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
Following his breakout success with the Dollars Trilogy, Clint Eastwood starred in a mostly forgotten (and somewhat misleadingly titled) Italian anthology film.
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The ending of Cameron Crowe and Tom Cruise's Vanilla Sky can be pretty confusing. Let's take a closer look at it and compare it to the film's alternate ending.
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Clint Eastwood turned down an offer to play James Bond, but ended up directing and starring in a movie that felt like a James Bond parody: The Eiger Sanction.
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Drama Movies
By Lee Adams
The legendary Paul Newman may not be thought of as a traditional Western actor, but he made two great Westerns with one director.
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Inside Man is Spike Lee's biggest hit and one of his most enjoyable movies. We take a look at the film's twisty ending right here.
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Drama Movies
By Lee Adams
This true story-inspired Clint Eastwood film makes for a respectful biopic but also delivers where it counts as a sports movie.
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Horror Movies
By Lee Adams
Kevin Bacon was not exactly thrilled when initially hearing the pitch for what would eventually become a beloved horror comedy.
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Before Moonraker became known as the silliest James Bond film, 007 creator Ian Fleming wrote a very different script for the movie based on his original novel.
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Horror Movies
By Lee Adams
Jennifer Kent's psychological horror movie The Babadook gives maternal fears a terrifying form, and the ending is only tentatively happy.
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Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner played the same character in dueling Wyatt Earp films in the early '90s. Here's who came out on top.
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What do you think about the accents in Peaky Blinders? There have been some complaints about accuracy, but that hasn't affected the show's popularity.
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There have been several movie adaptations of Agatha Christie's beloved mysteries. Here are the 12 best movies based on her work, ranked.
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Todd Phillips' War Dogs starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller is based on true events, here's the real story of Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz.
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Blofeld, James Bond's longtime nemesis, is one of the most famous villains in all of cinema. Here's our ranking of every version of the character.
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Fantasy Shows
By Lee Adams
Wes Craven directed seven segments from the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone. Here's how the horror legend's work on the series stacks up.
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Jason Statham has named this highly-regarded martial arts classic as both one of his favorite movies and a major inspiration for his career.
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Drama Movies
By Lee Adams
Rio Bravo is one of John Wayne's most beloved movies, and it inspired two spiritual sequels that, uh, no one likes talking about quite as much.
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Robert Zemeckis' CGI motion-capture remake of the Beatles movie Yellow Submarine never saw the light of day. That's probably for the best.
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Frank Sinatra once starred in a less-remembered World War II movie that deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as films like The Dirty Dozen.
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Rene Russo's movie career took off in a big way in the 1990s, but as the 21st century rolled around, things changed. Here's why.
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Drama Movies
By Lee Adams
Anatomy of a Fall was one of the best movies of 2023, and its ambiguous ending is likely to keep conversations burning for many years to come.
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Comedy Movies
By Lee Adams
Henry Winkler was nearly cast in John Travolta's role in Grease. Here's why the Happy Days actor declined to play another greaser character.
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What's a few broken bones when you're making movie history? That's the cost of making The Road Warrior, George Miller's action masterpiece.
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There are a lot of good (and not so good) options to choose frrom.
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'As I found the character more, I found those bits a bit more, too, the idiosyncrasies.'
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'I don't think I would have wanted to attempt to make a Barbie film...'
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'This is the end of this story that we wanted to tell...'
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