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SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS

March 17, 2023 By Leave a Comment

SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS

SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS is a big and bubbly adventure overflowing with wisecracks, mythical creatures and, for the good people who have taken in so many foster children, an explanation for why their house keeps getting hit by lightning. A worthy sequel to its original, it picks up with Billy Batson (Asher Angel) still… Read More »

Tagged With: aging out, foster care system, high school, Olympic gods, Rock of Eternity, sequel super hero

JOE BELL

July 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

JOE BELL

A key moment in the fact-based JOE BELL comes early one as the titular character (Mark Wahlberg), a working-class man from a small town in Oregon, is told by his adolescent son, Jadin (Reid Miller) that he is being bullied at school for being gay. It’s two revelations, and Joe doesn’t miss a beat telling… Read More »

Tagged With: bullying, father-son, high school, LGBTQ

PAPER SPIDERS

May 11, 2021 By 1 Comment

PAPER SPIDERS

Husband and wife writing team Inon Shampanier and Natalie Shampanier wrote PAPER SPIDERS from personal experience, which gives it that extra gloss of authenticity. While it does not reflect the factual truth of the struggles they had with Natalie’s mother and her diagnosis of persecutory delusional disorder, it does convey the emotional truth of seeing… Read More »

Tagged With: high school, mental illness, mother-daughter, paranoia, persecutory delusional disorder

BOYS STATE

August 12, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BOYS STATE

As some of us still ponder the results of the presidential election of 2016, and view the approach of the 2020 election with trepidation, there is no more timely nor illuminating film than Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’ cinema verité documentary, BOY’S STATE.

Tagged With: abortion, Boy's State, education, elections, gun control, high school, politics, Texas

LUCE

August 11, 2019 By Leave a Comment

LUCE

LUCE is less a film than a political dialectic on race and class in these United States, and a brilliant, exquisitely performed one at that. Told with a deliberate, sometimes maddening ambiguity, it challenges the audience at every turn about where the truth lies, and the limits of familial loyalty. By the end, not every… Read More »

Tagged With: child soldier, classism, high school, lying, racism, stage to screen, truth

SPIDERMAN: FAR FROM HOME

July 13, 2019 By 1 Comment

SPIDERMAN: FAR FROM HOME

We learn many things in SPIDERMAN FAR FROM HOME. We learn that not only are the Dutch polyglots, but also that they are the nicest people on earth, even when a private jet is making hash of their iconic tulip fields. We learn that saving the planet is just as important as getting that first… Read More »

Tagged With: Freudian nightmare, high school, Jungian archetype, Marvel Comic book character, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, romance, school trip, sequel, Spiderman

GIANT LITTLE ONES

March 27, 2019 By Leave a Comment

GIANT LITTLE ONES

GIANT LITTLE ONES is a perceptive, intelligent examination of what happens when unexpected feelings and actions don’t have neat labels.  In a time when acceptance of teenage sexuality, at least straight sexuality, has become the norm for most concerned, both parents and their sexually active kids, the question of sexual fluidity can still flummox.

Tagged With: coming of age, high school, sex, sexual fluidity

AS YOU ARE — Miles Joris-Peyrafitte Interview

February 27, 2017 By Leave a Comment

AS YOU ARE — Miles Joris-Peyrafitte  Interview

Mile Joris-Peyrafitte was only 23 when he made AS YOU ARE, and that was the first thing I brought up when we spoke by phone on February 22, 2017.  This deeply affecting story, about three high school friends, two young men and a young woman, confronting volatile and confusing situations has a visual assurance and… Read More »

Tagged With: domestic violence, fluid sexuality, guns, high school, LGBTQ, mystery, spin the bottle

LAZER TEAM

January 28, 2016 By 1 Comment

LAZER TEAM

LAZER TEAM is a cheerfully cheesy homage to great and not-so-great sci-fi  movies of days gone by.  With a goofy sense of humor, a droll use of irony, and whipsmart comedic instincts, it tells the time-honored tale of misfits finding the greatness within themselves, while also saving the earth from evil alien invaders. It takes as… Read More »

Tagged With: alien invasion, dorks, football, high school, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, nuclear option, particle ray, Sci-fi, secret government programs, social media, spoof

HAMLET 2

September 23, 2015 By Leave a Comment

HAMLET 2

Where do dreams go to die? That’s the question posed at the beginning of HAMLET 2, a comedy about the triumph of enthusiasm over talent. The answer to that question is Tucson, Arizona, at least for Dana Marschz, a spectacularly untalented actor turned equally untalented drama teacher at a high school there. Driven from a… Read More »

Tagged With: Amy Poehler, Andrew Fleming, drama coach, Elizabeth Shue, HAMLET 2, high school, high school theater, Pam Brady, sequet to Hamlet, Steve Coogan

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