Fresh Ambition: A Review of ‘Sing Street’
There’s an unkind formula at play in a fair few indie movies. That formula is brash, cynical, and...
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Alison Lanier
Alison Lanier is a Boston-based writer and editor currently working in communications at MIT. A graduate of Wellesley College, she is part of the editorial team at Mortar Magazine and AGNI as well as at Atticus Review. Her fiction, poetry, reviews, articles, and essays have appeared in Ms. Magazine Online, Bust, The Establishment, and elsewhere.
Alison Lanier is a Boston-based writer and editor currently working in communications at MIT. A graduate of Wellesley College, she is part of the editorial team at Mortar Magazine and AGNI as well as at Atticus Review. Her fiction, poetry, reviews, articles, and essays have appeared in Ms. Magazine Online, Bust, The Establishment, and elsewhere.
Posts by Alison Lanier
The Paradox of a Woman’s Sport
When I was growing up, the sport on the living room TV was tennis. Tennis, in Boston during the...
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The Horror of the Witch: Dissecting the Success of an Indie Thriller
The Witch’s success arises from the fact that it doesn’t make anything up. Devils walk the earth....
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Getting Lost at the Oscars
I’ve made a habit of getting lost, taking afternoon trips out of Boston to Portsmouth or Plymouth,...
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A Hilarious Myth of Hollywood: the Coen Brothers’ Hail, Caesar!
Hail, Caesar! is the kind of movie critics like to tell audiences to “buckle up” for. It’s...
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