Author: Bill Watters

Bill Watters is a child of the late 70s- he walked into a theater to watch Star Wars, and emerged to become a lifelong fan of cinema and television. Spending nearly a decade as a projectionist, he fell into the Silicon Valley dot-com boom and became a codemonkey for a range of game companies. These days he's a frequent speaker, moderator, and panelist at pop-culture events and conventions, as well as a prolific film and television critic and genre news writer. He is also a member critic of both the San Francisco Film Critics Circle and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. In addition to his writing, he is also a photojournalist and can be found on Getty Images.

Already a front runner for this year’s award for the longest official movie title, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” throws us back into the pains of watching Americans in their natural state: generally horrible human beings. Now, there’s some light at the end of the tunnel as this film features nearly two individuals who are actually helpful and try to do the right thing. Unfortunately for the rest of the individuals who fall in front of the camera, they are featured in all of their unvarnished loathsomeness.…

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HBO is diving into the even deeper end of the allegorical genre fiction pool with its new series “Lovecraft Country.” A reference to the science fiction/horror/fantasy worlds of the celebrated author, H.P. Lovecraft, the series is a neo-anthology, with set central characters spanning the season, but moving from from story to story. The vibe is a mix of the racial by way of genre flavor of “Watchmen,” the thriller of “Get Out,” find the monsters of “The X-Files,” and the quest of the week like “Friday the 13th” or “Warehouse 13.” Set in the 1950s, the series follows Korean War…

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