Since he started writing for PopMatters in 2006, Matt Mazur has crossed paths with more than one iconic Swedish film star, taken film studies classes alongside American movie stars in the Ivy League, and even gotten his idol Tori Amos to apologize for giving an abstract answer. Mazur has turned in coverage of film festivals, awards ceremonies and pop culture events in Atlanta, Berlin, Copenhagen, Detroit, Montreal, New York and most places in between. Somewhere in the midst of the chaos of being a full-time scholar (film and gender/sexuality), he has managed to talk with some of the most celebrated film personalities of our time: Pedro Almodovar, Margaret Cho, Robert Duvall, Jane Fonda, Pam Grier, Mike Leigh, Sissy Spacek, and Tilda Swinton are among them. Mazur's decided interest in the intersecting roles of class, gender, race and sexuality in film and pop culture continues to inform both his features and reviews for PopMatters and is also the focus of his bi-monthly column Suffragette City. Follow his every move on Twitter @Matt_Mazur - where he tackles important issues such as academia, actresses, awards, the quickly-evolving role of the modern film critic and shoes.