If you've seen Booksmart or Neighbors 2, you know that actress Beanie Feldstein has no problem stealing the show, and now she gets to shine center stage with Coky Giedroyc's delightful adaptation of Caitlin Moran's novel How to Build a Girl. The coming-of-age story is a terrific lens in how teenagers work to build an identity and how that identity has to be constantly rebuilt and torn down to find some semblance of honesty, which is tough when your desires and your truths easily conflict with each other. Although the role has comic beats, Feldstein …
Let’s put this out there first; Beanie Feldstein is a favorite and I was utterly delighted by her latest feature, How to Build a Girl. The film actually marks her very first solo starring role, telling the story of Johanna Morrigan, a bubbly and determined teenager who scores a gig working for a music magazine. Johanna does have some success with her early articles but soon comes to realize that her star power and cashflow would rise far faster if she wrote snarky reviews, panning one musician after the next. As things start to spin out of control, the …
IFC Films has released the charming, irreverent trailer for How to Build a Girl as well as a brightly-colored posted featuring the film's star, Beanie Feldstein. The movie is adapted from English journalist Caitlin Moran's novel of the same name. The How to Build a Girl trailer is our first real look at the coming-of-age tale set in northern England in the early '90s. Feldstein plays Johanna Morrigan, the oldest daughter in a working class family who aspires to greatness. As the trailer teases, Johanna faces some setbacks as she tries to break into music …