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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.

Need To Bum Yourself Out? Revisit Repo Men

Need To Bum Yourself Out? Revisit Repo Men

Hope? Never heard of it, at least not in the 2010 dystopian sci-fi action movie Repo Men. In its high-tech, near-future world where artificial organs can be “repossessed” by their corporate creators, the whole system is out of order, and the actions of its leads don’t amount to much more than a hill of beans. The real horror is that neither the movie’s world nor the toxic love story at its twisted heart feels all that exaggerated anymore.

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One of the Most Faithful Comic Book Adaptations Ever Brought Pulp Back to the Big Screen

One of the Most Faithful Comic Book Adaptations Ever Brought Pulp Back to the Big Screen

An Adventure Story For A Post-Human World

An Adventure Story For A Post-Human World