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.

Movie Review: Manhattan Night

Manhattan Night’s a movie that’s really hard to write about…because it’s so unbearably forgettable. Even with notes, I’m having trouble thinking of an interesting way to say it’s quite simply, not very good. It isn’t one of the worst movies…

5 Mixed-Up Buddy Movies

Central intelligence is in theaters this week, and stars Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart are hoping to hit on the special kind of buddy comedy magic. They aren’t two old friends on trip, but the mixed up oddball action-comedy films. The approach…

Marlin the Helicopter Dad: Revisiting Finding Nemo

Just in time for father’s day, one of Hollywood’s ultimate dad movies will finally get its long awaited sequel. Finding Dory may switch protagonist but father and son, Marlin and Nemo, are back too. And while the two movies take…

Interview: The Cast and Creators of ‘BRAINDEAD’

You certainly can’t claim the husband and wife team of Robert and Michelle King are repeating themselves. After creating the beloved and critically acclaimed series “The Good Wife”, they are returning to CBS with one of the strangest shows on…

Cameron Frye’s Day Off

30 years ago today, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off hit theaters…and senior quote pages have never been the same. Seriously, how many times have high schoolers used “life moves pretty fast…” as their quote to live by? It might have been…

Interview: The Fits’ Writer-Director Anna Rose Holmer

One of the most talked about films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was the experimental coming-of-age dance film, The Fits. Focused on Toni (newcomer Royalty Hightower), a Cincinnati tomboy who joins the Q-Kidz dance team just before members begin…

Movie Review: ‘Warcraft’

Under my name for this review I suppose I should write “not a gamer,” because that seems to make a big difference. My limited knowledge of the game “World of Warcraft” comes primarily from South Park, admittedly an unkind portrayal of…