Showing posts with label freeway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freeway. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

1996 Week: FREEWAY

 by Rosalie Lewis

“Get your goddamn hands off my anatomy!” shrieks a teenage Reese Witherspoon to her skeezed out stepdad in an early scene from Matthew Bright’s teensploitation take on Little Red Riding Hood. A few minutes later, she’s hitting the road after her useless parental units get hauled off to jail. Maybe the grandmother she’s never met will save her from the horrors of the foster care system, so over the freeway and through the hood to grandmother’s house (or, in this case, trailer) she goes.

Thursday, February 15, 2018