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: James Cameron/FeatureFlash Photo Agency/Shutterstock The Days Before ‘The Terminator’ Aside from Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, it’s hard to think of a more important blockbuster director in the past half-century than James...
Photo: ‘Bloodborne’ Introducing a World Without Hope or Meaning What makes a masterpiece? This is a pretty vague and unhelpful question, but it almost inevitably enters your mind when thinking about the “best” of anything — be it movies, novels, or video games. A...
Photo: ‘Star Trek’ 2009: The Year We Made Contact ‘Star Trek’ has been a part of the pop culture landscape more or less consistently since the original show’s premiere in 1966; indeed, the original show only got granted a third season because it had...
Photo: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ New Student in an Old School The second episode of ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ is upon us, and after being a bit hesitant with the first episode, I can say that I’m actually looking forward to more adventures with...
Photo: ‘Nosferatu’ Injecting Scares into Silent Cinema You may struggle to think of a movie you’ve seen that came out prior to 1920; indeed, you might have almost as hard a time with any movie released prior to 1930. The silent era is mostly forgotten now,...
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