Andrew Emerson

Andrew Emerson is a University of Chicago student. His high school English teacher once asked him to read a batch of Roger Ebert’s reviews for class, and he’s been fixated on the idea of writing about movies ever since. You can follow his attempts to pursue this obsession at http://filmwatcher.net/.

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