A third-generation Los Angeles native, she is a member of the LA Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. You can find Christy’s writing at ChristyLemire.com. She’s also on Twitter @christylemire and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/christy.lemire2. Read her answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here.
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Republished Review: Let Him Go
MARY BETH MCANDREWS
Mary Beth McAndrews is currently a Digital and Communications Specialist for the Humane Rescue Alliance, Washington, D.C.’s only open access shelter. She creates video content that highlights adoptable animals, as well as HRA’s various community programs. She is also the senior editor for Much Ado About Cinema, a senior contributor for Nightmare on Film Street, and co-host of the Scarred For Life podcast. She has bylines online and in print for outlets such as Polygon, Bloody Disgusting, Bitch Mag, Daily Grindhouse, Grim Magazine, and Girls on Tops.
Previously, she worked for National Geographic and Discovery Communications in social and digital media. She received her Master’s of Arts degree from the University of Chicago in 2019. While there, she focused on cinema and media studies and gender studies. When she’s not writing, she’s scouring the Internet for the next weird horror movie to watch or bothering her cat, Zucchini.
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Featured Essay: When Catharsis Doesn’t Cut It
Republished Essays: On the Disempowerment of ‘Promising Young Woman’, Realizing You’re Just a Fantasy in ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’
NELL MINOW, Assistant Editor of RogerEbert.com
Nell Minow reviews movies and DVDs each week as The Movie Mom online and on radio stations across the US. She is the author of The Movie Mom’s Guide to Family Movies and 101 Must-See Movie Moments.
Her articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Kansas City Star, USA Today, Family Fun, Daughters, Parents, and three editions of The Practical Guide to Practically Everything. She has been profiled in the New York Times, the Economist, Forbes, the Chicago Tribune, Working Woman, CFO Magazine, the Ladies Home Journal, Washingtonian Magazine, and the Chicago Sun Times, and has appeared as The Movie Mom on CBS This Morning, Fox Morning News, NPR, and CNN. She is the founder of Miniver Press, a publishing company specializing in non-fiction ebooks and print books about the arts, music, sports, history, and culture. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Chicago Law School and her wonderful husband allows her to have a “10 best movie” list with 20 movies on it.
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