Tag Archives: Ashley Tisdale

Get’cha Ass On The Road

Working my way through the third season of Glee got me in a musical sorta mood… so when I saw multiple DVD copies of High School Musical: The Concert (2007) going for 50p in a local s-hand shop, I snapped … Continue reading

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Too Bad (Better To Come?)

In last week’s episode of Bad Teacher, the characters found themselves facing a teacher-evaluation day, with the threat of budget-tightening redundancies hanging over their heads. They all managed to pass muster and hang on to their jobs (phew!)… but the … Continue reading

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Wu Who?

There was a lot of talk a while back about remaking the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, but apparently no one noticed that the Disney Channel had already remade it, with a different title and Brenda Song in the … Continue reading

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Space Goblins & Earth Girls

By a wacky coincidence, there were two kiddy-centric “alien encounter” movies on TV last weekend… First up was E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning classic, starring Henry Thomas as a lonely boy named ‘Elliot’, who befriends a waddling, yelping … Continue reading

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High School Homogeny

[Contains corridor-spinning SPOILERS!!!] According to the screenwriting book I’m reading at the moment, the starting point for every great story is a protagonist (hero) that your audience can cheer for, and an antagonist (villain) that they can jeer at. Unfortunately, … Continue reading

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Going Home In A Doggy Bag

Considering the huge success of the High School Musical movies, I’m sure Disney could have half-arsed their direct-to-DVD spin-off, Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure (2011), and still have made a decent return on their investment… but, as it turns out, it’s actually … Continue reading

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