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It's Sharpay and what's-his-name! Ashley Tisdale just revisited her days as a Wildcat and didn't miss a beat. The actress joined TikToker Chris Olsen for a clip on the social media app on Aug. 18 set to her character Sharpay Evans's song "I Want It All" from "High School Musical 3."

In the video, Tisdale - a regular TikTok queen - expertly lip-syncs to the lyrics she sang in the 2008 movie musical, with Olsen taking on the role of her onscreen brother, Ryan (originally portrayed by Lucas Grabeel). The song documents Sharpay's unrelenting vision of success for herself - and Ryan - as her high-school tenure comes to a close. Tisdale wrote on the clip, "Me trying to get Chris to help me with my TikTok."

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This dynamic duo just bopped to the top of our For You page. Ashley Tisdale and TikToker Chris Olsen teamed up to make an iconic TikTok using the audio from High School Musical 3's "I Want it All"—and trust us when we say it's fabulous. In the Aug. 17 video, the pair lip-sync the song while Chris looks perfectly unamused as Ashley rocks out to the lyrics. The High School Music alum paired the clip with words that read, "Me trying to get Chris to help me with my TikTok." When it comes to loving this video, we're all in this together. Users in the comment section couldn't help but gush over this collaboration. "Icons Meeting Icons Meeting Icons," Meghan...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: In honor of “The Florida Project,” which has just started its platform release across the country, what is the greatest child performance in a film?

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I can agonize over this question or I can go at this Malcolm Gladwell “Blink”-style. My answer is Tatum O’Neal in “Paper Moon.” She’s just so funny and tough, which of course makes the performance all the more heartbreaking. She won the freaking Oscar at age 10 for this and I’d really love to give a more deep cut response, but why screw around? Paper Moon is a perfect film and she is the lynchpin.

The films of Nicholas Ray promise delicious surprises. They appear to adorn the shiny cloak of Hollywood studio production, only to shred those genre conventions to pieces by the end. Johnny Guitar (1954) is a weird western. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) is a weird teen film. Bigger than Life (1956) is a weird social problem movie. Yet these three features, all filmed in glorious Technicolor, string together a critique of the Americana ideal. Their threads are of same cloth, much like the outfit that repeatedly appears throughout these films: the iconic red shirt/jacket and blue jeans. Dressed in clashing warm and cool tones, Vienna (Joan Crawford) in Johnny Guitar, Jim Stark (James Dean) in Rebel Without a Cause and Richie (Christopher Olsen) in Bigger than Life see their emotions running hot and cold as they wrestle with contradictory forces.

Vienna, Jim and Richie are all outsiders. In Johnny Guitar, Vienna comes...

Jeanne Crain: Lighthearted movies vs. real life tragedies (photo: Madeleine Carroll and Jeanne Crain in ‘The Fan’) (See also: "Jeanne Crain: From ‘Pinky’ Inanity to ‘Margie’ Magic.") Unlike her characters in Margie, Home in Indiana, State Fair, Centennial Summer, The Fan, and Cheaper by the Dozen (and its sequel, Belles on Their Toes), or even in the more complex A Letter to Three Wives and People Will Talk, Jeanne Crain didn’t find a romantic Happy Ending in real life. In the mid-’50s, Crain accused her husband, former minor actor Paul Brooks aka Paul Brinkman, of infidelity, of living off her earnings, and of brutally beating her. The couple reportedly were never divorced because of their Catholic faith. (And at least in the ’60s, unlike the humanistic, progressive-thinking Margie, Crain was a “conservative” Republican who supported Richard Nixon.) In the early ’90s, she lost two of her...

