Despite of the current strike, Diablo Cody’s skyrocketing career is one of those phenomenons that could fit perfectly into a Hollywood script: Girl without big ambitions is looking for money and takes a job as a stripper. From her experiences she writes a book, Candy Girl, a Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. Then starts a blog. Some guy who would later become her manager, reads it, finds out about the book, gets it published and suggests her to try her hand at scriptwriting. She hesitates, but finally throws herself into it while working as a sex phone operator. The outcome is called Juno and
It’s been seven long years since a Guy Ritchie film has played in theaters stateside, but Revolver has finally arrived. Has Ritchie’s much awaited return to the gangster genre been worth the wait?