Magnolia Pictures Joan Jett got her start by hanging out at the Sunset Strip nightclub Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco, where she plunged into the glam-rock scene. In retrospect, it’s hard to believe they let in teenagers like 14-year-old Joan. As with Manhattan’s Studio 54, every manner of vice was on offer, but she emerged relatively […]
Kathy Fennessy
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Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s Mistress America Is Cleverly Self-Critical
MISTRESS AMERICA “Let’s move to Portland.” Leaving the comfort and familiarity of home for college is scary enough, but entering the pitiless maw of New York City makes it doubly so. In his third collaboration with writer/actress/lady love Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach serves up a scenario in which a naive freshman has a secret weapon: […]
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Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s Mistress America Is Cleverly Self-Critical
A Story of Wins, Losses, Hurt Feelings, and Pseudo-Sisters
A story of wins, losses, hurt feelings, and pseudo-sisters.
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Tales from the Dark Side
The Black Comic Groove of The Skeleton Twins
Kristen Wiig goes to the dark side in The Skeleton Twins.