Annie Banks is a professional entertainment journalist from Chicago, Illinois, and joined The Direct in 2025. She holds degrees in journalism and marketing and has been incredibly fortunate to watch her career path collide with her passions. Throughout her 7+ years of entertainment journalism experience, Annie has fervently written about movies, television shows, anime, manga, K-Pop, comics and video games. To this day, she still proudly retains her title as a Rotten Tomatoes-approved Tomatometer critic: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/annie-banks/movies. Annie's work can also be found on The Mary Sue, MovieWeb, Collider, and CBR.
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