‘Beauty Shop’

Straight from the frames of “Barbershop 2,” Queen Latifah stars in a movie of her own. “Beauty Shop,” which opens Wednesday, features her as Gina, a hair-stylist who quits working for the arrogant opportunist Jorge (Kevin Bacon) and buys a shop of her own. In the process, she takes along a ditsy shampoo girl (Alicia Silverstone) and inherits a crew more interested in passing on gossip than in washing or coloring or even cutting hair.

–Dan Webster, staff writer