For his day job, Andrew manages social media and writes for a nonprofit news outlet. When he isn’t perusing Facebook and Twitter, Andrew enjoys reviewing films, reading good books, writing about something other than politics, and playing ultimate Frisbee. He harbors wistful dreams of being a screenwriter, is glad to live in a big city, and hopes to travel more. A native Californian, Andrew earned his B.A. summa cum laude from The Master’s College. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Andrew has written 56 article(s) for RedFence Magazine.
Merely Marvelous by Andrew Collins Writer and director Joss Whedon is in his usual fine form at the helm of Avengers: Age of Ultron, but even his storytelling prowess can’t quite hold the film’s many strands together. Let’s start with an example. Early in the film Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olson), who begins the film as […]
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Finding a Way Home by Andrew Collins Josh Garrels’ music is marked by his deep and total immersion in the entire creative process–from the inception of the first melodies to production, performance and even distribution. All of the Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter’s seven albums are self-produced. His music dips into genres as diverse as hip-hop, electronic, […]
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Hope Runs Mad by Andrew Collins Mad Max: Fury Road is this year’s Edge of Tomorrow – the truly unique action film that dared to break the cycle of superhero and shoot-em-up flicks – except that it’s actually a really good movie. In both aesthetic and action it hits that wicked-sick, over-the-top sweet spot, taking us […]
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Machina ex Deus by Andrew Collins We live in a time when technology is advancing at a frightening rate – self driving cars, algorithms that write news stories, big data growing at exponential rates. And yet alongside such technological progress, racial tensions still linger to an ugly, frightening degree – as we’ve seen in Ferguson, the […]
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Thawing to the Music by Andrew Collins Spring, like any season, ought to have a great soundtrack, and we think New York indie pop outfit Panama Wedding brings just the right crisp, feel-good vibes to brush off the winter doldrums and set the tone for a fresh palate of springtime adventures. The band has only […]
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Rage Against the Dying by Andrew Collins “For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled,” writes Carl Sagan in his book The Pale Blue Dot. “Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians: ‘I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love […]
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Man, Scientist, Enigma by Andrew Collins Whenever the silver screen needs a brilliant, troubled, eccentric protagonist, Benedict Cumberbatch will be there to play the part — consider the hit BBC TV series Sherlock, last year’s The Fifth Estate, and now The Imitation Game. In this case he portrays Alan Turing, the World War II-era British mathematician tasked with […]
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Hitchcock Would be Proud by Andrew Collins Locke is the story of one man’s hour-long drive through hell. From the first frame to the last, the camera shows us only Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) in his car as he drives to London, trying to uncross the stars suddenly aligned against him. As a construction contractor, Locke has the […]
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Eius Paenitentiam by Andrew Collins The Drop (in theaters) is a dark look back into a world whose Godfather-esque heyday has passed yet continues to linger in New York City’s neighborhoods. Generations stack up upon each other and forge deep family ties. Cops and mobsters attend Mass every morning. Money changes hands unseen, according to a secret […]
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Star-Crossed Chemo by Andrew Collins The Fault in Our Stars explores the psyche of the teenage cancer patient. For those of us whose inner circle has not been visited by the Big C, encounters with cancer can tend toward the distant — a sentimental charity ad, a scripted request at the grocery store checkout. We […]
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