Chiao edited two columns: "Cinema Plaza" in the United Daily News and "Everybody's a Critic" in the China Times. She would invite "new wave cinema" critics like Huang Chien-yeh and Chen Kuo-fu to offer their opinions. Their often sharp evaluations of films resulted in a war between them and the film industry.
當時，焦雄屏在聯合報主持的「電影廣場」和中國時報的「一部電影大家看」兩個專欄，邀請黃建業、陳國富等新一代影評人加入評論行列，由於文字鋒銳犀利，爆發了一場「影評、業界對抗戰」。