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Bill Bria

Bill Bria is a writer, actor, songwriter, and comedian. "Sam & Bill Are Huge," his 2017 comedy music album with partner Sam Haft, reached #1 on an Amazon Best Sellers list, and the duo maintains an active YouTube channel and plays regularly all across the country. Bill's acting credits include an episode of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” and a featured part in Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” He lives in New York City, which hopefully will be the setting for a major motion picture someday.

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<i>Shocker</i>: Wes Craven's Would-Be Freddy Competitor — Bill Bria

Shocker: Wes Craven's Would-Be Freddy Competitor

Oct 28th, 2019

In 1989, the popularity of the Nightmare On Elm Street series and its flagship character, Freddy Krueger, were still going strong. Wes Craven, who'd...

How <i>The Wild Bunch</i> and <i>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</i> Helped the Western Ride into the Sunset — Bill Bria

How The Wild Bunch and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Helped the Western Ride into the Sunset

Oct 7th, 2019

Perhaps the most notable example of a prominent movie genre that disappeared almost entirely is the Western. Once inescapable — there were close to...

NYFF Report: Reality vs Fiction — Bill Bria

NYFF Report: Reality vs Fiction

Oct 3rd, 2019

Film is a strange medium. It requires creating images and moments that must have the semblance of reality but which are totally fictional. At least,...

NYFF Report: Crime & Consequences — Bill Bria

NYFF Report: Crime & Consequences

Sep 30th, 2019

Crime films deal with criminals in a variety of ways, but there is a temptation (often indulged) to treat the criminal as an “other,” as “the...

EXCLUSIVE: Future <i>Fast & Furious</i> Spinoffs Revealed! — Bill Bria

EXCLUSIVE: Future Fast & Furious Spinoffs Revealed!

Aug 5th, 2019

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is a hit, and it’s clear that the Fast & Furious franchise has no intention of putting on the...

20 Years Ago, <i>Lake Placid</i> and <i>Deep Blue Sea</i> Made Animal-Attack Movies Self-Aware — Bill Bria

20 Years Ago, Lake Placid and Deep Blue Sea Made Animal-Attack Movies Self-Aware

Jul 16th, 2019

Human beings have a natural fear of animal attacks, a fear that horror movies have exploited since cinema began. At first they tended to be extinct...

<i>Shaft</i>: The Genre-Hopping Franchise — Bill Bria

Shaft: The Genre-Hopping Franchise

Jun 13th, 2019

A new film entitled Shaft is being released this month, and thus the Shaft series joins the rare and dubious club of movie franchises that contain...

EXCLUSIVE: An Interview with 2020 Presidential Candidate Godzilla — Bill Bria

EXCLUSIVE: An Interview with 2020 Presidential Candidate Godzilla

May 29th, 2019

Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg, Biden, O’Rourke, Harris, Yang. Uh ... I wanna say Islee? Is that one? The list of Democratic candidates for the 2020...

Tribeca Report: Women Take Control — Bill Bria

Tribeca Report: Women Take Control

May 6th, 2019

As is increasingly the case in modern cinema, groups underrepresented onscreen are having their stories told more frequently and more honestly than...

Tribeca Report: Dependent on Monsters — Bill Bria

Tribeca Report: Dependent on Monsters

May 4th, 2019

Dependency can be horrifying. The feeling that your life would suffer irreparable damage if someone or something were removed from it creates a dread...

Updates on the Marvel Cinematic Universe from Bill's Mom — Bill Bria

Updates on the Marvel Cinematic Universe from Bill's Mom

Apr 17th, 2019

If you’re looking for a recap of the Marvel Cinematic Universe facts you absolutely need to know before Avengers: Endgame, then face front, true...

Jordan Peele’s Sleight Of Hand: Marketing <i>Us</i> — Bill Bria

Jordan Peele’s Sleight Of Hand: Marketing Us

Apr 1st, 2019

Spoilers for Us. For most in the film business, marketing is simply a tool, a way to let potential customers know about a product being sold. There...

The Best of Percy Rodrigues, Voice of a Thousand Trailers — Bill Bria

The Best of Percy Rodrigues, Voice of a Thousand Trailers

Feb 7th, 2019

On the whole, movie trailers haven’t had narrators for over a decade. They’ve been replaced by overbearing musical scores, ominous cover versions...

M. Night Shyamalan's Abandoned Surprise Sequels — Bill Bria

M. Night Shyamalan's Abandoned Surprise Sequels

Jan 17th, 2019

The final scene in 2017’s Split revealed that the movie, thought to be a self-contained M. Night Shyamalan thriller, had been a secret sequel to...

Bill Bria Says Don't Forget: <i>Assassination Nation</i> — Bill Bria

Bill Bria Says Don't Forget: Assassination Nation

Dec 26th, 2018

Rather than acting as a release valve on the past few years, 2018 continued to increase the pressure, as American culture grows steadily more hostile...

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