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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It's hard to imagine anyone other than Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson as Batman and Joker, but Tim Burton almost went in a wildly different direction.
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HBO's Harry Potter series is reportedly eyeing one of the stars of I May Destroy You and Black Mirror to play the role of Severus Snape.
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Lacey Chabert has starred in a whole lot of Christmas films for Hallmark, so it's no surprise that her favorite Christmas movies are all classics.
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The correct order to watch the Harold & Kumar movies is fairly simple, although you may want to switch things up around the holiday season.
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It's officially the holiday season and a long-standing holiday favorite featuring a young Johnny Galecki is a predictable hit on Max.
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The Virgin Suicides, Blue Collar, Grosse Pointe Blank, RoboCop, and more: these are the 10 best movies set in Michigan, ranked.
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Ridley Scott's sequel Gladiator II seems to be drawing some major inspiration from one of Shakespeare's best historical plays.
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Cobra Kai season 6 part 2 introduced the character Zara Malik, and fans would be wise to keep an eye on this rising action star.
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What the Prequel Trilogy did for the Star Wars franchise, Wicked Part One is doing for The Wizard of Oz. Let us explain.
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Jeff Goldblum's take on The Wizard of Oz in Wicked is at once wholly unique and the product of every version that came before.
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The twin emperors in Gladiator 2 are drawn from real historical figures, but they also feel inspired by a controversial movie from 1979.
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Ridley Scott returns to the Colosseum and Ancient Rome with Gladiator II. Here, we break down the ending of the blockbuster sequel.
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After much hype, the movie adaptation of Wicked is finally here. Come along with us to Oz as we break down the musical film's ending.
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In its very early stages, Extraction was going to star Dwayne Johnson. Here's why Chris Hemsworth eventually ended up in the film instead.
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The feature-length version of Kung Fury is ready to go, so why haven't we seen Arnold Schwarzenegger fighting The Lonely Island's Jorma Taccone on screen yet?
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Stephen King has made his fair share of missteps, but the only thing he truly regrets was making a TV commercial you've probably never seen.
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Fan lists of the Paranormal Activity flicks almost mirror the found footage horror series' Rotten Tomato scores. Here are the franchise's best and worst.
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Jack Nicholson is one of the greatest living actors, but he's not been on screen for over a decade. Here's what happened to one of Hollywood's best.
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One of the most memorable sounds from Alien almost wound up in Star Trek Beyond. Here's why a key Nostromo sound never made it on the Starship Enterprise.
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John Wick fans were treated to some never-before-seen footage from Ballerina last night, and it looks like the spin-off could have the goods.
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In addition to the gruesome and graphic violence certain to make gorehounds cheer, Terrifier 3 also snuck in some cameos to please the hardcore horror crowd.
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International governments ban American movies all the time, but China banned 'Back to the Future' for a truly ridiculous reason.
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A major motion picture based on a Marvel comic produced by George Lucas during the peak of his filmmaking career sounds like a sure-fire hit, but it wasn't.
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Margot Robbie's favorite movie of all time is a crime thriller written by a filmmaker she would later work with on one of her most critically acclaimed films.
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A massive, lore-altering twist regarding Obi-Wan Kenobi that would have changed everything was cut from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace at the last minute.
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Francis Cobb in The Penguin lives with an under discussed condition, and the Batman spin-off series is doing
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M. Night Shyamalan's favorite movies include a mix of genres, from horror to comedy, but they all have one thing in common.