Archive for December, 2008

Kristen Stewart to play Joan Jett

Fresh from the success of “Twilight,” Kristen Stewart is set to portray Joan Jett in “The Runaways,” the rock ‘n’ roll biopic of the 1970s all-girl band. Video director Floria Sigismondi wrote the screenplay and is directing, while John and Art Linson and River Road Entertainment’s Bill Pohlad are producing. Jett will act as an [...]

Why the old school teen movies are still top of the class

Let’s take a journey back in time, back before YouTube, The OC, gross-out comedy, Judd Apatow and High School Musicals. It’s the mid-1980s, post- modern irony has yet to be invented and one man is creating the movies and soundtrack for a generation. Ferris Bueller is about to have a day off, Molly Ringwald looks [...]