EXCLUSIVE: Transformers: Age of Extinction star Nicola Peltz will co-direct with The Florida Project actress Bria Vinaite the independent feature drama Lola James.
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In recent years we’ve had an inspiring wave of films focusing on the realities of being a teenage girl.
Filmmakers are moving away from slightly camp teen comedies like Bring it On and Mean Girls and giving us flicks like Ladybird, Booksmart and Eighth Grade.
Netflix has now waded into the fray with Moxie, a bright and fun coming-of-age film that tackles the difficult subjects of being a teen girl, also directed by Mean Girls alum Amy Poehler.
Moxie follows the story of Vivian who is forced to
EXCLUSIVE: Transformers: Age of Extinction star Nicola Peltz will co-direct with The Florida Project actress Bria Vinaite the independent feature drama Lola James.
boatloads of wealthy Manhattanites during the pandemic, but even the skyline is getting the NYC treatment. A new 100-story luxury tower, the Waldorf Astoria Residences Miami, is now open for sales starting today — and, once complete (it breaks ground next year), it will become the highest residential tower south of Manhattan. The first Waldorf Astoria in Miami, the property will sit 1,049 feet above Biscayne Bay and offer sweeping views of both the water and the city below.
Serena Williams will not be playing in the Miami Open tournament, which starts up this week.
READ MORE: Andrea Bocelli teases another live show with daughter Virginia BocelliVirginia made her professional debut with her father during his Believe in Christmas concert last year. The live-streamed show took place at the Teatro Regio di Parma opera house.
Haley Bosselman editorAfter his handwritten cover letter went viral on LinkedIn, professional training academy and studio Exceptional Minds offered Ryan Lowry, who is on the autism spectrum, a scholarship to its summer animation program.“I am interested in a job in animation, or in IT,” Lowry wrote in the viral letter to his potential future employer. “I realize that someone like you will have to take a chance on me, I don’t learn like typical people do.
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIt’s a very different landscape this week than it was a year ago, just before the pandemic forced cinemas to close around the country.
Wine Country,” and she still can’t tell an engaging story with panache. A frustratingly bland young-adult feminist comedy without good jokes, “Moxie” is a cross between a hokey ’90s family sitcom and a vastly superior teen film, such as “Lady Bird.” Visually, the movie is not so much simple as it is routine. Emotionally, it’s catatonic.
READ MORE: Andrea Bocelli sings Hallelujah duet with daughter Virginia - WATCHIt's unclear from the photos if this was an attended concert on February 28 or if the Bocellis had it filmed, but hopefully, Andrea will make this clear in the near future. In the pictures, Virginia appears to be reading some sheet music before holding a microphone to sing, as she stands by her father with a guitar.
The Wedding Singer. Another snickered every time I spoke up in AP Calc. While mean girls absolutely existed within the halls of my tiny private school, it's clear to me that the popular narrative that boys bully with their fists while girls utilize psychological warfare is a Hollywood fallacy. In any classic centered on girlhood, there's a HBIC: Regina George.
hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey were both sporting an unconventional red-carpet look: a small cluster of hearts and stars, scrawled on their hands in black ink. These symbols, it transpires, are a secret sign of female solidarity in Moxie, a coming-of-age drama directed by Saturday Night Live veteran Poehler, about a feminist uprising at an American high school.
Amy Poehler was never a Riot Grrrl. She says she wasn’t cool enough to be part of the scene popularized by bands like Bikini Kill.
A school district in Virginia isn’t banning Dr. Seuss books for Reading Across America day, as previously reported. They’re just not emphasizing them after research into to the author’s past political cartoons.
Tomris Laffly It’s been 15 years since screenwriter Tina Fey brought peace to the teenage girl world with the groundbreaking “Mean Girls.” Now it’s her frequent creative partner Amy Poehler’s turn to stride the hallways of a contemporary high school, searching for harmony and justice among the heightened emotions and high-stakes conundrums of young adults.Marking the multi-hyphenate Poehler’s return to the director’s chair after her casually comforting “Wine Country,” the good-natured dramedy
Golden Globes ceremony was going to feel a heck of a lot different to how it usually does due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. But we're happily surprised to say, despite the much-needed safety precautions, not much has changed - be it Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's pitch-perfect monologue, the gorgeous virtual red carpet outfits, or the hilarious memes and Tweets that always emerge, the 2021 Golden Globes is shaping up to be as fantastic as ever.
In Virginia, they do not like green eggs and ham, or Dr. Seuss.
MILK, a biographical film about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person elected to public office in California.The film takes place in the 1970s and highlights Milk’s commitment to defeating Proposition 6, an initiative aimed at preventing gay and lesbian individuals from working in California’s public schools.