William Bibbiani
School
The UCLA School Of Film, Television, And Digital Media
Expertise
Classic Cinema, Cult Film, Horror
- William Bibbiani is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA).
- He's been declared the "Movie Trivia Champion of the World" at the Movie Trivia Schmoedown on three separate occasions, and defended his title four times.
- You can find his commentary tracks on Blu-rays, for the films Very Bad Things and Brewster's Millions.
Experience
William Bibbiani has been writing film and television criticism professionally for over nearly 15 years, for publications like TheWrap, IGN, Bloody Disgusting, Blumhouse, and Fangoria. As the co-host of The B-Movies Podcast and The Critically Acclaimed Network, he has produced and co-hosted thousands of podcasts dedicated to film criticism, film history, in-depth filmmaker interviews, cult film and television, and Star Trek. He has hosted midnight screenings and live filmmaker interviews, and also performed cameos on the TV series American Dad.
Education
William Bibbiani is a graduate of the UCLA School of Film, Television, and Digital Media, with a degree in screenwriting.
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Stories By William Bibbiani
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Do any of the characters on Star Trek celebrate Christmas? Is Christmas still a thing in the future Gene Roddenberry created? Let's dive in.
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The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling once wrote a film with the same premise as Speed on an airplane, but it was banned almost immediately after it aired.
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The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling's TV movie adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Carol for Another Christmas, is bitter stuff, even for him.
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Jason Alexander is famous for his comedic turn on Seinfeld, but his appearance on The Twilight Zone is worth a closer look.
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In the nearly 100 year history of the Academy Awards, a lot of Best Picture winners have been remade, or sequelized, but only a few have had their own TV shows.
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The UPN reboot of The Twilight Zone was full of hits and misses, but one episode featuring Jessica Simpson truly stands out from the pack.
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Eileen is one of the twistiest, most nihilistic films of the year, one that will keep you guessing long after its shocking ending has passed.
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Does anyone remember The Twilight Zone revival episode where Katherine Heigl went back in time to try and kill baby Hitler?
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/Film spoke with Japanese director Makoto Shinkai about Suzume, why that chair only has three legs, an Easter egg nodding to Studio Ghibli, and much more.
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While Wish was supposed to celebrate 100 years of Disney, the animated film effectively denounces what the corporation has accomplished in that century.
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Avengers: Endgame is way more financially successful than The Marvels, but at least the new film meaningfully addresses the underlying concerns of its villain.
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The name Alan Smithee has an ignominious significance in Hollywood, though that hasn't stopped the namesake from getting an award for a Twilight Zone episode.
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Rod Serling correctly envisioned that a commercial work of art also had the power to inform and subvert, and he did just that with The Twilight Zone.
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The Twilight Zone has been revived, made into movies, books, and more. But there's likely a Twilight Zone movie you've never heard of - but should.
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Red Sonja deserves to wear the crown of Marvels first live-action theatrical feature, even if that means Howard the Duck loses the crown.
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Rod Serling pulled no punches on one episode of The Twilight Zone that showed how insidious studio interference in true artwork can be.
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Wes Craven's episode of the Twilight Zone, which kicked off the '80s reboot, is one for the history books, featuring Bruce Willis in a twisted dual performance.
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The Twilight Zone was sold not on the strength of its pilot, but on an unlikely episode of an anthology series anchored by a television legend.
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The various Twilight Zone reboots don't get enough credit, least of all for incredible segments like William Friedkin's 1985 episode Nightcrawlers.
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Horror maestro Stephen King's short story Gramma was adapted by Harlan Ellison for one of The Twilight Zone's scarier episodes.
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The Twilight Zone is filled with over 100 terrifying tales, and one of the scariest of them all was given a sequel time has all but forgotten.
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The 'He's Alive' episode of The Twilight Zone starring Dennis Hopper is tragically just as relevant today as it was 60 years ago.
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The animated comedy series Star Trek: Lower Decks has complete freedom to mess with Star Trek canon however it deems fit ... except when it doesn't.
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Steven Spielberg may be known for his TV film breakout Duel, but it was Rod Serling of The Twilight Zone that gave him his first gig in TV.
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The Twilight Zone was meta before adding meta-textual elements to film and TV even became popular. In one episode, Rod Serling's mysterious host even dies.
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Rod Serling had a bone to pick with the Western TV genre, so he satirized it in an episode of The Twilight Zone.
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Of course, Rod Serling's favorite episode of The Twilight Zone is the one with the cruelest ending in the show's entire run.