Amy Nicholson

Like the strivers of the Studio Club, Amy Nicholson came to Hollywood for the movies. She is the film critic of the Los Angeles Times and cohost of the podcast Unspooled, as well as an on-air radio voice for LAist and KCRW. Raised in San Antonio, Texas, Amy earned a double BA in film studies and anthropology from the University of Oklahoma and a Masters in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California. The former chief critic for the L.A. Weekly and MTV News, her other credits include The New York Times, The Washington Post, Variety, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian, plus the podcast miniseries Quentin Tarantino Presents, Halloween Unmasked, and The Canon. Her first book was Tom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor. A Lakers fan, she is a permanent citizen of Los Angeles where her sugar cookies won the blue ribbon at the Los Angeles County Fair.