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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: Gaslighting Is Institutional in Mélanie Laurent’s The Mad Women’s Ball

Review: Gaslighting Is Institutional in Mélanie Laurent’s The Mad Women’s Ball

Credit to Mélanie Laurent, who is continuing her directing career with The Mad Women’s Ball, because she knows when she should hold back. What she’s saying isn’t exactly new, since women in fiction with mental illness are typically used to hold a mirror up to society and its shortcomings, and just what we consider insanity.

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'Dear Evan Hansen' is Broadway gone so very wrong

'Dear Evan Hansen' is Broadway gone so very wrong

Review: Dan Stevens Is an Android Dreamboat in I’m Your Man

Review: Dan Stevens Is an Android Dreamboat in I’m Your Man