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.
Video Version of this Article Photo: Mamoru Hosoda/Studio Chizu An Introduction to Mamoru Hosoda In the somewhat narrow world of mainstream anime, a few names stand out: Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Makoto Shinkai. A fourth name that comes to my mind, belonging to...
Video Version of this Article Photo: Venice Film Festival The Oldest Film Festival’s Highest Honor The Cannes Film Festival is the most prestigious of its kind in the world, but the Venice Film Festival isn’t far behind. Founded in 1932, the Venice Film Festival is...
Photo: ‘The Princess’ Returning to the Much-Told Story of Princess Diana We didn’t need another film about the late Princess Diana. The story of Princess Diana, is a familiar and repetitive legend of modern Hollywood. . In an objectively short amount of time, the...
Photo: ‘The Fly’ Jeff Goldblum: Actor and Charismatic Figure Of all the great actors in Hollywood, few are as distinctive as Jeff Goldblum, a man who has been imitated and parodied yet never properly replicated. Like similarly eccentric (but more...
Photo: ‘Carnival of Souls’ ‘Carnival of Souls’: No Money? No Problem! The film we’re talking about today is remarkable for a few reasons, not the least of these being the fact that it was directed by someone who wasn’t really a director and produced by a film studio...
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