Skywalkers: A Love Story to Mean Girls – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
An extraordinarily edgy documentary follows a ‘roof-topper’ couple on their ‘extremely dangerous and illegal’ climbs. Plus: the Plastics are back thanks to Tina Fey
June 2024
Mean Girls review – Tina Fey’s high-school classic gets musical spin for the Insta era
Plastics and fellow students give high-grade performances but the songs and production don’t get quite enough As
May 2024
The seven best films to watch on TV this week
The Blackening to Mean Girls: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
A funny and knowing Juneteenth-set slasher about a sinister board game, plus Tina Fey’s hilarious Plastics are still teen movie royalty
January 2024
Back to school: why we keep returning to Mean Girls
The new hit take on the beloved Tina Fey high school comedy shows a lasting appeal, but can the original ever be topped?
November 2023
Mean Girls was a reaction to the casual misogyny of the 00s. What will the reboot have to say?
Zing Tsjeng
Tina Fey’s comedy will need more than one-liners about TikTok and slut-shaming to make Regina George relevant now
June 2023
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play review – clever comedy leaves a stinging afterburn
Jocelyn Bioh’s bitingly funny and sometimes heartbreaking play transposes relatable high-school movie tropes to 1980s Ghana to explore beauty standards and colourism
January 2022
This year I’m becoming a full-on bimbo – it’s better to be stupid and hot
Lucinda Price
There’s no need to out-think things like the pandemic, we can have ‘less thoughts’ and ‘more vibes’
April 2020
My favourite film aged 12
My favourite film aged 12: Mean Girls
Continuing our series in which writers revisit childhood movie passions, we revisit Tina Fey’s endlessly quotable teen comedy – or was it really a horror?
September 2019
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The 50 best comedians of the 21st century
June 2018
'You can't sit with us': how Mean Girls and gifs became part of global diplomacy
Should we be concerned after the US Israeli embassy responded to Iran’s supreme leader with a Regina George quote?
May 2018
The best coming of age films
'Stand By Me prepared me for reality': readers' favourite coming of age films
Cher is Meryl Streep's mum – and five more age-impossible casting choices
April 2018
The best coming of age films
Fetch happens: why Mean Girls is the perfect teen movie
Film blog
Love, Simon: Russell T Davies and more on why the gay teen movie is a 'glorious victory'
January 2018
Mean Girls, Frozen and Denzel: what to expect on Broadway in 2018
Blockbuster movie musicals are set to dominate over the next 12 months while a host of big star names will also be jostling for Tonys
October 2017
Film blog
From The Nightmare Before Christmas to Mean Girls: Halloween is better without the horror
Most Halloween-set scary movies are little more than lazy cash grabs, so why not opt for a surprising seasonal choice instead – The Karate Kid, anyone?
September 2017
Musicals back in vogue, and business, as genre lights up Broadway and TV
From Spongebob SquarePants to Mean Girls, Broadway is gearing up for a wave of new musicals and with TV and film projects too, the genre is back on top
January 2017
Lindsay Lohan's Mean Girls sequel: when stars take franchises into their own hands
The once shining star has talked up a treatment she’s written for Mean Girls 2, but what’s happened before when actors have tried to take control of sequels?
April 2016
Tina Fey working on Mean Girls musical adaption of hit teen comedy
The 30 Rock creator also weighs in on the dark tone of this year’s election and who makes her laugh during a Tribeca film festival storytellers event
