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Josh Bell

Josh Bell is a freelance writer and movie/TV critic based in Las Vegas. He’s the former film editor of Las Vegas Weekly and has written about movies and pop culture for The Dissolve, Comic Book Resources, Film Racket, Polygon, Uproxx and more. He reviews movies weekly on KTNV Channel 13 in Las Vegas and has thousands of his past reviews archived at Rotten Tomatoes. Find him online at:

Jason Harris

Jason Harris is a filmmaker, comedian, actor, writer and content creator who lives in Las Vegas, NV. That sounds like a lot – but Harris loves to keep busy. Harris has sold multiple screenplays and had a television show he co-created and produced on ABC.

As a comic, he’s toured throughout the United States and in Europe and is a regular on the Las Vegas Strip. He was one of the headliners during the initial installment of standup comedy at the Life Is Beautiful Festival. And he was the warmup comic for the hit television show Hell’s Kitchen for two seasons.

Harris created, wrote, directed, produced and costarred in the web series The Defeated which currently has six figure views on Facebook.

After the Route 91 tragedy in Las Vegas, Harris led a group called “First Food Repsonders” and helped coordinate feeding 20,000 people including victims, family members, first responders, hospital staff, police and FBI. His story, which he first wrote as an article, he later cowrote as a comic and is part of the Image Comics graphic novel anthology Where We Live: A Benefit for the Survivors in Las Vegas. At last count, that book had raised over $125,000 for those effected by massacre.

He is a food, music and pop culture writer for magazines including Las Vegas Weekly, Las Vegas Magazine, David Magazine, The Class Project and Vegas Magazine.

Harris has written content for celebrities including Gordon Ramsay (for which he won multiple Addy Awards), Ronda Rousey, The Backstreet Boys, Tape Face and more.

A graduate from the Boston University Film School, Harris has studied acting and improv at The Joseph Bernard Acting Studio in Las Vegas and Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. He has appeared in films that have played festivals all over the world including the Sundance Film Festival, AFI and Austin Film Festival.

Harris is the grandson of Van Harris, a legendary comedian who spent more than six decades making people laugh. Most importantly, Harris is a father and his daughter Scarlett is the love of his life.