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Kim Morgan is a writer whose film, music and culture pieces have ranged from the power of cars in cinema ("Two-Lane Blacktop" the best, of course), to the greatest of film's twist endings to movie's most memorable blondes and more. She writes essays for MSN Movies and authors and runs MSN's daily film blog, Movies Filter. She also writes for Huffington Post.

In addition, Kim served as editorial consultant and writer for ClickStar, where she worked with Peter Bogdanovich on "The Golden Age of Movies," Morgan Freeman on "Our Space" and Danny DeVito, writing and co-producing DeVito's documentary series, "Jersey Docs."

Along with her frequent contributions to LA Weekly and Reel.com, she was head film critic for the Willamette Week and weekly film critic for Portland's daily newspaper, The Oregonian where she also had her own column "Beyond the Multiplex." Her work has appeared in various print and web media, including the Portland Mercury, DVD Journal, DVD Talk, Hollywood.com, VH1 and Salon. In addition, she has written for CBS.

She served as DVD critic on Tech TV's "The Screen Savers" and has appeared as guest film critic on AMC's "The Movie Club with John Ridley," VH1, E! Entertainment, Reelz and Starz. Most recently, she had the honor of sitting in for Roger Ebert, guest hosting "Ebert & Roeper."

Her newest gig -- "Drive, She Said" -- a movie column for Jesse James' hot rod mag, Garage.

She currently lives in Los Angeles with her four cars--a 1974 Datsun 260 Z, 1978 Datsun 280 Z, a 1968 Ford Falcon and a 1971 Ford Torino.