Actress and director Kansas Bowling took the name of her movie “Cuddly Toys” from a Harry Nilsson song covered by The Monkees. While the made-for-TV band sold plenty of albums with cheery pop hits ...

Being a teenager, especially a teenage girl, can come with its own set of horrors to endure. Director Kansas Bowling has taken a novel approach to capturing growing up in her feature film debut, ...

More than 100 actresses play in Kansas Bowling’s ‘mondo’ documentary “Cuddly Toys.” ‘Statistically, two of them will be dead before 30,’ reads the poster. Who will it be? “I just made that statistic ...

Kansas Bowling’s Cuddly Toys takes an offbeat, surreal, and often disturbing look at the secret lives of teenage girls that coats its subject matter with a little sugar and a lot of salt. Presented by ...

“Young women are at risk of many dangers, horrors and trauma as they leave adolescence, two out of 100 girls will have a tragic ending,” reads the synopsis for Kansas Bowling’s latest film Cuddly Toys ...