The entertaining and multi-talented Giovanni Burton “John” Campea is a director, writer, producer, film critic, reviewer, and commentator. He is the host of The John Campea Show, and was the creator of the award-winning AMC Movie Talk. And you don’t want to mess with his opinions, either, as he’s also a mixed martial arts practitioner having trained at former UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture’s gym Legends MMA and at the UFC training center!

Born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada, Campea attended Niagara College, and then later went to Tyndale University. He founded and ran the film website The Movie Blog from 2003 to 2009, and was the editor-in-chief of AMC Movie News from 2008 to 2015. He was then hired to run Collider Movie Talk, where he served as senior producer, host and showrunner. He left in 2017 and began to release videos on his YouTube channel. As a filmmaker, he released his first documentary, Prince of Peace: God of War, in 2008, and the following year completed his first feature film, The Anniversary. He now runs his own production company, Carson Drive Media, and released his second documentary, Movie Trailers: A Love Story, in 2020. His debut novel, The Pride, was published in 2016.

Campea regularly connects with his hundreds of thousands of followers and fans through Instagram, and Twitter, posting pictures and videos about his life around movies and entertainment. He also has a dedicated YouTube channel, John Campea, and an official merchandise website, thejohncampeashow.com.