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Hi.

Welcome to my site! My name is Andrea Thompson, and I’m a writer, editor, and film critic who is a member of the Chicago Indie Critics and also the founder and director of the Film Girl Film Festival, which you can find more info about at filmgirlfilm.com! I have no intention of becoming any less obsessed with cinema, comics, or nerdom in general.

They Don’t Make ‘Em Much Stranger Than ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’

They Don’t Make ‘Em Much Stranger Than ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’

It’s another biopic about an iconic musical star, and we have a problem. Certain tropes demand to be met, and what if the star in question simply didn’t have the usual milestones in his life – the drug abuse, the parental estrangement, the stint in rehab, etc.? In this case, you have the star in question write something truly deranged and find a lead who’s willing to be Weird. Literally.

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Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave refuses to abandon noir trappings

Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave refuses to abandon noir trappings

A Title Becomes a Self-fulling Prophecy in the Vicioiusly Regressive Comedy ‘The End of Sex’

A Title Becomes a Self-fulling Prophecy in the Vicioiusly Regressive Comedy ‘The End of Sex’