School
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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Comedy Movies
By Lee Adams
The same year "Goodfellas" came out, Rick Moranis and Steve Martin teamed up for a wise-guy comedy that's technically a sequel to Martin Scorsese's crime epic.
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The controversy around Brian De Palma's Scarface shouldn't have been surprising, seeing as the Al Pacino film was a remake of a banned 1930s crime classic.
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A young Reese Witherspoon flubbed her audition for this acclaimed crime thriller starring Robert De Niro, but that might've been for the best.
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Comedy Shows
By Lee Adams
All in the Family was an Americanized remake of a British sitcom that dealt with many of the same hot-button issues as Norman Lear's groundbreaking show.
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Comedy Movies
By Lee Adams
23 years before he starred as Lex Luthor in Superman, Nicholas Hoult had a breakout role alongside Hugh Grant in About A Boy.
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Despite boasting a star-studded cast that includes Julia Roberts in a very early role, this Western ended up as a largely forgotten box-office bomb.
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Before all of that incredible "Gladiator" fame, Russell Crowe needed some serious help getting signed on to a certain Gene Hackman Western.
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Clint Eastwood asked for less dialogue in this war movie, and the film's director agreed, handing many of his lines to his co-star Richard Burton instead.
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This HBO movie is the rare film to dive into the behind-the-scenes drama surrounding Citizen Kane and Orson Welles' off-screen battle to make his magnum opus.
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Comedy Movies
By Lee Adams
Landman fans looking for a lighter-hearted angle on the oil industry would do well to check out this Burt Lancaster film with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score.
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Drama Movies
By Lee Adams
Martin Scorsese is now considered one of our greatest living filmmakers, but he was fired from one of his first directing jobs.
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RoboCop wouldn't work as well as it does without Peter Weller, but the actor was briefly fired during production after tensions flared behind the scenes.
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Drama Movies
By Lee Adams
Several polls have deemed this Naomi Watts-led David Lynch film a masterpiece for the way it marries Lynch's uncanniness with its unnerving, emotional plot.
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It's not surprising this controversial Dustin Hoffman movie isn't readily available to watch today, seeing as it's only grown more problematic with time.
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Horror Movies
By Lee Adams
Roger Corman produced some over-the-top, schlocky slashers over the years, but one of his tamer fares was banned in the UK for nearly 40 years.
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As problematic as John Wayne was in real life, he was a magnificent presence on-screen. Here are five of his best movies you can currently stream for free.
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Drama Movies
By Lee Adams
Peter Jackson's 1994 drama starring Kate Winsley and Melanie Lynskey is tough to find today, but it's absolutely worth a watch.
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Comedy Movies
By Lee Adams
It's high time studios bring back the screwball comedy! In the meantime, legendary actor Cary Grant's best one is currently streaming for free.
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Here's what Taylor Sheridan had to say about the themes of his 2015 film Sicario, and a look at how they relate to the movie's characters and narrative.
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Drama Movies
By Lee Adams
Kenneth Branagh's Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile incorporated this particularly famous piece of jewelry into its whodunnit storyline.
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Drama Movies
By Lee Adams
Clint Eastwood once made a Western that some people consider to be connected to one of his greatest characters, but it's more of a spiritual sequel.
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Horror Movies
By Lee Adams
Audiences have always liked Kurt Russell, but that didn't stop the actor from starring in five of his biggest box office flops in as many years in the 1980s.
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After Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood took a break from directing to star in this action thriller that President Bill Clinton loved, and it's easy to see why.
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The Western is never going out of cinematic style, no matter what, so let's talk about the one that was voted the greatest of the 21st century.
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Years before starring in RoboCop, Peter Weller played the lead role in a bizarre '80s sci-fi flop that's gone down in history as one of the great cult classics.
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Frank Sinatra was once attached to play a role that was eventually played by Clint Eastwood, but Sinatra left his mark on the project anyway.
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Clint Eastwood Westerns (and their scores) have inspired many songs over the years, including a killer track by My Chemical Romance.
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