and the Jyväskylä (Finland) Arts Festival. She has appeared on NBC's Today, discussing the 2006 Golden Globe Awards, and in the popular Bravo miniseries The 100 Scariest Movie Moments and its 2006 sequel, Even Scarier Movie Moments. Other TV specials include The 100 Greatest Sexy Moments for the UK's Channel Four; Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film for the BBC; Night Bites: Women and Their Vampires for WE; and Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror for IFC. As well, McDonagh was the American correspondent for British Armed Forces Radio, providing a wry weekly commentary on US news and cultural events. She additionally provides interviews and second-channel commentary for DVD releases. American Cinematographer magazine said of her work on the DVD of director Paul Schrader's Blue Collar : "What really makes this DVD worth the price is one of the most rollicking director commentaries in recent memory. In an innovation that hopefully will catch on elsewhere, [distributor] Anchor Bay has employed a foil in journalist Maitland McDonagh, who contributes her own sharp insights while keeping Schrader on course." The 2007 Criterion DVD boxed set Monsters and Madmen includes a new McDonagh essay on film legend Boris Karloff. McDonagh appears weekly on both the TV Guide podcast and TV Guide's "Movie Talk" vodcast. She is as well an officer of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Her new book, the personal film guide Movie Lust, is now in stores.