About Bryan Krull and Evan Crean

Bryan Krull has been teaching history at the secondary and college level for the past 15 years, since earning his Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He previously authored the award-winning historical novel Lil’ Choo-Choo Johnson, Bluesman and currently lives in New York with his wife and two children.

Evan Crean has been a film critic in Boston, Massachusetts for over seven years. He has written hundreds of articles about film for Starpulse.com and for his own site ReelRecon.com. He is also a founding member of the Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA), a co-host of the weekly film podcast Spoilerpiece Theatre, a contributing editor for NewEnglandFilm.com, and a staff writer for The Independent. He currently lives in the Boston area with his fiancé.

Bryan and Evan met at Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut, where Bryan was Evan’s history teacher and the faculty advisor to his ‘80s Movie Club. Their continued friendship and mutual appreciation for films from the 1980s inspired them to create Your ’80s Movie Guide to Better Living, Volume 1.