'the last song' review

Miley Cyrus built her fame on her Hannah Montana persona. But how long can that last? That explains her decision to star in The Last Song, a teen drama based on a book by Nicholas Sparks that gives her a more grownup role to play. It ends up being a bit of a disaster. My review is up at Screen International.

hannah montana: the movie

If you're going to go to the trouble of making a big-screen adaptation of your hit Disney Channel show, don't you want to at least put some ingenuity into it? Apparently not -- as Hannah Montana: The Movie suggests, maybe the best thing to do is hit ever cliche in the book so that the whole thing goes down very smoothly. My review is at Screen International.