Randolph Scott Westerns, comedies, war dramas: TCM schedule on August 19, 2013 See previous post: “Cary Grant and Randolph Scott Marriages — And ‘Expect the Biographical Worst.’” 3:00 Am Badman’S Territory (1946). Director: Tim Whelan. Cast: Randolph Scott, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Ann Richards. Bw-98 mins. 4:45 Am Trail Street (1947). Director: Ray Enright. Cast: Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys. Bw-84 mins. 6:15 Am Return Of The Badmen (1948). Director: Ray Enright. Cast: Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Jacqueline White, Steve Brodie, Tom Keene aka Richard Powers, Robert Bray, Lex Barker, Walter Reed, Michael Harvey, Dean White, Robert Armstrong, Tom Tyler, Lew Harvey, Gary Gray, Walter Baldwin, Minna Gombell, Warren Jackson, Robert Clarke, Jason Robards Sr., Ernie Adams, Lane Chandler, Dan Foster, John Hamilton, Kenneth MacDonald, Donald Kerr, Ida Moore, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Harry Shannon, Charles Stevens. Bw-90 mins. 8:00 Am Riding Shotgun (1954). Director: André De Toth. Cast: Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris,...

Bigger Than Life

Directed by Nicholas Ray

United States, 1956

Leonard Cohen’s song Story of Isaac recontextualizes the biblical story to modern times with the lyrics, “You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children, you must not do it anymore. The scheme is not a vision if you never have been tempted by a demon or a god.” Nicholas Ray’s 1956 film Bigger Than Life finds James Mason as the builder of altars and schemer. The exact figure Cohen would later admonish.

Mason is schoolteacher Ed Avery. He’s happily married to his wife Lou (Barbara Rush) and they have a son Richie (Christopher Olsen). They host bridge gatherings for other teachers, including gym instructor and close friend Wally Gibbs (Walter Matthau). Everything is 1950s-domestic and happy. That is, until Ed starts having agonizing stomach pains and fainting spells.

A quick visit to the hospital, featuring a hilariously...

Alfred Hitchcock's film The Man Who Knew Too Much has been remade already (by Hitchcock) and parodied and/or referenced many more times. (See Bill Murray's The Man Who Knew Too Little.) So why not one more? Last fall there was a report that Paramount was developing a kid-centered remake of the film, and now that seems to be moving forward. Much in the way that Disturbia took the Rear Window formula and oriented it for teen audiences, The Kid Who Knew Too Much would take the basic setup from Hitchcock's two films and set it up so that rather than having a couple investigating a scenario that leads to their child being kidnapped, we'd see a kid looking for his stolen parents. John and Jez Butterworth are writing the script, but there is no cast or director at this point. (How has this title never yet been used?...

For anyone who hasn't seen Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, this one is going to be a Major Spoiler.

Now that that's out of the way, for anyone who has seen The Man Who Knew Too Much, it's quite obvious that this is the most profound moment in the entire film, the symphony scene. The 1956 film stars James Stewart as Dr. Ben McKenna and Doris Day as his wife Jo. Along with their young son Hank (Christopher Olsen), they take a trip to Morocco. A little something something goes down and Hank winds up being kidnapped and taken to London.

The McKennas stay hot on the abductors' trail and upon arriving in London, are eventually led to the Royal Albert Hall. It's there that their son's kidnappers will execute a plan to assassinate an important political figure, precisely timing the fatal gunshot with the crash of a cymbal.

Nicholas Ray is considered one of the great directors for a number of great noir and western films, but a number of his works have remained unreleased on home video. His best known film is easily Rebel without a Cause, but movies like On Dangerous Ground, They Live by Night, In a Lonely Place and Johnny Guitar have attracted cineaste and cultists (Guitar is fascinating in that it stars Joan Crawford in a very purple western). For many, the only word on Bigger Than Life was that it was raved about it in his A Personal Journey Though American Movies with Martin Scorsese. But - at the time in the mid-90’s - a great number of the films he talked about were unavailable, including Bigger than Life. But this James Mason film about Cortisone addiction is well worth discovering with Criterion’s lush Blu-ray release. My review of Bigger than Life after the jump.