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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Dune director Denis Villeneuve is concerned the forced streaming release of 'Dune Part One' did more harm than good for the movie.
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Ryan Gosling soars in the action-packed love letter to stunt performance, The Fall Guy. Here's the ending of the film, explained.
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Head over to Party City and get your own life-size Art the Clown decoration to bring the horror icon home for Halloween!
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Dan Stevens was inspired by three unlikely figures for his role as Trapper in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
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Here's our reading of what happens at the end of Luca Guadagnino's Challengers, the sexy tennis movie starring Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O'Connor.
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A24 put Ari Aster's Hereditary in select IMAX theaters for one night only. Here's what it was like to attend, and how it could be a path forward for Hollywood.
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Guy Ritchie's The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is now in theaters, but we've got the ending explained for anyone who still has questions.
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The Movie Critic was slated to be director Quentin Tarantino's final film, but it's looking like he's having second thoughts.
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Alex Garland's Civil War is a movie of observation that follows people whose job it is to observe as its protagonists through to its ending.
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Not only will the 28 Years Later film be part of a horror trilogy, but Candyman and Marvel's Nia DaCosta might be stepping in to direct the second film.
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The First Omen is a worthy predecessor to the iconic 1976 horror film.
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Dev Patel's Monkey Man is the hottest new action film of the year, but in case fans are still unsure of the story, here is the ending explained.
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French director Bertrand Bonello just out-Marveled the Marvel-style post-credits sequence with his new film, The Beast.
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Wondering how Hollow Earth fits into the MonsterVerse with Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters? Let us explain.
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It's time for another clash of the Titans! Let's head into spoiler territory and break down the ending of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
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Everything old is new again. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire resurrected ideas from Dan Aykroyd's original Ghostbusters script.
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Immaculate, Sydney Sweeney's new nun horror movie has an ending that will shock you to your core.
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The Ghostbusters and all their pals are back with Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Grab your proton pack and get ready to read our ending explained post.
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Two different Godzilla directors making two very different Godzilla movies agree on one very adorable thing.
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After seeing the premiere of the classic movie, The Godfather, actor James Caan stormed out after realizing a favorite scene of his had been cut.
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Jennifer Lopez is joining Netflix for the science-fiction action film, Atlas, and we've got the trailer right here.
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Director Ari Aster's next project, Eddington, boasts a ridiculously stacked cast including Oscar winner Emma Stone
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Robert Downey Jr. has won an Academy Award for Oppenheimer, and this Best Supporting Actor Oscar is right on time.
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Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather is an undeniable classic, but the famed director had to fight for one now iconic moment.
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Sylvester Stallone did a lot of his own stunts, and his body is paying the price.
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Fox had some pretty weird notes for Kevin Costner in Hidden Figures.
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Talk about a deep cut reference! The Futurama writers snuck a nod to an incredibly rare Star Wars toy -- the elusive Yak Face -- into one of their episodes.