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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Jurassic World Rebirth doesn't overly rely on plot points from previous Jurassic Park films, but it does feature a brief reference to a major character.
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Movie Reviews
By Bill Bria
Ari Aster plays with political fire with Eddington, a twisted Western that serves as a dark depiction of the state America has gotten itself into.
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M3GAN 2.0 pivots away from horror and instead focuses on sci-fi action, with one character feeling like they were pulled straight out of an anime classic.
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M3GAN 2.0 pivots away from horror and thrusts itself into sci-fi action territory, complete with a running gag about one of action's most ridiculous heroes.
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Drama Movies
By Bill Bria
F1 stars Brad Pitt as a former race driver who comes out of retirement and butts heads with his protégé, echoing the plot of Sylvester Stallone's Driven.
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M3GAN 2.0 isn't a traditional horror movie sequel, but it does follow in the footsteps of one of James Cameron's finest works.
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Brad Pitt's new blockbuster racing movie F1 demands to be seen on an IMAX screen seemingly more than any other IMAX movie before.
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Horror Movies
By Bill Bria
28 Days Later inspired the trend of 'running infected/zombies' and now 28 Years Later is pulling inspiration from the films and TV shows that followed.
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Horror Movies
By Bill Bria
Danny Boyle's new horror sequel 28 Years Later ends up having a lot in common with his underseen 2004 family comedy Millions.
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Horror Movies
By Bill Bria
50 years after its release, the entire film industry is still operating under the new standard set by Steven Spielberg's Jaws.
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Horror Movies
By Bill Bria
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland clearly had some fun messing with franchise-brained horror fans with this Easter egg in 28 Years Later.
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Horror Movies
By Bill Bria
Jaws 3 would've taken the franchise in a different direction had it been made as the comedic sequel to Steven Spielberg's classic that was initially pitched.
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Get yourself a cup of coffee and a slice of pie; we're looking back at Twin Peaks and what led to the cancellation of David Lynch and Mark Frost's classic show.
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Horror Movies
By Bill Bria
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's Jaws, we're celebrating one of the greatest monologues in film history.
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Apple has introduced a new way for movie lovers to watch trailers for new releases on their phones, kicking it off with F1.
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The live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake reunites a pair of Shaun of the Dead veterans so subtly you might not even notice the first time you watch it.
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Astrid in How to Train Your Dragon is Nico Parker's biggest role yet, but here's where else you can see her work in film and television.
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Celine Song's new romance movie Materialists features an homage to a classic sci-fi film that you'd never expect from watching the marketing materials.
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Horror Movies
By Bill Bria
Period-piece horror aficionado Robert Eggers is set to tackle A Christmas Carol, and the Nosferatu director is the perfect person for the job.
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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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