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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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August 2, 2022

The Last Rodeo: ‘The Misfits’ and Marilyn Monroe’s Final Performance

Photo: Marilyn Monroe An All-Star Cast and a Recipe for Disaster We have to talk about John Huston. The Golden Age of Hollywood saw a deluge of filmmakers who are now almost regarded as gods, such as Orson Welles and Billy Wilder, but few can claim to be even as...

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August 2, 2022

Netflix’s Teen Comedy ‘Boo, Bitch’ Doesn’t Have the Ghost of a Chance

Photo: ‘Boo, Bitch’ The First Episode Is Also the Best I’m about to bully the new Netflix comedy miniseries, ‘Boo, Bitch’, but firstly I do want to be fair to it; in its defense, it faced an uphill battle right from the start. It’s one thing to make a high...

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July 28, 2022

Dakota Johnson’s ‘Persuasion’: A Jane Austen Adaptation That Doesn’t Understand Jane Austen

Photo: ‘Persuasion’ A Mixed Bag of Fine Actors and Bad Ideas I would say we’re going through a Jane Austen renaissance, but that implies Austen ever went out of fashion, indeed, despite being dead for more than two centuries now, Austen’s works remain as talked-about...

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July 25, 2022

The 10th Anniversary of ‘Journey’: Still the Pinnacle of Arthouse Gaming

Photo: ‘Journey’ The Setting of a New Benchmark 2012 saw a deluge of franchise titles in the video game industry, including (but not limited to) ‘Far Cry 3’, ‘Mass Effect 3’, ‘Max Payne 3’, ‘Halo 4’, and so on seemingly into infinity. There were, however,...

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July 7, 2022

Netflix’s Anime Series ‘Bastard!!’: A 1980s Throwback in the Best Way

Photo: ‘Bastard!!’ The New Anime on the Block (with an Old Soul) Given that Netflix is either incapable of or not invested enough to market the overwhelming majority of its content, new shows don’t so much premiere but plop into the unsuspecting viewer’s lap. This is...

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Latest Brian Collins

The Last Rodeo: ‘The Misfits’ and Marilyn Monroe’s Final Performance

Netflix’s Teen Comedy ‘Boo, Bitch’ Doesn’t Have the Ghost of a Chance

Dakota Johnson’s ‘Persuasion’: A Jane Austen Adaptation That Doesn’t Understand Jane Austen

The 10th Anniversary of ‘Journey’: Still the Pinnacle of Arthouse Gaming

Netflix’s Anime Series ‘Bastard!!’: A 1980s Throwback in the Best Way

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