Whip It!

Movie Jail: This week’s defendant is…Drew Barrymore!

Posted 11 years ago

This is Movie Jail, a unique maximum security prison that houses some of the worst writers, directors, actors and producers from Hollywood and beyond. Their crimes? The offenses vary from convict to convict but most of these inmates have contributed...

Review: Whip It

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Bliss Cavendar is living her postal worker mother’s dream. She is doing a pageant here and a pageant there, but none of it seems to fit who she really is. But when Bliss discovers a group of girls in...

Review: Whip It (TIFF)

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Ellen Page is Bliss, a teenage beauty queen, who rebels against her pageant loving mother (Marcia Gay Harden), to take up competitive roller derby. She joins a roller crew run by the hard living Smashley Simpson (Drew Barrymore), and...

Shawkat is Whipped

Posted 17 years ago

I am going to go out on a ledge here, from which I may fall and hurt myself in bad ways, but with Alia Shawkat joining the cast of Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut WHIP IT!, I am going to declare...