Amy Woolsey

Contributing Writer

Amy Woolsey is a freelance writer who recently graduated from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Her writing has appeared in the Mason student newspaper, Fourth Estate, and Bitch Flicks, a feminist pop culture website. She blogs about film and TV at theauramusings.wordpress.com.

Looking captures the essence of American anxiety.

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Analysis

How Looking perfectly captured American anxiety

These three movies seem so different yet share one common theme.

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Analysis

How Spotlight, Room, and The Revenant confront the horrors of violence

Angelina Jolie Pitt stars in "By the Sea."

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Analysis

Angelina Jolie's By the Sea, and the triumphant return of the Hollywood melodrama

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Opinion

Why so many great actresses are ruthlessly cut out of big Hollywood movies

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Opinion

Amy Woolsey

How Looking perfectly captured American anxiety

How Spotlight, Room, and The Revenant confront the horrors of violence

Angelina Jolie's By the Sea, and the triumphant return of the Hollywood melodrama

Why so many great actresses are ruthlessly cut out of big Hollywood movies

The Han Solo movie proves that prequels are the worst