Sentences with phrase «high school movie»

The film relies on too many high school movie conventions and personality tropes.

A thoughtful, original high school movie that does all the right things.

Like many high school movies, most of the actors in this cast are in their 20s.

Consult your own experience (or a host of high school movies), and you'll probably recall less socially successful kids being taunted with names, not invited to parties, and even sometimes being bullied online and off.

The bad boys and girls in high school movies always have a posse, usually two or three members, who follow close behind their leader and look ominous and slack - jawed.

During his WWDC presentation, Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice-president of software and services, asked Siri to «find high school movies from the 80s,» and the set - top box surfaced a variety of high school themed films from that era, including Ferris Buller's Day Off.

Unlike high school movies made for the teen market Chalk gets many of its laughs from the backstage wrangling among the teachers as they unload their stress on one another.

Arguably the best high school movie ever made, John Hughes» The Breakfast Club finally makes its way to Blu - ray.

Some Kind Of Wonderful — The least well - known John Hughes high school movie of the 80s is one of my favorites.

It's kind of like a stereotypical high school movie where the nerds all sit at one table and the jocks all sit at another and generally hate each other.

Mix in porkys and all the other modern day high school movies and this is what you get.

A boy and a girl singing some Marvin Gaye to each other, a pastryphile growing to care about a flute - toting band geek, guys who pick on each other but who do care about the friendship they share... This isn't on the level of John Hughes» «80s high school movies, but this franchise is pretty much the cream of the crop of late «90s teenxploitation.

Love, Simon is a very sweet high school movie.

Too leaden for farce and too bland for satire, Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse's «Dear Dictator» wastes a potential gold mine of culture - clashing silliness on worn, high school movie clichés.

LADY BIRD - A hilarious and heartfelt comedy about status and rebellion that's sure to become the defining high school movie of our times.

While hewing closely to Footloose's original story and themes, Brewer's film throws the standard high school movie notion of a teenage caste system out the window.

The lists of the best high school movies seem to always start with John Hughes» «The Breakfast Club» or «Sixteen Candles.»

Great high school movies made by women include «Fast Times at Ridgemont High,» «Valley Girl» and now, «Lady Bird.»

Hughes Andrew Rothschild The story of writer - director John Hughes, whose emotionally honest high school movies helped to define American culture in the 1980s — but who, at the very height of his success, abruptly abandoned filmmaking for reasons that have never been fully explained.

Thirty years since its lucrative February theatrical release, the barely dated Breakfast Club continues to be revered as one of the definitive high school movies.

Currently, Aldarondo is developing a new documentary that turns the American high school movie inside out.

The Blu - ray's 1.85:1 element is basically flawless, which is nothing out of the ordinary for a brand new film but a pleasant surprise for a 1980s high school movie, which is far from guaranteed to look this terrific three decades later.

As we hit the 00s, most high school movies were mimicking the greats that came before, referencing the 80s nostalgia or trying to hone in on what made the likes of Mean Girls so successful.

It's an inventive twist on the usual high school movie, and it has...

Based on a novel by Tim Tharp, the movie looks like any number of party - time high school movies, but burrows much deeper into its characters and situations, leaving a satisfyingly complex portrait of a guy you might actually know.

A faux - documentary that charts the crumbling relationship between two high school movie geeks...

That's the premise of «Harry Potter Spring Teen Comedy,» a clever YouTube video that reimagines Harry Potter And The Half - Blood Prince, the sixth of eight films in the series, as a raunchy, rowdy high school movie.

Being the quintessential High School Movie, you have to see Dazed and Confused if you are, even in the slightest way possible, interested in this scenario.

«I love high school movies, and sparked to the authenticity of these characters,» Tolmach told me.

It's a bit more direct about sex, but it still feels like any of the recent phony high school movies, «She's All That» or some other dud.

They're supposed to be either as perfect as how they're portrayed on Disney or as mean as they're portrayed in high school movies.

The two most obvious reference points are the Harry Potter series and The Incredibles, with dashes of X-Men, Mean Girls, and most any John Hughes high school movie.

LIke many high school movies, the climax takes place at a school dance, only here it's a Halloween ball instead of prom.

Ally Sheedy says that while there are plenty of high school movies, few live up to Breakfast Club.

Swings are always prettier from the left side, home runs are always more majestic when they're pulled high into the night, and power is always more impressive when it comes from a guy who looks like the bully in a high school movie.

You know how in all those high school movies the average nerd goes through a makeover and comes out with perfect hair?

I mena, there's a bit of a love story going on, and it's a high school movie, but really, that's just extra stuff.

As we get further into the modern age, high school movies are becoming increasingly easier to suss out the good ones from the bad ones.

The 90s saw the high school movie less a consistent winner and more a matter of taste.

However, every cloud has a silver lining and the mass production and watered down nature of the high school movie genre does mean that when there is a genuinely good one in our midst, we notice it.

A socially maladroit, carrot - topped teenager who lives with a grandmother who keeps llamas, Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) is an unlikely hero for a high school movie.

So where Brick was a hardcore film noir story set in the world of high school students, Assassination is a high school movie with a noir mystery storyline.»

It's so good that I wish Stark wouldn't keep getting in the way of what should have been even more of a high school movie than it actually is.

Every high school — or at least every high school movie — has a character like Sutter Keely (Miles Teller).

And for every Superbad, there are four or five lesser films like Project X. And sure, occasionally you'll get a high school movie that actually has something to say about the academic and societal pressures of being a student (Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow is a great example), but even that focused primarily on male characters.

Clever, funny, unpredictable and an underrated member of the high school movie canon.