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.

TV Reviews
The Mindy Project 5×03 Review: “Mindy’s Best Friend”

Apologizes for the lateness, but this week’s The Mindy Project had to be watched a day late. Unfortunately this season’s starting to feel a little “off” and harder and harder to get through. I wasn’t a huge fan of the…

TV Reviews
The Mindy Project 5×12 Review: “Mindy Lahiri is a White Man”

This week The Mindy Project mined another alternative universe story-line (they also did a Groundhog Day episode in February), this time with more of a political point-of-view. Mindy switches bodies with a white man (played by Ryan Hansen) to explore…

Film
Movie Review: My Scientology Movie

There is no denying that Scientology’s mysterious influence on Hollywood is one of the more fascinating aspects of an already interesting subject. The “religion” was created by a sci-fi writer, who used the power of cinema to recruit new members…

TV Reviews
The Mindy Project 5×11 Review: “Dibs”

Another day, another McDonald’s lunch for Mindy. As someone who also lives in New York City, I’m frequently shocked by Mindy’s love of McDonalds. I love junk food too, but I truly can’t remember the last time I went into…

TV Reviews
TV Review: The Mindy Project 5×10 “Take My Ex-Wife”

One of the biggest issues The Mindy Project has had over the past few seasons has been the limited opportunity it’s had to include supporting characters into real storylines. If not dating Mindy, she’s usually talking to the staff about…

Review
TV Review: The Mindy Project 5×09 “The Bat Mitzvah”

As I mentioned last week, it’s nice that The Mindy Project has such a large recurring cast to pull from who can just stop by when the episode calls for it. That’s very much the case with tonight’s episode “Bat…

Television
Episode Review: The Mindy Project “Hot Mess Time Machine”

It feels especially appropriate that The Mindy Project, a show which unapologetically structured itself as a TV rom-com, would return to TV (well, Hulu) on Valentine’s Day by way of Groundhog Day. Yep, last season Mindy threw a grenade at…