Alise is an entertainment writer and film critic out of West Virginia. Always on the search for a good story, Alise connects film and television to her outlook on the world, trying to find ways to find meaning in the media that she consumes.

Alise has been writing pretty much her whole life. She started blogging back when that was a thing, and has continued writing regularly through most of adulthood. She discovered film criticism over the pandemic when she realized just how much we as a society rely on entertainment to get us through difficult times.

Alise is a member of the Independent Film Critics of America, the International Film Society Critics Association, the Online Film and Television Association, the Online Female Film Critics Association, and GALECA. She writes regularly for The Dominion Post in Morgantown and at her Substack, MacGuffin or Meaning.