Sentences with phrase «high school films»

It's your typical coming - of - age story, but one that's handled with a certain level of maturity rarely found in high school films, and though the comparisons to «The Breakfast Club» may not be completely warranted, it's one of the few movies about high school that actually gets it right.

Although I'm probably way too old to be admitting this, but I'm a connoisseur of sorts of high school films, and Mean Girls is one of the best that I've seen in a while (at least since Cant Hardly Wait).

Maybe for the sake of some troubled kids these high school films should show what unchanging people look like, instead of what their parents want them to be.

Part of the reason why high school films are often sanitised is because they have to be suitable to attract the very demographics they are portraying.

The Edge of Seventeen plays homage to the beloved John Hughes high school films of the 1980s.

Like «Lady Bird,» the John Hughes - penned high school film follows an outsider (Molly Ringwald as Andie) who is desperate to both fit in and stand out at her chi - chi high school.

It was one of my first REAL foreign film experiences in my high school film class and it's always stuck with me since.

James Franco is giving back to the community to teach a high school film course.

The first is his trick off the side of a school bus, like the hero of a 1980s high school film.

Notably absent the kind of condescension that can occur when an experienced filmmaker takes on a high school story, here Famuyiwa doesn't just reorient the high school film around the experience of a young black self - confessed geek, but riffs on social and class issues, and the riddles of perception versus reality during those difficult teenage years too.

Every high school film has that bitchy girl who is incredibly evil, but in Mean Girls, we learn more about the subtle ways that girls sabotage each other's success.

in this mediocre high school film.

But then it could be argued that the hoops action is almost incidental in this fact - based story, for the title character, Richmond High School (though actually filmed at my alma mater, Long Beach Polytechnic High School, which somehow became the go - to ghetto high school filming location after I graduated) basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), is less concerned with how his young charges fare on the court than they do in the classroom and, ultimately, in the game of adult life.

This also included past students from Upwey High School filming the performance as a part of the cross-age tutoring program run across the school network.

Not exact matches

In the film, dozens of Japanese high - school students are placed on an island, given weapons, and forced to kill one another until one person remains.

The women included Gennette Cordova, 21, the college student; Ginger Lee, 24, a former pornographic film actress from Tennessee who exchanged over 100 e-mails with the congressman; and a Delaware high school student, 17, whose family said she exchanged five private messages with Mr. Weiner that did not include indecent or explicit material.

An unfiltered glorification of crime, the movie is thought to have encouraged a number of copycat killings, including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, during which 12 people were shot dead, as the murderers supposedly yelled lines from the film.

In the 2002 film, «The Rookie,» actor Dennis Quaid plays a middle - aged high school baseball coach who tries out for a major league baseball team.

So I'd suggest adding this terrific film to the curriculum of every Catholic (and indeed every Christian) high school in North America, to remind students what happened in their parents» lifetimes and to inspire them to moral greatness themselves.

I recall the safe driving films in high school that made kids think a little more when driving.

The 2009 biographical film about a black high school student adopted by a white Christian family is rated PG - 13 and became something of an evangelical darling when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and Focus on the Family.

This film was shown in the Bible classes in the school where I teach — Encina High, Sacramento — when, in 1973, we introduced a Bible course there as a junior - senior nine - week literature elective.

I arrogantly declined to attend the local high school and college games; and with eyes narrowed and brows aloft I flipped from the Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday TV battles to the public broadcasting channel for a film by Ingmar Bergman or a lecture from Chicago on recent trends in Bulgarian poetry.

The Houston Press: San Benito Teacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse A ninth - grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to YouTube.

There's a lot to be said about Lady Bird, a wonderful film about a young girl's final year of high school in Sacramento.

Horton's background in the Dallas - Fort Worth area helped him discover Washington, who put up eye - popping film and was a top sprinter on the track team at Kennedale High School.

Jan 04,2016... Shooting high school football films has become a nationwide phenomenon.

He does the things that leaders do, like paying the way for several of his receivers to join him for off - season passing workouts, dubbed Jets West, at his old high school in Mission Viejo, Calif., and putting in long hours of film study.

The Sutcliffes» part in Welch's recovery is described in Welch's book, Five O'clock Comes Early, and documented in a 23 - minute film called Comebacker, which is shown at high schools, churches and alcohol - rehabilitation centers.

Stallworth was thrilled when, in 1970, a member of the Alabama staff asked his high school coach for game films.

Besides watching every game on film and fielding the complaints of outraged general managers, Kuharich assigns officials to games — there are 45 NFL officials of whom 35 are used every weekend — keeps tabs on other officials, college and high school, who would like to get into professional football and, of course, makes certain that the officials he has now are always in control of the game.

LeBron James teared up at the Toronto film festival as he watched More Than a Game, a documentary that follows James and teammates in their pre - high school and high school years.

His high school coach left after football season, and no one was around to send McGregor's films to inquiring college coaches.

Yates Center knows who ate supper in the backyard last night, who had a new thermostat installed, who did or did not make his contribution to the Quarterback Club for buying films of the high school games, who takes cream in his coffee.

Film the last matches of high school, or better yet, film the first few club volleyball practices.

Among the acts allegedly committed by these youth coaches were filming high school girls as they showered, and sexually molesting young swimmers.

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Whether she was moving and grooving in the Disney Channels hit High School Musical TV film series, or rock n rolling through an obstacle course in VH1s 2010 season of Celebrity Fit Club, KayCee Stroh has showed that shes got some moves.

The film documents an experiment by John Cisna, a high school science teacher, who ate nothing but McDonald's for six months and lost 60 pounds in the process.

Chris founded and directed the Westport Youth Film Festival, the first international film festival for high school student filmmakers.

Graziano: We're both music fans and (Mates) had this song that really fit with this one section of the film about the kids from Tilden (High School) and we thought we'd ask.

It's the generation that grew up with Lucas Grabeel from the High School Musical series and so many other films.

TV and film producer Trevor Engelson was born and raised in Great Neck, where he graduated from Great Neck North High School.

A New Jersey high - school principal was suspended for allowing rapper Fetty Wap to film a racy music video at the star's alma mater in Paterson, officials said.

«It was heartbreaking to see working - class people lose essential things,» said McPartlan, a Wantagh High School art teacher, who teared up as she watched the film.

Battinelli started his photo journey in 1995 when his father, an amateur hobbyist photographer, bought him a Pentax P30T 35 mm black and white film camera for Christmas so that he could take photography classes in high school at Peru Central Sschool at Peru Central SchoolSchool.

25 year old Vanessa Hudgens is an American actress and singer who rose to fame in her teens starring in the High School Musical films.

I'm from Seattle area and 10 Things I Hate About You was filmed at my rival high school!

After having a laugh at my expense, we found a suitable substitute and bonded over our love of raw fish and Bradley Cooper films, and I regressed to a high school kid with butterflies in his stomach when she laid her head on my shoulder during the movie.

A 2001 study of high school students conducted by Harvard University found Look, I should first say that I don't have any problem with Internet pornography or adult film actresses.