Tag: high school

• Top 5 High School Movies

  Originally published at Cinema Sugar. 1. Brick If you found high school to be a dark, inscrutable enigma with a rigidly enforced social-class structure and impenetrable lingo, you’ll deeply appreciate Rian Johnson’s lean and masterful debut feature that renders adolescence as gritty film noir. A young, sphinx-like Joseph Gordon-Levitt investigates his ex-girlfriend’s mysterious disappearance like […]

  September 6, 2022

  Film

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• The High School Movie Party: That’s L-I-V-I-N

  Originally published at Cinema Sugar. Too many unsupervised teenagers at a fancy house. Red Solo cups strewn about. A couple making out. A skater kid sliding down the stairs into a tower of beer cans. Someone throwing up at just the wrong moment. Welcome to a high-school movie house party. Despite seeing this kind of […]

  September 5, 2022

  Film

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• Booksmart

  Booksmart, the directorial debut of the actress Olivia Wilde, was charming as hell. Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever star as Molly and Amy, two friends and straight-A students on the eve of high school graduation who realize their academic drive kept them from enjoying the more party-heavy pursuits of their peers. They seek to remedy […]

  October 5, 2019

  Film

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• It’s fall: what music are you listening to?

  Here’s an incomplete, totally subjective playlist of music that reminds me of fall. Let me know in the comments what music reminds you of autumn. “October” by Eric Whitacre. Played the orchestral version of this in high school, but the choral version is just as good and beautifully evocative of the season. “Oh Shenandoah” folk […]

  November 9, 2017

  Life, Music

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