As we are warned in the opening number of MEAN GIRLS, this is a cautionary tale of lust, greed, and corruption. What we are not warned about is the seductive power of being the eponymous Queen Bee of the high school clique hierarchy. That is the real story, though screenwriter Tina Fey, who co-stars as… Read More »
MEAN GIRLS
Much has been made of late about the culture of adolescent girls, as in, the viciousness to the pecking order of the cool girls and the ones that will do anything to become one of them. Tina Fey, the first female head writer of Saturday Night Live has mined that territory, one that seems rife… Read More »
WALK HARD — THE DEWEY COX STORY
What SPINAL TAP did to and for the heavy metal documentary, WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY does to and for the musical bio-pic. With a fearless sense of silliness and a savage swipe at the conventions of the genre, it forges a brilliant parody that is relentlessly funny and musically acute. There is not… Read More »