Beautiful Creatures
In a small Southern town that feels far from everything, where everyone is "too stupid to leave or too stuck to move," a teenage boy named Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) dreams every night of a girl he has...
View ArticleCarrie
The remake of "Carrie" is not a bad movie; it's just a completely unnecessary one. The 1976 original is a horror classic, directed by Brian de Palma and the first film based on a novel...Read the full...
View ArticleContest
"Contest" more than makes up for some first-time-filmmaker shortcomings with its sincerity and unexpected strengths in the storyline and cinematography. Tommy (Danny Flaherty) is a high school loner,...
View ArticleG.B.F.
Writer George Northy and director Darren Stein manage to subvert and salute the traditions of the high school comedy in this smart, fresh, and funny story that shakes up the classic elements of teen...
View ArticleA Birder’s Guide to Everything
First rule: do NOT call them bird watchers. These are seriously ornithophilic teenagers and the correct term is "birder." Maybe one reason they like birds so much is that the three members of the high...
View ArticleWhen the Game Stands Tall
This dreary assemblage of every possible sports cliché has one thing in common with the game it portrays. Every time it seems to be going somewhere, it stops. More frustratingly, it wastes the...
View ArticleIf I Stay
Hamlet asked it best. "To be, or not to be: That is the question." We struggle through, worrying about whether someone likes us or whether we will be accepted at the school of our choice. Those seem...
View ArticleWhen the Game Stands Tall — The Real Story
"When the Game Stands Tall" is based on the real-life story of the De La Salle High School Spartans football team, which had the longest winning streak of any team in any sport at any level 151 games...
View Article23 Blast
23 Blast is the name of a football play, and "23 Blast" is based on the real story of Travis Freeman, a high school football star who lost his sight, but, with the help of a courageous coach and...
View ArticleSpare Parts
It really happened. Four undocumented high school kids from the poorest of communities took on the most brilliant engineering students from the country's top colleges in a robotics competition and...
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