She has previously reviewed films for several publications, including LA Weekly, The New York Times, Variety, and The Washington Post.

[4] During her studies at OC, Nicholson interned at LA Weekly, and wrote freelance theater reviews for the paper for the subsequent nine years.

[4] Nicholson then relocated to Los Angeles where she enrolled into the University of Southern California (USC), and graduated with a Masters in Professional Writing in 2008.

Meanwhile, she also freelanced for the Los Angeles Times, Movieline, Movies.com, Fandango and IndieWire, and was the film editor at Inland Empire Weekly from 2006 to 2010.

[4] In July 2013, Nicholson was hired as a full-time film critic for LA Weekly, a position she considered her dream job.

She also won the Best Critic Award in Broadcast or Print for her submitted reviews of American Sniper (2014) and Fifty Shades of Grey and Focus (both released in 2015).

"[3] She was given two and a half months to write the book, in which she watched ten of Cruise's films and analyzed them to determine his growth as an actor.

In October 2016, due to a sexual assault allegation made against Faraci, Nicholson and Earwolf mutually agreed to place the podcast on an indefinite hiatus.