There’s a certain kind of cultural blind spot that happens when something is packaged “wrong.” A film flops, critics shrug, and everything attached to it gets quietly filed away as disposable. That’s exactly what happened to Grease 2 – and, by extension, to “Cool Rider,” performed by Michelle Pfeiffer. But strip away the baggage of…
There’s something kind of ironic in Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies aiming to ramp up the female empowerment. As seems to be the norm now for familiar property, the creators of this prequel series have essentially refashioned it for modern audiences and, in the process, made it feel like a separate entity entirely to…