Drawing inspiration from career experiences as a CNN correspondent, TV Academy chairman, creator of five produced primetime network TV series, and fast-food frycook, Bryce is the Editor-in-Chief of "Movie Smackdown." While he freely admits to having written the screenplay for the reviewer-savaged "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation," he hopes the fact that he also won the Writers Guild award a couple of years ago will cause you to cut him some slack. That, plus the fact that he has a new StudioCanal produced feature film, “The Last Battle,†shooting this summer in Europe about the end of World War II. He's also a member of the Directors Guild, Screen Actors Guild, and a past enthusiast of the Merry Marvel Marching Society. His new what-if book series, “Breakpoint,†just won the prestigious Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and has so far tackled JFK not being assassinated and The Beatles staying together.
The Smackdown In the last few years, the documentary world has given us a couple of projects about living in Antarctica that play out against a backdrop of global warming. “Encounters at the End of […]
We get mail. And some of you seem to really like the less-than-reverent way we treat the publicity stills that the studios put out to promote their films. Armed only with an iMac, some Comic […]
The Smackdown This may turn out to be our All-Time Heavyweight Smackdown — the equivalent of Ali versus Frasier — where both of the fighters are at the top of their games and both deserve […]
The Smackdown Only HBO had the courage to give us the behind-the-scenes truth about the two greatest contests affecting our civilization in recent memory: the battle to decide the election between George Bush and Al […]
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The Smackdown Not every film gets exhibited in a movie theater. And not every film that misses out on that opportunity is bad. Sometimes they can be good, or funny, or just plain awesome, and […]
We sure do appreciate the fact that AMC has made us the "Site of the Week." With all the new eyeballs checking us out, we offer up this retrospective of last year’s Oscar nominees and […]
The Smackdown At the turn of the century, Wonder Boys snuck into our cinematic consciousness through its sheer quirkiness and excellent casting and still gets a lot of DVD screenings in many homes. Later in […]
The Smackdown What does Barack Obama have in common with Robert Redford? Besides being a liberal Democrat? Maybe, by the end of the evening, Obama will have the chance to utter Redford’s famous line to […]
The Smackdown Here’s how they played it. Start with some Americana about major league sports in times of transition, give us some of the money men who just don’t understand the players’ true love of […]