Given the high abundance of adolescent pseudo-intellectual gobbledegook that seeps from the jaws of Ellen Page’s Juno in the Oscar-winning movie of the same name, it’s hard to view her with anything but sheer barbaric contempt.
While she hardly shows much range beyond indie-grunge smarty-pants, at least in Whip It she appears likeable. Well, likeable in as much as we didn’t want to choke her on her obvious collection of Dawson’s Creek spin-off novellas.
Whip It, while still neck high in offbeat comedy and teen ideals, proves to beat Juno at its heart, making for a more relatable coming-of-age story. Oh, and features more girl power than one Geri Halliwell’s padded bras from the ‘90s.
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Trends – they’re really cyclical. A couple of years ago, were you to go for a wander wearing a beret and red trousers that perfectly contoured the exact definition of your groin, everyone would think that you were a weirdo. Not now though. You’d be just another guy in beret and jeans, having a bit of a stroll.
And, of course, the clever ones know to hang onto these garments, even when they no longer feature on the cutting edge. They shall rise again. They always do. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but one day… and for a bit of the rest of your life.
Anyway, the point being that – thanks to a new Drew Barrymore film – roller skating looks all set to soar again, as it once did in the 1970s and 1980s. Hence, we thought it high time to leap directly onto the bandwagon early doors, and after the jump there are ten wonderful roller skating videos that you can show to your friends, as you explain that, really, you’ve always been into it… Read More >>>
Here’s one (not) made earlier.
In a movie industry dominated by action hero sequels, re-makes and Judd Apatow productions, there sometimes comes a long a comedy that truly is the cream on top of the cake.
Whip It follows Bliss Cavendar, an unhappy teen trapped in her small Texan town, until she discovers a hard core roller derby league in Austin. Bliss soon discovers that sometimes you need to grab life by the wheels and roll on out your own destiny.
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Given the high abundance of adolescent pseudo-intellectual gobbledegook that seeps from the jaws of Ellen Page’s Juno in the Oscar-winning movie of the same name, it’s hard to view her with anything but sheer barbaric contempt.
