Tag: Teen Spirit
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‘The Idol’ Fails To Top This Underrated Movie’s Look at Teen Stardom
There’s no bigger sign that television is in a very different state than it was only a few weeks ago than HBO airing the series finales of Succession and Barry, and then following it up with The Idol the next week. After two of the most highly acclaimed shows of their generation reached their conclusions,…
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Samuel L. Jackson to Star in Chris Rock’s ‘Saw’ Reboot
Samuel L. Jackson has joined Chris Rock in Lionsgate’s upcoming “Saw” reboot.Production has officially begun on the film, in which Rock will play a police detective investigating a series of grizzly crimes. Jackson will portray Rock’s father. Max Minghella, who stars in Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and recently directed “Teen Spirit,” also joins the cast…
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How Max Minghella’s Love Of Robyn Sparked His Directorial Debut ‘Teen Spirit’ [Interview]
The trend of the past year hasn’t been horror movies, R-rated comedies or period romances. No, there has been a unique fascination with the rise and fall of the female pop star and, in some cases, having well-known actresses demonstrate their singing skills. Bradley Cooper’s “A Star is Born” with Lady Gaga, Brady Corbet’s “Vox…
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‘Teen Spirit’ Review: Max Minghella’s Directorial Debut Lacks Pop [Tiff]
If A Star is Born was the folk song of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, a familiar tune brilliantly rendered by cover artist Bradley Cooper, then Teen Spirit was its pop song. The film is derivative, calibrated to appeal to a lowest-common-denominator audience … and yet admittedly catchy, even if it’s immediately recognizable as…
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Max Minghella’s Directorial Debut ‘Teen Spirit’ Falls Flat Despite A Strong Elle Fanning Performance [Tiff Review]
Music competition shows have been a TV mainstay in America ever since the Brits imported “American Idol” in the early-2000s, which in turn kickstarted a slew of copycats, including NBC’s incredibly popular “The Voice.” Eventually, movies based on the competitive nature of these shows (“American Dreamz” and “Pitch Perfect“) were made, creating a genre which,…
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Toronto Film Review: Elle Fanning in ‘Teen Spirit’
“Teen Spirit” comes on like a very now movie about pop music and those who inject it like an adrenalized sugar-high dream. (I’m one of them.) Violet (Elle Fanning), a 17-year-old British girl who lives with her Polish immigrant mother (Agnieszka Grochowska) on a farm on the Isle of Wight, is in thrall to the…
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‘Teen Spirit’ Teaser Trailer Has Elle Fanning as an Aspiring Pop Star
Max Minghella has been doing his part to disturb audiences with the all-too-familiar horrors of Gilead as Nick on The Handmaid’s Tale, but the actor is making his writing-directing debut at the Toronto International Film Festival this year with Teen Spirit. Starring Elle Fanning as a teenage singer named Violet, the film follows the ambitious…