Lesley Coffin
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Lesley Coffin is editor and founder of Movies, Film, Cinema. A writer with a masters degree from NYU’s Gallatin School in biographical studies and star theory. She wrote the biography on Lew Ayres (Lew Ayres: Hollywood’s Conscientious Objector) and Hitchcock’s Casting (Hitchcock’s Stars). Lesley currently freelances for a number of sites, including regular contributions to The Interrobang, Pink Pen, The Young Folks, and previously wrote for The Mary Sue and Filmoria.

‘American Gothic’ Interview with Creator Corinne Brinkerhoff and Star Juliet Rylance

This summer, CBS is fully embracing the concept of summer series with several high concepts, and yes, slightly campy, limited series’. Along with the second season of Zoo and the new horror comedy Braindead, American Gothic rounds out these quirky…

Interview: Carnage Park’s Mickey Keating and Ashley Bell

One of the most talked about midnight movies to play at both Sundance and SXSW this year would certainly have to be Mickey Keating’s latest film, Carnage Park. The brutal, angry homage could best be described as a 70s set…

James Patterson and James Wolk Discuss Season 2 of ‘Zoo’

One of the more bizarre projects on network television last year was the CBS summer series Zoo, based on the thriller by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. The series focuses on worldwide animal uprising, leading to what Patterson and the show’s…

TV Review: ‘Roadies’

If you’re one of the many people who were disappointed by the storytelling in the recently canceled Vinyl and still struggling (for good reason) Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll…the new series Roadies, also about the music industry, will not satisfy that itch either. As it is…

Everybody Loves Jeff Goldblum

One of the most interesting aspects of the marketing for this weekend’s big blockbuster movie, Independence Day: Resurgence has to be who the star of this sequel seems to have become. Without Will Smith’s return (Roland Emmerich choose to kill…

Movie Review: Free State of Jones

You can’t argue that the new movie Free State of Jones has been made in earnest, with plenty of good intentions and high ambitions. But all that can’t dismiss that the movie is structurally, narratively and ultimately ideologically, a complete mess…

10 Great TV Episodes About Fatherhood

Today we celebrate dad’s, including some of our favorite fictional ones. And while there have been plenty of dependable good fathers on TV, great stories about fatherhood can be rare. In the heyday of TV we saw plenty of perfect…