Brian Work

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Writer, director, movie lover, and high school theatre teacher. My debut YA fantasy novel, Into The Black, is out now.

Favorite films

  • Moulin Rouge!
  • Begin Again
  • Casablanca
  • tick, tick... BOOM!

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  • Despicable Me 4

    ★★★

  • Lost in Translation

    ★★★★

  • Reign of Fire

    ★★★½

  • The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage!

    ★★★★½

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  • Zombieland

    Zombieland

    ★★★★★

    I was a theatre student in Valdosta, GA when this movie was being filmed, and the theme park scenes were shot at Wild Adventures, just down the road from us. A handful of theatre students dropped productions to be extras in this movie, and I didn't because I was so sure the whole movie was a reality show follow up to Invasion Iowa (by the same writers), where they tricked a small town into making a fake movie with William…

  • Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire

    Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire

    ★★½

    I can practically see these actors standing on an empty soundstage surrounded by greenscreens, reminding themselves that the paycheck is worth it.

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  • Retardead

    Retardead

    ½

    I went into this with the lowest of possible expectations, and even those weren't met.

  • The Man with Rain in His Shoes

    The Man with Rain in His Shoes

    ★★★★

    I was pleasantly surprised by this. I was completely expecting the story to go a certain way, and it took the opposite route.