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.

The Film Canon: The Last Unicorn (1982)

Some movies just stay with you. Admittedly, I didn’t rewatch The Last Unicorn over and over as I did with more mainstream animated classics like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. As you might imagine, Disney loomed large in…

Movie Review: Imperium

Throughout history, certain groups have been chosen for the degradation of serving as scapegoats. As such, group members are held up as examples of everything wrong with society, along with numerous examples of why they cannot be trusted under any…

Six things I learned from starting a film festival

Unlike other jobs, it’s kind of hard to stumble into founding a film festival, or directing one. It’s certainly not a job that I ever thought I would do. You could say it born from a lot of frustration. I’d…