Randy Brantley

Randy Brantley (Cantonese: 蘭迪·布蘭特利 Jyutping: laan4 dik6 bou3 laan4 dak6 lei6) was an American film director, cinematographer, actor and film critic who is known for his box-office hits such as So I'm a Spider, So What? and The Sims. He is perhaps best known for his eponymous annual book of movie and animation capsule reviews, Randy Brantley's Movie and Animation Guide, which was published from 1993 to 2018.

Bio
Brantley was born in Manhattan, New York on September 10, 1969. His mother was an Armenian woman who lived in Manhattan at the time, while his father was a Vietnam War veteran.

In July 1989, having lost his parents, Brantley moved to Kowloon, Hong Kong to "start a new life and look for a job", as stated in a 1998 interview.

On January 1, 2019, during his trip to Tokyo, Japan, Brantley was fatally injured in the. He was rushed in the hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:00 a.m. JST.