Tag: Amy Poehler
Inside Out As Anti-San Francisco Movie
With the imminent release of Inside Out 2, revisiting the original film is only natural. As it is to note that, long before the blatant [Read More…]
Gen Z Is to Cady Heron as Millennials Are to Regina George, Or: Does Mean Girls 2024 Make Gen Z the New Queen Bee? Hardly.
For those who applaud it, any contempt expressed for the latest iteration of Mean Girls is likely to be met with the ageist rebuke of [Read More…]
Bikini Kill Gets Passed Down to a New Generation in Moxie
A girl runs through the woods in a panicked frenzy. It’s the stuff of nightmares (and also something out of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)–and that’s [Read More…]
Elizabeth Hurley’s Mom Is the New Mrs. George
Even though it is, by now, in this epoch called “Thirst Trap,” the norm that daughters wield their mothers for the purpose of heightening their [Read More…]
Life Is Like A Box of Timelines, You Never Know Which One You’re Gonna Get: Russian Doll
No coincidence that Russian Doll is just in time for Groundhog Day, the Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland-created series plays into all of [Read More…]
More Than Sororal Relationships, Sisters Addresses Coming to Terms With Middle Age
“We did it you guys. We stopped time.” So marvels Kelly (Rachel Dratch), a former high school classmate of illustrious Ellis sisters Kate (Tina Fey) [Read More…]
The Camp Obsession That Wouldn’t Die: Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
After Wet Hot American Summer: The First Day of Camp premiered on Netflix on July 31, 2015, one perhaps wrongly assumed this would be the [Read More…]
Tina Fey & Amy Poehler Say What No One Wants To With Meet Your Second Wife!
Perhaps more eventful than the release of the Tina Fey/Amy Poehler comedy Sisters is the promotion surrounding it. From a sketch with Broad City girls [Read More…]
Sisters Helping Sisters Uses Humor To Highlight A Sad Truth: Don’t Nobody Wanna See More Than Two Women Onscreen At Once
A promotional video called Sisters Helping Sisters created in honor of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s upcoming film, Sisters, incorporates Poehler acolytes Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson [Read More…]
The Wet Hot American Summer Saga
If someone had told USA Films, the distributor of Wet Hot American Summer, that the movie would redeem itself tenfold and go on to have [Read More…]