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.
Of Heroes and Talking Trees by Andrew Collins Edge of Tomorrow Edge of Tomorrow — the latest Tom Cruise-as-demigod vehicle — is one of those films that does not have a single original element but manages to combine familiar tropes in entertaining fashion. The pieces are Groundhog Day (repeating day), Ender’s Game (humans vs. hive-mind aliens), […]
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O Captain, My Rom-com by Andrew Collins The flirting begins with a word game — each player tries to think of a word with more syllables than the last. Jack Marcus (Clive Owen), a top-notch prep school English teacher, has the obvious advantage, but Dina Delsanto (Juliette Binoche) is a stubborn New York art instructor. […]
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Captain America: 21st Century Edition by Andrew Collins For a film with hardly a single original moment, Captain America: The Winter Soldier performs surprisingly well. Wrap Bourne, Minority Report, and Olympus Has Fallen into the Marvel universe and you might get something like this film. Chris Evans and the S.H.I.E.L.D. gang (Samuel Jackson’s Nick Fury and […]
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English Class as It’s Meant to Be by Andrew Collins My high school English class was a waste of time at best — destructive to the human spirit at worst. I suspect I am not alone. These classes foist brilliant literature on kids before they’ve grown mature enough to enjoy it, and it turns them […]
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Gladwell Gets Spiritual by Andrew Collins “The Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” So opens Malcolm Gladwell’s newest book, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. The quote comes from the biblical account of the story of David, who […]
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The Glorious Terror of Space by Andrew Collins Director Alfonso Cuarón’s IMDB biography says that he has always wanted to be two things: a director and an astronaut. No surprise, then, that he made Gravity. The film tells the survival story of astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) and medical engineer Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) after […]
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No Blameless Vestals Here by Andrew Collins Before there was Inception, there was . . . a Jim Carrey rom-com? Something like that. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a 2004 project from director Michel Gondry, pushes the bounds of verisimilitude at only one point — in the world of the film, mind-wiping technology exists […]
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“Welcome to Washington” by Andrew Collins House of Cards, the (triple) Emmy Award winning political drama created exclusively for Netflix, taps into our darkest fascinations and confirms our worst fears about the elite political scene in American politics. It left me sickened, but unable to turn away as a plethora of multifaceted characters maneuvered and masqueraded […]
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Clever Moments, Worn-out Tropes by Andrew Collins At film number three, the Iron Man series is starting to feel like the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. The first film had a solid story and was wildly entertaining thanks to a brilliant central character — Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow. The following films? Not so much, […]
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. . . Even if You Aren’t Time-Traveling. by Andrew Collins We can immediately say one thing about Safety Not Guaranteed: it knows how to set a hook. The classified ad that kicks this story into motion reads: “WANTED: Someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You’ll get paid after […]
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