Rolling Stone Menu Amy Poehler Revives Riot Grrrl With ‘Moxie’: Watch the Trailer
High school coming-of-age film is based on novel by Jennifer Mathieu
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Netflix has released the first official trailer for
Moxie, a coming-of-age film directed by Amy Poehler and based on the novel by Jennifer Mathieu that evokes the spirit of riot grrrl in the 2020s.
Moxie stars Hadley Robinson as Vivian, a shy 16-year-old who prefers to keep her head down and fly under the radar, even as bullying and sexual harassment are normalized at her high school. But when a new student (Alycia Pascual-Peña) starts to stand up to her peers’ unchecked behavior, Vivian is forced to reckon with how she really feels about the harassment not to mention the sexist double standards from the school’s teachers and administration and realizes that she’s fed up.
Poehler made her debut as a director with
Wine Country in 2019, which was also released on Netflix and starred her longtime collaborator Tina Fey.
Fey and Poehler co-hosted the Golden Globes awards ceremony last year, and are set to return to host the 2021 event on February 28.
Elsewhere, Amy Poehler recently co-created the animated sitcom
Duncanville, focusing on an average boy living in middle America. The show starred Wiz Khalifa, Rashida Jones, Betsy Sodaro, Ty Burrell and more.
“Shows like
The Simpsons are so iconic because they’re funny to so many people at once,” Poehler told
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“We really wanted to create something that your kids would think is funny but they wouldn’t hate it if you were watching it with them.
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CBS News anchor
Gayle King,
Miya Ponsetto, 22, insisted that she, a Puerto Rican of mixed ethnicities, was not capable of being racist. The interview followed her attack on
Keyon Harrold Jr., a 14-year-old Black boy she falsely accused of cellphone theft in a New York hotel lobby.
This moment with Soho Karen, as she is now called by the internet, took me back to a time when I was about 12 years old the time I learned blood is not always thicker than race.
It was a typical family squabble, something minor but blown out of proportion due to miscommunication.
One family member who is Latino and non-Black (Puerto Rican specifically), called another one of my family members, who is Black, the N-word.