School
Fairfield University
Expertise
The Halloween Franchise, Classic Comedies, Auteur Filmmakers
- Bill is an actor, comedian, songwriter, music producer and performer with numerous years of experience. He's been a member of SAG-AFTRA since 2010 and has been and continues to be involved with multiple levels of entertainment production.
- A writer of several produced one-act plays as well as a completed TV pilot script and a feature screenplay, Bill has been involved with storytelling from multiple angles.
- Bill has multiple personal connections to people active in the film and television industries today, friendships that also allow him to build a quick and easy rapport when conducting interviews with such artists as David Harbour, John Leguizamo, and Tony Kushner.
Experience
Bill has been writing longform essays on cinema on a regular basis for nearly a decade. Delving into as many genres and time periods across the existence of cinema as possible, he has honed his unique perspective on the past and present of filmmaking into one that attempts to encapsulate the totality of the medium. With bylines at /Film, Polygon, Crooked Marquee, Vague Visages, Bloody Disgusting, Daily Grindhouse, and The Quietus, Bill has established himself as an insightful and well-researched historian of cinema, and is adding daily news desk pieces to his continuous rotation to keep readers informed on the latest happenings in film as well as its history.
Education
Bill has a Bachelor's Degree in the Visual and Performing Arts with a concentration on both Theatre and Film.
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The latest trailer for James Gunn's Superman presents the film as being the antithesis of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, but without feeling like corny nonsense.
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Movie Reviews
By Bill Bria
Materialists, starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal, lends a heartfelt reality to the typical rom-com trappings. Here's our review.
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Drama Movies
By Bill Bria
The Life of Chuck's approach to documenting the life of Charles 'Chuck' Krantz feels like something out of Christopher Nolan's playbook.
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Predator fans have been dying to see Arnold Schwarzenegger return as Dutch, and Predator: Killer of Killers has a canonical way to justify his return.
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Comedy Movies
By Bill Bria
Violence isn't the first word you probably think of when you hear 'Wes Anderson,' but he brilliantly employs it in The Phoenician Scheme.
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Another actor has joined the ranks of having faced off with a Predator, Alien, and Terminator thanks to Predator: Killer of Killers.
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Horror Movies
By Bill Bria
A new, creepy website launched in honor of Danny and Michael Philippou's horror outings for A24, and it implies that their films are set in the same universe.
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Movie Reviews
By Bill Bria
Mike Flanagan adapts Stephen King's novella The Life of Chuck into a thoughtful, empathetic, and tender film. Here's our review.
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In an interview with Roger Ebert, legendary boxer Muhammad Ali spoke about his feelings about Sylvester Stallone's Rocky movies.
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Horror Movies
By Bill Bria
As filmmaker James Cameron winds down production on Avatar: Fire and Ash, he'll also begin co-writing a new horror movie called The Devils.
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Comedy Movies
By Bill Bria
Michael Cera explores the dorky-cool dichotomy in The Phoenician Scheme, echoing his underrated character from Twin Peaks: The Return.
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Karate Kid: Legends merges the world of the original film series with the remake starring Jackie Chan, but it completely ignores a major character.
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Comedy Movies
By Bill Bria
Bill Murray is one of the most prolific performers in Wes Anderson's filmography, and his cameo role in The Phoenician Scheme exemplifies that.
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In the aftermath of Dead Reckoning, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning made some major changes to avoid becoming a flop.
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Horror Movies
By Bill Bria
The new serial killer movie Dangerous Animals, which stars Jai Courtney as the killer, offers a nasty twist on a classic Steven Spielberg film.
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The ragtag crew of misfits in Guardians of the Galaxy were partly inspired by James Gunn's love of the weird, wonderful sci-fi show Farscape.
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is brimming with callbacks and Easter eggs, but they aren't just there for nostalgia's sake.
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Movie Reviews
By Bill Bria
Margaret Qualley is fantastic in Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke's Honey Don't!, a stylish noir that isn't as funny as it could be. Here's our review.
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Is Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning really the final adventure for Ethan Hunt? Or will Mission: Impossible 9 happen?
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A twist involving a character's true identity in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a callback to both the first movie and the original TV show.
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning turns something from J.J. Abrams' Mission: Impossible 3 into a very important detail.
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Rumors of a film adaptation of Elden Ring have been circulating for a while, and A24 has confirmed it's happening with one of their prominent directors.
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Movie Reviews
By Bill Bria
The Phoenician Scheme likely won't win over folks tired of Wes Anderson's usual bag of tricks, but it's still a fun, breezy film. Here's our review.
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Horror Movies
By Bill Bria
Ghosts, witches, vampires, slashers, aliens, and creepy clowns have nothing on the greatest horror movie villain, the Final Destination logging truck.
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Malibu's Point Dume, where this classic movie's ending was filmed, is a crucial part of what makes its famously shocking twist so effective.
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Horror Movies
By Bill Bria
The Final Destination franchise proves that everything is connected, and the latest installment, Bloodlines, solidifies the canon of the series' universe.
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A Gears of War movie has been in the works since 2007, and the project seems to have finally found a director that's a good fit for the material.
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