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.
Photo: ‘White Noise’ Noah Baumbach: The Auteur’s Career Takes Another Left Turn Whereas some filmmakers make the big time with their debut feature, Noah Baumbach has been around for well over twenty years, and only recently has he been getting his due. A...
Photo: ‘Lars and the Real Girl’ We take Ryan Gosling for granted now. The Canadian powerhouse has been with us for about two decades now, and ever since his star-making role in ‘The Notebook’ back in 2004, he’s been one of Hollywood’s go-to male...
Photo: ‘Damnation’ Rain, Men, and Dogs: An Exercise in Slow Cinema We don’t get slow movies out of Hollywood. How can we? More importantly, why should we? Hollywood productions, at their best, are supposed to engage the viewer by way of entertainment,...
Photo: ‘Uncle from Another World’ The Beginning of an Unlikely Comedy Anime Firstly, I would like to go on a rant about how Netflix releases content, because it’s been a real thorn in my side for the past few years and I feel like it’s somehow become more of an issue...
Photo: ‘Citizen Ashe’ The Problem Sam Pollard’s Sports Docs Raises Its Head  A truly good documentary has to try harder to be exceptional, and that’s where a film like ‘Citizen Ashe’ strikes me as disappointing. On paper, this is a fine film; it covers the...
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