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    Suffolk College (UK)
 
    Expertise
    Czech Cinema, Cult Movies, Folk Horror
  
     
            
                - Lee has served as a jury member for the BRNO16 International Short Film Festival.
- He once introduced the Czech classic "The Elementary School" to incoming Erasmus students on behalf of Masaryk University at Kino Scala, Brno.
- He joined the team at /Film in 2021 and has mainly focused on showing lots of love to classic movies.
Experience
Lee has been writing about movies online for over 15 years and got his first paid gig as a resident film critic for the Brno Expat Center in 2014. With a passion for the cinema of his adopted home country, he started Czech Film Review. He had the pleasure of interviewing one of his idols, legendary Czech New Wave cinematographer Jaromir Sofr. Lee has written for several outlets, including Way Too Indie, High on Film, Kafkadesk, Art of the Movies, Prague Daily Monitor, and The Movie Buff. Lee is the co-founder of the Brno Writers Group and the Brno Short Story Writing Competition.
Education
Lee studied film at degree level before departing on a 20-year journey of obsessive self-education.
             
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                Kevin Costner's notorious action-adventure movie Waterworld might've been less tumultuous (and costly) to make if Costner had heeded Steven Spielberg's warning. Read More
 
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                                Horror Movies
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                 Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins made a legendary duo in The Silence of the Lambs, but the pair seldom spoke on set. Here's why. Read More
 
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                Oddly enough, Francis Ford Coppola and James Cameron both worked on failed projects called Dark Angel (although they had nothing to do with each other). Read More
 
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                 Method acting has gotten a bad name from people who don't seem to understand what it means, and that bugs Daniel Day-Lewis. Read More
 
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                 Michelle Pfeiffer was relatively unknown when she auditioned for Scarface, and she thinks accidentally injuring star Al Pacino got her the part. Read More
 
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                Of all of Ernie Hudson's many roles over his long career, his personal favorite might seem like a big surprise to some people. Read More
 
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                Before he started making cameos in nearly every Marvel Cinematic Universe film, Stan Lee appeared in this horror-thriller-comedy from a B-movie legend. Read More
 
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                 Michael Rooker might be known for his collaborations with James Gunn now, but the Marvel star's breakthrough role helped establish the NC-17 rating. Read More
 
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                Any character played by Tim Curry can only have been played by Tim Curry, but The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger wanted to try his hand at his most famous. Read More
 
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                 One of Paul Newman's best roles almost went to his longtime friend and occasional co-star Robert Redford. Here's what happened. Read More
 
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                Arnold Schwarzenegger took this expensive action movie flop hard, and it wound up marking the beginning of the end of his heyday at the box office. Read More
 
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                 David Fincher doesn't care for the way this hit horror-thriller movie colored people's perception of Se7en, but he's oversimplifying the situation a little. Read More
 
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                With the release of Tron: Ares, one of our writers decided to go back and watch the original Tron for the first time. Does the film hold up? Read More
 
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                Stephen King's 10 favorite movies include classics by the likes of Steven Spielberg, but also this thriller, which has been reevaluated since initially bombing. Read More
 
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                 Sean Connery once revealed that his underrated war movie The Hill probably wouldn't have happened were it not for James Bond. Read More
 
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                 Steve Buscemi's acting career might've taken off earlier if his audition had been successful for this well-received 1980s comedy starring Danny DeVito. Read More
 
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                 The Big Bang Theory was one of the most popular sitcoms in the world less than a decade ago, so one /Film writer decided to finally watch its pilot in 2025. Read More
 
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                 Comedy becomes dated quicker than any other genre, and these British sitcoms haven't aged well (or, in some cases, were never really 'in date' to begin with). Read More
 
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                Robert Zemeckis might've never gotten to make Back to the Future if it hadn't been for the Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner-starring Romancing the Stone. Read More
 
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                The Vanessa Kirby-led Netflix thriller Night Always Comes draws inspiration from several films, but this '80s crime flick was clearly the biggest influence. Read More
 
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                 This Robert Redford movie is the embodiment of Oscar bait, but what would it have been like if Jeremy Irons had starred instead (as originally planned)? Read More
 
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                Always is generally considered one of Steven Spielberg's worst films, and it didn't help that it was a remake of a far better-received, older war movie. Read More
 
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                The Clint Eastwood-starring war film Kelly's Heroes takes inspiration from a Guinness World Records story involving possibly the greatest real-world heist ever. Read More
 
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                One of our writers decided to check out the 2005 version of Fantastic Four for the very first time. Is this Marvel film worth watching? Read More
 
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                John Wayne and director John Ford made a lot of famous Westerns together, but Wayne felt that this romantic dramedy was one of their strongest collaborations. Read More