Tag: Bring It On
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‘Bring It On: Cheer or Die’ Review: Intriguing Concept Doesn’t Follow Through
Released in 2000, Bring It On helped define teen movies for a generation, leading a legion of high schoolers to sign up for their own cheerleading teams. The film tells a classic underdog story in which one dedicated cheerleading team works hard until they are rewarded with the championship, defeating their mean-spirited rivals in the…
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School Spirit: Every ‘Bring it On’ Movie, Ranked According To Rotten Tomatoes
These movies were the epitome of end-of-summer slumber parties. The Bring It On franchise invigorated the fictional cheerleading genre by demonstrating that the sport was more than just football games and pom poms. Before the world was introduced to the Navarro and Trinity Valley rivalry from Netflix’s docuseries Cheer, there were the Rancho Carne Toros…
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The Morning Watch: ‘Bring It On’ 20th Anniversary Virtual Reunion, The Many Faces of ‘Lucifer’ & More
The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch a Bring It On 20th anniversary virtual…
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‘Bring It On’ Turns 20: Filmmakers Reflect on Making the Cheerleading Classic and Spotlighting ‘Cultural Theft’
Twenty years after “Bring It On” debuted, “Brr it’s cold in here” and “This is not a democracy, it’s a cheerocracy” have shown no signs of being shunted aside from the cultural lexicon.But in the late ’90s when screenwriter Jessica Bendinger shopped her lengthy 120-page script around Hollywood, every major studio passed on making a…
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Maluma, Elle Fanning, ‘Outer Banks’ Cast Shine on Variety’s ‘Power of Young Hollywood’ Special
Megan Thee Stallion, Maluma and Shira Haas were among the artists featured in Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood virtual event, which premiered Thursday, Aug. 6 at 6 p.m. Pt/9 p.m. Et on Facebook. The program partnered with Facebook to benefit Rock the Vote and encouraged fans to register to vote in the 2020 presidential election.The…