“If….,” Rudyard Kipling’s ode to British stoicism and stiff upper lips, hangs like a raised eyebrow over Lindsay Anderson’s acerbic…
Browsing: Back to School
“The Wackness” came at me from out of the blue; and by “out of the blue,” I mean I heard…
Bleakly beautiful and painfully sad, “Kes” remains Ken Loach’s masterpiece. For over 50 years, he has made films about the…
“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” remains one the best films ever made. The 1986 John Hughes classic is one of my…
We record episode 3 of our podcast this week, taking a look at three back to school films—“Mean Girls,” “The…
Released in the summer of 1999, “American Pie” was a raucous, laugh-filled comedy that hinged itself on the pulse of…
The popular clique from which this movie derives its title – ‘The Plastics’ – are really mean. Sure, they’re mean…
“Angus” is about an adolescent with an unfortunate name; for as he tells us in the beginning of this film…
Amidst a genre packed with coming of age themes, John Hughes’ 1985 “The Breakfast Club” succeeds by concerning itself more…
Not any writer has quite analyzed teen angst as well as John Hughes, but Chbosky comes pretty close. Meet Charlie…