R.I.P. -- Bob Polunsky
As far as I know, longtime San Antonio film critic Bob Polunsky was never a "Robert."
Bob, who died at 85 this week in San Antonio, Texas, was just Bob, a kindred spirit in the love and appreciation of any film really worth watching. He was also never shy about condemning a flawed movie for its shortcomings in a Bob Polunsky style dubbed "Flicker Footnotes." Bob's reviews were direct and sometimes ruthless but always honest.
Bob was well established as The Guy when it came to film criticism in San Antonio when I arrived in 1983. Bob wrote for the Express-News daily newspaper. After a year of general entertainment reporting at the other daily newspaper in town, the now-dark San Antonio Light, I became "that other film critic in town."