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BRIGHTBURN

May 27, 2019 By Leave a Comment

BRIGHTBURN

What we have here is a dynamite premise fumbled in the execution. BRIGHTBURN gives us a strange visitor from another planet crashing to Earth as a baby and taken in by a good-hearted, infertile farm couple (Elizabeth Banks, David Denman) in the midst of baby fever. As with that other story of an infant from… Read More »

Tagged With: adolescence, adoption, alien visitor, horror, superhero

MICROBE AND GASOLINE — Michel Gondry Interview

July 14, 2016 By Leave a Comment

MICROBE AND GASOLINE — Michel Gondry Interview

Michel Gondry is a man unafraid to let flights of fancy inform, and sometimes drive, his whimsically serious films, which include MOOD INDIGO and THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP. Yet in MICROBE AND GASOLINE, his semi-autobiographical film, he has kept his gift for magical realism in check, focusing instead on the magic of friendship at a… Read More »

Tagged With: adolescence, childhood home, French Cinema, friendship, GREEN HORNET, hand-drawn animation, IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?, memories, Noam Chomsky, Runaways, sexual harassment

THE DUFF Rules

February 24, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE DUFF Rules

There are, to be sure, the usual tropes of high school angst and triumph to be found in THE DUFF, based on the book by Kody Keplinger, but this is a film distinguished by sprightly, intelligent writing, and outstanding performances that are not just funny, but also perceptive and nuanced.  Except for the high school… Read More »

Tagged With: adolescence, Allison Janney, Ari Sandel, Bella Thorne, book to screen, cyber bullying, high school, high school crush, homecoming, insecurities, Josh A. Cagan, Ken Jeong, Kody Keplinger, Mae Whitman, Nick Eversman, Romany Malco, young adult

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