PUSH GIRLS’ Chelsie Hill pushes back against drunk driving

Sundance Channel’s original series PUSH GIRLS' star Chelsie Hill, 20, was paralyzed in high school after a car crash caused by drunk driving. She has since made it her mission to share her story with other teenagers to help prevent future tragedies. Find out how Chelsie is fighting to make sure other teens don’t end up in the same situation and check out her story in Seventeen Magazine.

Tavi Gevinson wants better lady characters on TV: We’ve got some of her faves with FREAKS & GEEKS and MY SO-CALLED LIFE

Rookie’s Tavi Gevinson took to TedxTeen to find out what happened to complicated (read: interesting) teenage girls on TV. Frankly, they’ve been hard to find since the 90s. The two shows she holds up for the their shining examples of awesomely interesting ladies figuring their teen selves out? FREAKS & GEEKS and MY SO-CALLED LIFE, which you can watch on Sundance Channel.

Thanks, Tavi. I’m sure Angela Chase would have something insightful to say:

Top 10 Reasons to re-watch FIGHT CLUB

It’s worth asking again – who exactly is re-watching TITANIC? Apparently everyone, since it’s currently number 3 at the box office (btw, this centennial thing is getting completely out of hand). It makes perfect sense though; films truly worth re-watching are cult films, and TITANIC has definitely become one of those. As has David Fincher’s anti-establishment opus FIGHT CLUB. The 1999 film achieved cult status and more – it’s become a cultural touchstone of both male buffoonery and thoroughly artful storytelling. A story rife with psychological parables and higher thinking, not to mention some pretty hard-boiled violence, this was definitely a worthy entry in a year that included releases like MAGNOLIA, BEING JOHN MALKOVITCH and AMERICAN BEAUTY.

Yep, Tyler Durden is definitely going to be on our asses… we’ve clearly been breaking the First Two Rules of Fight Club. But without further ado, the Top 10 Reasons to Re-watch FIGHT CLUB are:

BRICK CITY Mayor Cory Booker saves woman from burning building, causes all social media platforms to explode

I like to do a quick scan of Facebook and Twitter before I go to bed. I just can’t sleep if I think I might be last person to know about some sort of Kardashian disaster, a North Korean missile extravaganza or capybaras that look like Rafael Nadal. So you can imagine my horror, and concern, when I saw this tweet from Newark Mayor Cory Booker:

@CoryBooker Thanks 2 all who are concerned. Just suffering smoke inhalation. We got the woman out of the house. We are both off to hospital. I will b ok

And thanks to BRICK CITY Executive Producer, Mark Benjamin, I got the full story (via Politico) on how the mayor is now a full-fledged superhero! When Booker got home last night, he saw smoke and flames pouring out of the building next door. So he ran in (with his security detail, natch) to look for anybody who might be trapped. Since the building’s residents are his neighbors, Booker knew who he was looking for…a woman who lived in the apartment that was on fire

Now playing on Sundance Channel: Real, animated and forgotten violence

It’s sexy fight time! Need we say more? This week on Sundance Channel we’ve got every college dude’s favorite movie, a look at a look at the sexual phenomenon of “dogging”, and a martial arts spectacular. That’s all sexy and fun, but we also want to keep you grounded, so stick around for a novel approach to documentary storytelling, too.

ONE PUNK UNDER GOD Jay Bakker is Straight for Equality

Everybody knows Jay Bakker of Revolution Church and Sundance Channel’s ONE PUNK UNDER GOD is awesome. And it is always nice to see awesome people get the recognition they deserve. This week Jay was honored with PFLAG National’s first Straight for Equality in Faith Award at the 4th Annual Straight for Equality Gala. He has been preaching tolerance and acceptance for years and fighting to convince religious leaders that LGBT people need to be accepted into their communities. Check out what the prodigal son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker has to say on how his fight for acceptance has evolved: