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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/Film sat down with Mary Livanos, an executive producer of The Marvels, to talk about fitting the film into the MCU's continuity, its cosmic setting, and more.
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Tommy Doyle in Halloween Kills was almost the type of man who channeled his trauma through musical theater.
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Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One director Christopher McQuarrie said he wasn't sure the cameras filming the train crash would survive the fall.
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The animatronics in Five Nights at Freddy's are some of the scariest monsters to come out of horror in a while. But which is the scariest?
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The only name given to Alden Ehrenreich’s Oppenheimer character is Senate Aide. In a new book, we find out why.
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Rob Zombie's Halloween is hated by many horror fans, but not this writer.
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Carrie Fisher was already a well-regarded script doctor by the time of Return of the Jedi. It's a pity the filmmakers didn't listen to her one dialogue edit.
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Killers of the Flower Moon sees two of Martin Scorsese's most trusted collaborators finally working together: Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Give him the crown, Chucky is now the undisputed king of horror icons with the franchise crossovers shown on season 3 of the hit series.
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/Film spoke with Renny Harlin, who has returned to the world of horror by directing the upcoming The Strangers trilogy and wants to keep the story going.
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It sounds like Best Buy is joining Netflix and getting out of the physical media business, leaving movie fans disappointed.
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Adam Sandler is getting animated with the Netflix original movie about a talking lizard, Leo.
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/Film's BJ Colangelo asked David Gordon Green about The Exorcist: Believer's ending, and it turns out that it was just one of many versions filmed.
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A24's Dicks: The Musical director tells us about adapting a stage play, the mystery of working with Megan Thee Stallion, creating a flying vagina, and more.
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Does Loki season 2 follow in the footsteps of so many MCU projects and feature a credits scene? We have the answer for you within this post! Beware of spoilers!
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The Exorcist: Believer is the kick-off of David Gordon Green's planned reboot trilogy for Universal. Here's what the ending says about its future.
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The view of the Saw films as mindless indulgences in images of torture is outdated. The Saw films are wise, honest, intriguing, and far more complex.
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The tenth installment in the Saw franchise has finally arrived, and this dark and twisty entry comes packed with an explosive ending that will leave you shaken.
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Gareth Edwards' The Creator asks powerful questions about the meaning of life, death, and power. Find out what happens in the finale with our ending explained.
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The Continental is the first John Wick spinoff to make it to streaming or the screen, and it expands upon the rich Wick lore in numerous, intriguing ways.
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Expend4bles is an action-packed thrill ride, but you may have missed a few of the finer details that wrapped up in the finale. That's why we're here to explain.
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The filmmakers behind Peacock's The Continental spoke about how the John Wick spin-off streaming series came to life and showed us some tricks of the trade.
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Both A Haunting in Venice and The Sixth Sense deal with ghosts, but there's a specific (spoilery) story beat that the films share, too.
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Kenneth Branagh and his mustache are back as Hercule Poirot in A Haunting in Venice. Let's get spoilery and talk about the film's ending.
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The Pope's Exorcist and The Nun II provide a special mixture of adventure, action, and terror typically only seen in Indiana Jones movies.
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The Nun 2's director Michael Chaves really had to sell the Conjuring creative team on the magazine rack scare. But the finished product blew them all away.
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Rod Serling hated one thing about The Twilight Zone on cable ... the mandatory commercials. Celebrities, they're just like us!
