I review current and older movies! I'd love for viewers input on what movies I should review next!
I’m Nick Tiffany! I’m an 18-year-old now senior at Cedarcrest High School in Duvall, Washington. I’m an actor, writer, and film enthusiast.
Since the second grade, I’ve been acting and singing whenever I had the chance. Theater and music has always played a large part in my life and they’re both things that I hold dear to myself. Growing up, I was also exposed to a lot of awesome movies that my dad loved. The combination of acting on stage and the possibility of acting for film has always been a main goal of mine. I guess you could say that I’ve grown up around actors and movies all my life.
This love of performing and performances has only grown throughout the years, as has my taste in what I like to see in plays and movies. In my spare time, I watch movies of every type. It was when I entered High School, when I knew that I absolutely loved movies. When I have nothing else, they’ve always been there. Comedy to make me laugh. Drama and Romance to make me cry. Action, Adventure, and Sci-Fi to make me relax and enjoy! No matter what I’ve been through, I’ve always had my go to movies that I would never shut up about to my friends.
My love of writing has fueled lots of screenplays and stories that spawn from my “creative” mind. As of a year ago, I’ve had the incredible opportunity to go to movie screenings with my good friend and fellow film critic, Mike Ward at shouldiseeit.net! These screenings not only served as an awesome time, but I also began associating with other critics who shared similar interests to myself. I’d always had a domain name registered, but never anything to put on it. Well, that changed when I decided that I’ve watched enough movies (and would come to watch many, many more) and had enough opinions on them to start reviewing them. For the last few months now, I’ve been reviewing new movies as they come out, and now have begun reviewing the movies that I missed in theaters as DVD Reviews. It’s been a lot of fun, but these reviews were only for 2013 movies. Nothing before 2012 or 2013 had been reviewed on my site.
That is, until Sarah Fetters at moviefreak.com approached me about a wonderful writing and reviewing opportunity that proves both educational and beneficial to my newfound reviewing career. Recently, Warner’s Brothers has released a slew of their classic movies in a collection billed as the “Warner Archive Collection”. My job, would be to watch a bunch of these classics and then review their newly reformatted versions. It’s an experience that will allow me to garner more knowledge about earlier films, but will also be one that will serve me a chance to observe some of the best films from an era that’s years and years apart from mine.
I’m ecstatic about this opportunity because it will be one that will help my writing and expose me to other great writers, and because it will give me a chance to experience some of the best films of years past, that I would have otherwise not been able to watch or even know about. I’m always one to criticize certain movie tropes and ideas that modern movies associate with, so this is going to be a fantastic chance to see where some of them came from. I’m also a huge believer in the preservation of film in a profoundly digital era, so to be able to view some of these films as they were when they were created is an amazing feat of technology and preservation that will immerse me in an almost-forgotten world of cinema.
I’ve already viewed a group of these newly formatted classics and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed each one of them. This opportunity doesn’t exist for a lot of people my age, so I’m very fortunate to be in the position I am and to have the support of other critics that I know. If anything, I’m hoping my reviews will open up more people to this new collection and will allow them the great opportunity to view classic movies in a time of big, underwhelming blockbusters’ that we live in today! Stay tuned for my reviews for this collection and for upcoming and recent movies as well!
Nick Tiffany
Editor of “Nick Tiffany’s Movie Reviews”
