Isaac Feldberg

Isaac is a pop culture journalist and a freelance editor at Inverse covering TV and film. A member of the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Boston Society of Film Critics, he also has bylines at the Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Fortune Magazine, Paste Magazine, Vulture, The Playlist, and RogerEbert.com, among others. In his off-hours, he enjoys climbing, hanging out with Koda (also pictured), and buying too many horror movie scores on vinyl.

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