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Brian Collins

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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May 12, 2022

‘True Mothers’: A Sad, If Slow-Paced, Examination of Japanese Life

Photo: ‘True Mothers’ A Tragedy in the Making We have two mothers, except one has the other’s child. If ‘True Mothers’ was an American film, conceived with American values in mind, the conflict would probably play out a fair bit differently. Infertility...

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May 3, 2022

Video Games Are Not Movies: The Problem of “Cinematic” Gaming

Photo: Video games Gaming’s Ancestry and Legitimacy One thing to be grateful for is that the heated “Are video games art?” debates are basically over and done with at this point. Of course, video games are art; they have about as much right to be considered “art” like...

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April 30, 2022

Netflix’s ‘Bubble’ Bursts at the First Sign of Trouble | Japanese Anime

Photo: ‘Bubble’ What Sounds Like a Dream Team on Paper I was somewhat excited for ‘Bubble’, leading up to its Netflix premiere. While animated features generally look better than their TV counterparts, few in recent years can claim to be as visually dazzling as...

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April 27, 2022

Preparing for Cannes Film Festival 2022: Five Palme d’Or Winners You Should Check Out

Photo: Cannes Film Festival 2022 Catching Up on a Bit of Film History To track the Cannes Film Festival is to track a large portion of film history. Obviously, a single film festival won’t be able to encapsulate the incredibly wide breadth of Cinema, which is partly...

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April 20, 2022

‘Gensan Punch’: A Boxer with a Prosthetic Leg Strives for Greatness

Photo: ‘Gensan Punch’ Boxing and the Art of Overcoming Adversity A bit of a tangent, but for all of HBO Max’s virtues (and there are many), it’s not well-equipped for original programming that’s also subtitled. I watched Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Drive My Car’ a few weeks...

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Brian Collins

Latest Brian Collins

‘True Mothers’: A Sad, If Slow-Paced, Examination of Japanese Life

Video Games Are Not Movies: The Problem of “Cinematic” Gaming

Netflix’s ‘Bubble’ Bursts at the First Sign of Trouble | Japanese Anime

‘Gensan Punch’: A Boxer with a Prosthetic Leg Strives for Greatness

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