Andrea Thompson
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Andrea Thompson is a writer, editor, and film critic who is also the founder and director of the Film Girl Film Festival. She is a member of the Chicago Indie Critics and runs her own site, A Reel Of One's Own. She has no intention of becoming any less obsessed with cinema, comics, or nerdom in general.

Game Night Movie Review: A surprisingly fun comedy outing

Game Night is certainly better and more enjoyable than it has any right to be. I fully expected to walk into a movie where I had already experienced the best, funniest moments to be had, since I’d already seen the…

Star Trek: Discovery 1×15 Review: Season Finale Has Fun Moments, Few Surprises

Over the course of its first season, Star Trek: Discovery hasn’t exactly been upping the stakes; it’s more like the show’s constantly been sweeping them aside and replacing them with new ones, with one shocking revelation after another. The past…

Star Trek: Discovery 1×14 Review: Home Is Where The War Is

Star Trek: Discovery looks poised to start going back to basics, albeit in a very bonkers fashion, in the episode The War Without, the War Within. The crew may have made it back to their own universe, only to discover…

Mary and the Witch’s Flower Movie Review: Debut From Studio Ghibli Offshoot Is Less Than Enchanting

Mary and the Witch’s Flower may just be impossible to consider on its own terms. This is certainly no fault of the film itself, it’s simply the first feature from Studio Ponoc, the company founded by two veterans of the…

Star Trek: Discovery 1×12 Review: Relationships Become More Twisted In “Vaulting Ambition”

As if the stakes weren’t high enough for “Star Trek: Discovery,” the episode “Vaulting Ambition” decided to up them even more. Just as Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and and Lorca (Jason Isaacs) were feeling confident after aiding the rebels and possibly…

The Star Trek: Discovery Crew Keeps Friends Close And Enemies Closer In ‘The Wolf Inside’

Star Trek: Discovery proved it could still surprise us with The Wolf Inside, even if it did confirm a fan theory that became more and more obvious as the series went on. Hell, in the next few episodes, it just…

Proud Mary Review: Taraji P. Henson proves she’s an action heroine worth rooting for in mediocre film

The movie Proud Mary might not be anything special in itself, but its heroine sure as hell is, with Taraji P. Henson proving she can kick ass and take names like the best action hero the movie won’t let her…