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After the complete disaster that was What Goes Up, described as ‘pointless and pretentious’ by Variety magazine, Hilary Duff hasn’t given up on trying to star in cool indie teen films, and you can see the trailer for her latest, Greta, here. It actually looks like quite a sweet and interesting film, so I’ll probably try to see it if it ever gets released.

Did you know that the classic 90s teen film Ten Things I Hate About You has been made into a TV series? It recently started on ABC Family in America and although it’s not a patch on the fantastic original, I’m quite enjoying it so far. Perhaps this is simply proof that I’ll watch anything as long as it’s aimed at teenage girls!

Once upon a time, Thora Birch was the coolest of all teen stars with her lead roles in Ghost World and American Beauty. Having not heard from her in a while, I looked her up on IMDB, only to find that her next project is a feature film remake of the CBBC series Cavegirl. Super-random! It also stars Jacob Zachar, who plays Rusty in my current fave TV show, Greek.

Trailer: Whip It!

Drew Barrymore has never directed a film before, but she’s starting on a very high note by casting the wonderful Ellen Page as her heroine. Ellen plays a teenage girl who has been brought up as a pageant queen but longs for something more, and gets her chance when she joins a roller-skating team. Drew starred in Never Been Kissed, one of the best teen films around when I was the perfect age for them, and I hope that Whip It! will have the same effect on girls who are that age now.

Trailers: Teen Musical Special

My favourite types of films are teen films and musicals, so as you can imagine, I always get quite excited when a new teen musical is coming out. Thanks to the success of High School Musical, they’re much more common these days. Recently, we’ve had Spectacular!, The American Mall, and Were the World Mine, and Bandslam and Fame will both be released over the next few months. I can’t wait to see them!

Fame

Bandslam

Trailer: Rocket Science

This looks good! A sweet American indie film about a geeky teenager who gets into the school debating team. Sounds a lot like Thumbsucker but I liked that film so I’m sure I’ll like this one too.