Bill Bria
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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Stories By Bill Bria
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The Borderlands video games provide plenty of different angles for Eli Roth's adaptation, so here's the film version's ending, explained.
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Eli Roth's Borderlands may look like the video game come to life, but the lack of innovation in its adaptation leaves it lifeless.
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TRON director Steven Lisberger shopped the film around to various studios and artists before Disney came aboard, including Stan 'The Man' Lee himself.
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M. Night Shyamalan has famously made a cameo in almost all of his films. Here's our ranking of the director's appearances.
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Netflix has announced the release date for Squid Game season 2 and confirmed that season 3 will be the end of the smash-hit, Emmy-winning series.
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Stan Lee may no longer be with us, but Deadpool & Wolverine made sure he still had a cameo. And don't worry, there are no cursed AI holograms here!
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Deadpool & Wolverine closes one chapter of Marvel movie history and opens another for the MCU. Here's the ending explained and where they may head next.
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Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung was inspired by several directors from the 1930s and '40s when it came to the romance in his new blockbuster.
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Minari director Lee Isaac Chung was afraid to direct a big-budget movie like Twisters, but in our interview, he tells us why he decided to face his fears.
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Twisters is a crowd-pleasing, great time at the theater. Does the ending indicate a sequel? Let us explain.
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Hollywood has a serious problem with splitting up films into parts, but we have the solution.
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The new horror film Longlegs, starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage, arrives in theaters this week. Let's take a look at the ending and what it all means.
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Michael Bay is directing his first television show at Netflix. It's an adaptation of the Vault Comics title Barbaric, and Patrick Stewart is voicing an axe.
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Corey Feldman had his breakthrough in Spielberg produced films like Gremlins and The Goonies, but he almost starred in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.
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MaXXXine closes out director Ti West's retro slasher trilogy with a rainbow of inspirations from horror movies and other adjacent genres.
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MaXXXine brings Ti West's trilogy to a close, and we're here to explain the ending and how it ties the themes of X and Pearl together.
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We're taking the banana out of the tailpipe and breaking down the ending for Eddie Murphy's legacy sequel Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.
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Horror movies aren't just for the Halloween season and films like I Know What You Did Last Summer and Jaws are proof of it!
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A Quiet Place: Day One expands the lore of the aliens in this prequel film, and we have the answer to the film's weirdest scene.
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There was no way Adam Wingard wasn't going to include an homage to the most famous moment of Godzilla vs. Kong in his movie.
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Burt Reynolds is a legendary movie star, but even he couldn't avoid the dreaded 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett took story inspiration from an expert; Patton Oswalt's Parks and Recreation character.
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Nothing is sacred anymore so Andrzej Zuławski's Possession is being remade. Let's hope star Robert Pattinson and Smile director Parker Finn pull it off.
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The terrifying Longlegs, starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage, is the best horror movie of the year. Here's our review.
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We investigate a certain director cameo that's been happening in the Bad Boys movies, including Bad Boys: Ride or Die.
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die doesn't ignore Will Smith's now infamous slap from the Oscars.
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die is the fourth film in the action-comedy franchise and we've got the ending explained as we look toward a possible Bad Boys 5.