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Brian Collins

Brian Collins is a cinephile, an avid reader, and a writer at The Hollywood Insider. Brian is a firm believer that great Cinema can come from any genre and from any country. While he has a fine time with dramas that garner attention come awards season, Brian likes to analyze and celebrate genre filmmaking, such as science fiction, fantasy, horror, westerns, etc. With The Hollywood Insider as support, Brian hopes to bring light to genre films, both American and abroad. He is also a contributor to the blog series Young People Read Old SFF.

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September 19, 2025

The Hollywood Legacy of Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick, Pulp Philosopher Between the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the novels of Andy Weir, we know that science fiction sells — except this was not always the case. Back in the 1950s and ‘60s, book publications of sci-fi novels and short stories were just...

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October 22, 2024

Cowboys and Capes: A Troubling Comparison Between Westerns and Superhero Movies

A Genre Too Big to Fail (So They Say) In 2022 alone so far, we’ve gotten Matt Reeves’s ‘The Batman,’ Sam Raimi’s ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,’ and of course (who can forget?) ‘Morbius.’ We’re not quite halfway into the year and we have three big-name...

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August 10, 2024

A Tribute to Emmanuel Lubezki: The Superstar Cameraman of Our Age

The Humble Beginnings of a Master Emmanuel Lubezki is one of the most decorated cinematographers currently working, having garnered three back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Cinematography — an unprecedented feat and something of a victory lap for a man who had...

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June 26, 2024

A Tribute to Don Bluth: The Animation Auteur Who Commanded Disney to Become Better

The Dark Age of American Animation For close to a century now, Disney has been synonymous (and indeed, treated as all but interchangeable) with American animation at large. If you go back and watch a Disney animated feature from the 1940s or ‘50s, you’ll notice just...

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June 3, 2024

Streaming Services and International Films: An Inseparable Cinematic Romance We Cherish

How Things Used to Be Assuming you’re not too young, you probably remember what life was like before the age of high-speed and high-quality video streaming; it was a dark, primitive period in human history. Of course, given my age, some of my fondest childhood...

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The Hollywood Legacy of Philip K. Dick

Cowboys and Capes: A Troubling Comparison Between Westerns and Superhero Movies

A Tribute to Emmanuel Lubezki: The Superstar Cameraman of Our Age

A Tribute to Don Bluth: The Animation Auteur Who Commanded Disney to Become Better

Streaming Services and International Films: An Inseparable Cinematic Romance We Cherish

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