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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.

Review: Creature Commandos

Review: Creature Commandos

Here’s the thing about James Gunn’s new Max series Creature Commandos: it’s not Suicide Squad (2016). If audiences thought so, they might be expecting characters to show up who are likely above this show’s pay grade. This is Gunn’s trademark brand of bloody, action-packed, profanity-laced storytelling, with a group of superhuman types deemed subhuman enough to be forcibly recruited by military head honcho Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) to do bad things for semi-good reasons. But they involve keeping America in charge and making the world safer. What could go wrong?

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Rey Tang is creative beyond her labels

Rey Tang is creative beyond her labels

Review: Moana 2

Review: Moana 2