Thom Ernst

Thom Ernst is a Canadian film critic and television host, best known as the final host of the television film series Saturday Night at the Movies.

Originally from Waubamik, Ontario, he later moved to Waterloo Region, attending Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School and the University of Waterloo.

He began his career as a writer of stage plays, including Masculine Slaps, Kings and Little Ones, Henry Winkler Eats Free, and To Quiet Blue. He wrote the screenplay for Rosa's Time, a short film that screened at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.

In 2023 he published The Wild Boy of Waubamik, a memoir of his childhood experiences as a victim of physical and sexual abuse by his adoptive father.