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: ‘Love & Gelato’ To Rome with Love (and Gelato) A lot of us have been at that point in our lives, where we’re done with high school and now we’re applying for colleges — hopefully with scholarships. You realize that you’re about to enter a...
Photo: Pride Month Made Perhaps with Good Intentions As a queer person, I should be pleased with the truckloads of media representation I’ve been seeing, whether it be on TV or through social media sites, as of late. I’m writing this in June, and as you know, June (in...
Photo: ‘In a Lonely Place’ A Novel, a Man, a Woman, a Murder ‘In a Lonely Place’ was released in 1950, deep into the era of the classic film noir, when the Golden Age of Hollywood was at its brightest; TV had not yet become popular enough to present an...
Photo: ‘Predestination’ Doing the Impossible — in More Ways Than One You may recall that not too long ago we celebrated the 25th anniversary of ‘Starship Troopers’, one of the goofiest (and yet most politically serious) movies of its time. The film was a very loose...
Photo: Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man’ The Superhero Movie That Could There had been successful superhero movies before ‘Spider-Man’, such as Richard Donner’s ‘Superman’ from 1978 (to this day still arguably the best film about Superman), along with Tim...
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