Ryan Coleman
Location
East Sandwich, MA
School
University Of Puget Sound
University Of Southern California
Expertise
Arthouse Cinema, Made-For-TV Movies, The Studio-Era Woman's Film
- Ryan is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
- Ryan was an inaugural member of Unifrance's Cannes Critics Lab in 2022, where he wrote about films by directors like Albert Serra, Claire Denis, Cristian Mungiu, and Marie Kreutzer.
- In 2021, Ryan completed a thesis on the Lifetime Network's original made-for-TV domestic thrillers, specifically as they relate to the history of "movie of the week"-style film production, the woman's film of the studio era, and exploitation cinema of the New Hollywood era.
Experience
Since 2017, Ryan has been writing long-form criticism on film, literature, and culture more broadly, with essays, features, profiles, and reviews in publications like the LA Review of Books, the Hollywood Reporter, Little White Lies, Jacobin, and Lit Hub. In addition to working as an Evening News Editor at /Film, Ryan freelances criticism at a variety of outlets and writes SEO for a London-based agency. He's particularly interested in the pockets and corners of the film conversation that don't get much play — made-for-TV movies, unreleased films, cinema from underdeveloped nations, studio-era b movies, and the like. Ryan misses when romantic comedies had $25 million budgets.
Education
Ryan has a Bachelor's degree in English Literature from the University of Puget Sound and a Master's degree in Specialized Journalism (The Arts) From USC Annenberg.
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Stories By Ryan Coleman
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A lesser-known Amy Adams appeared on both Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the same year, and gave a predictably fantastic pair of performances.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents borrowed from Hitch's The Trouble With Harry, a comedy that, after its failure, the director worried would ruin his maiden TV voyage.
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The original Frasier series had a panoply of amazing guest stars, but few were funnier than Rachel Dratch, who stole her episode with only a few lines.
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We were graced by the indelible presence of Peri Gilpin on the last episode of the Frasier revival's first season, which clarified just what isn't working.
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Jodie Foster and Kali Reis search for a murder in the darkness of Alaskan winter in the new trailer for True Detective: Night Country.
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Alan Ritchson is back for more action and more glory in this second season clip from Reacher, which promises more of the same thrills.
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Star Trek: Discovery is back for one last adventure: catch the latest clip from the fifth and final season here, with Book and Michael facing off against evil.
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McG's The Babysitter franchise just got an exciting new update, so take out your Samara Weaving Supremacy signs and start waving.
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Disney's Wish is the latest in a long line of box office flops. Can the House of Mouse ever truly recover, and what exactly is going on?
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The Frasier reboot has come to an ingenious conclusion on a debate Frasier and Niles would have probably raged over: who is the smartest Crane of all?
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The Saw franchise is known for its gruesome traps, but the creators of Saw X wanted to return to the origins of the franchise and focus on practical effects.
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Madame Web is finally ready to sling into theaters. The first trailer for the Spider-Man spinoff film gives us a look at Dakota Johnson's Cassandra Webb.
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Millie Bobby Brown has arrived in the trailer for her latest Netflix film, Damsel, which promises an exciting twist on the fairy tale damsel in distress story.
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The Frasier revival's writers just made a very excellent decision by bringing on one of the modern sitcom's most electric and hilarious stars.
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The Niles and Daphne dynamic of the original Frasier series can't be topped, but it looks like the new revival is going to try - could it actually work out?
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There is an intimate degree of separation between Bones and the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, one that you'll recognize instantly when you hear it.
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Fans aren't wild about Niles and Daphne's son, David, in the new Frasier revival. But they still love David Hyde Pierce and Jane Leeves, so where are they?
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer's secret to success was its restraint. But sometimes, as in the case of this Giles-centric episode, more was preferable to less.
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Roar Uthaug's 2022 monster movie Troll broke Netflix records, and the streamer has announced that Troll 2 is on the way to do some more smashing.
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The Hell House franchise is back with its fourth entry, The Carmichael Manor, whose mileage may vary depending on how big a Hell House head you are.
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Who exactly is Steve Raglan? And what does he have to do with William Afton? Let's dive into Matthew Lillard's mysterious character in Five Nights at Freddy's.
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The Twilight Zone was a pioneering series, and one episode from the first season perfectly encapsulates how important technical craft was to its success.
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The Fargo series has made many references to the Coen brothers film, but according to series creator Noah Hawley, the biggest homage is still yet to come.
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David Fincher is back with another shadow-drenched thriller in the form of The Killer. Watch Michael Fassbender as a hitman in the all new trailer now.
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Frasier's original run saw an enormous and varied amount of guest stars, and we've hand-picked the very best that we want to see return for Paramount's reboot.
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Most of Seinfeld is drawn from real life, but Larry David's inspiration for the fan-favorite character Kramer almost cost him that name.
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AMC's surprise hit show Interview With The Vampire is returning for a bloodsucking season 2. Here's everything we know about the darkly romantic series.