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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.

“In the Mood for Love” is a masterclass in cinematic yearning

“In the Mood for Love” is a masterclass in cinematic yearning

By Andrea Thompson

If repression is the ultimate aphrodisiac, there are few films that make such a case for it than Wong Kar-wai’s sumptuous 2000 masterpiece In the Mood for Love, one of the most passionate, delicately rendered on-screen odes to yearning cinema has ever produced.

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Marvel is up to their old tricks in the best way in new series 'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier'