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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.

The Pod Generation Review – Sundance 2023

The Pod Generation Review – Sundance 2023

It is possible to make a futuristic film with an intriguing premise, great worldbuilding, and no real sense of its implications. Take Sophie Barthes’s Sundance feature The Pod Generation, which takes a far too safe road to what could await us in our seductive corporate future of convenience.

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M. Night Shyamalan is Back in the Worst Way in ‘Knock at the Cabin’

M. Night Shyamalan is Back in the Worst Way in ‘Knock at the Cabin’

Fairyland Review – Sundance 2023

Fairyland Review – Sundance 2023