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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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February 27, 2022

Indian Superstar Madhuri Dixit’s ‘The Fame Game’: A Binge-Worthy Bollywood Crime Drama

Photo: ‘The Fame Game’ A Woman Under the Influence I often watch movies or shows I knew at least a little something about before diving in, but ‘The Fame Game’ was a blind watch — and well worth my time, as it turned out. ‘The Fame Game’ is an eight-episode series,...

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February 24, 2022

Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Belle’: The Internet As the Final Frontier

Photo: ‘Belle’ Director Mamoru Hosoda may be one of the unsung heroes of animation in the past decade and change, especially when it comes to the wide realm of Japanese animation. Since his breakout hit with ‘The Girl Who Leapt Through Time’ in 2006,...

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February 18, 2022

‘Fistful of Vengeance’: A Well-Meaning East-Asian Action Romp Let Down by Bland Aesthetics

Photo: ‘Fistful of Vengeance’ As a quick disclaimer, I have never seen even one episode of ‘Wu Assassins’, a Netflix show whose chances of getting a second season are apparently dubious. ‘Fistful of Vengeance’ is supposed to be a spinoff/sequel to ‘Wu Assassins’, but...

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February 18, 2022

The 80th Anniversary of ‘Casablanca’: A Truly Timeless Classic

Photo: ‘Casablanca’ Who Hasn’t Heard of ‘Casablanca’? It’s taken for granted now that ‘Casablanca’ is one of the greatest American films ever made. Why even try to explain it? Most of us have at least a cursory awareness of the story of Rick and Ilsa,...

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Brian Collins

Latest Brian Collins

Indian Superstar Madhuri Dixit’s ‘The Fame Game’: A Binge-Worthy Bollywood Crime Drama

Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Belle’: The Internet As the Final Frontier

‘Fistful of Vengeance’: A Well-Meaning East-Asian Action Romp Let Down by Bland Aesthetics

The 80th Anniversary of ‘Casablanca’: A Truly Timeless Classic

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