The 21st century cheerleader is an athlete unlike any other. With a wide-eyed grin, flashy makeup and a glittering bow to match, she is required to be sturdy yet feminine; pliant yet steely. In ...

“Backspot,” an anxious cheerleading drama by first-time director D.W. Waterson, doesn’t waste a breath before proving that rah-rah is a real sport. One of the jocks wears a small camera strapped to ...

The uplifting film recently won an award at the New York Asian Film Festival and will premiere in the U.S. on Aug. 16. By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief Korean cheerleading movie Victory is headed ...

For years, D.W. Waterson’s go-to performance look for their DJ sets was a purple cheerleading uniform. “For some reason, it just really gets the audience going,” Waterson tells Variety. “Cheerleaders ...

This queer high school movie, starring Devery Jacobs and Evan Rachel Wood, channels an after-school special without the coming-out trauma. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ticket for an ...

D.W. Waterson’s feature directorial debut is a probing, kinetic exploration of the tension between perfection and compassion in a high school cheer squad. What’s immediately noticeable when you first ...