Sentences with phrase «of high school films»

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).

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The film is about high - school senior Bianca, played by Mae Whitman, who finds out living a gay life in the heart of Manila Philippines

We tried dating for a while, but we went to different high schools, and when If the events of the past week have proven anything, it's that Teen Mom 2 should be filmed 24/7 like the freakin» Truman Show...

The film, out Friday, tells the real - life tale of how 19 - year - old high - school dropout

Following a crew of high - school - aged Asian - Americans who use their reputations as studious bookworms to mask their criminal activities, the movie proved without a doubt that Cho had what it took to make it in film.

The best part of the film was the Medieval High School where Shrek finds the young King Arthur, but sadly this only occupies roughly ten to fifteen minutes of the film.

Exposing a different side of Shrek (only brief buttock nudity is seen), the movie sidesteps some of the sexual innuendos played out in previous films, however it depicts a group of high school students stumbling out of a smoke - filled chariot where they've been sharing a joint between classes.

There's every reason to remake the film for the current generation of teens and twenty - somethings, Craig Brewer's version scripted by him and Dean Pitchford updated to the current year, but one in which the high - school kids barely use cell phones and only a few computers are in sight at the school library.

And in a short break from the Tidy Bowl swirl of jokes, the film uses pretty much every high school cliché when Shrek arrives at WA.

Getting short - shrift in all of this is Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas, The Rules of Attraction), who is pushed mostly to the side here — although that may be intended irony, since his character was the most sexually experienced in the original film, making him the guy most likely to have had his glory day in high school, only to go downhill from there.

The Artist plays around with the distinction between silent and sound cinema, resulting in the superficial entertainment value of a high concept film school joke.

Some of his more notable work came from his collaboration with director Spike Lee; over the course of the 1990s, Washington starred in three of his films, playing a jazz trumpeter in Mo» Better Blues (1990), the title role in Lee's epic 1992 biopic Malcolm X (for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination), and the convict father of a high - school basketball star in He Got Game (1998).

With this honor to his name, Biggs segued into film a short time later, debuting in the 1997 Camp Stories.In 1999, the unequivocal hit that was American Pie came along, and Biggs, portraying Jim, one of the more perpetually humiliated members of a group of four friends trying to lose their virginity by high - school graduation, made an undeniably distinct impression on critics and audiences alike.

A fixture of Frank Capra films, Harry Holman showed up as the high school principal in Capra's Yuletide perennial It's a Wonderful Life.

Following a young woman as she awkwardly makes her way through her senior year of high school, Lady Bird explores popularity, family issues, jealousy, and numerous other issues that teenagers face on a daily basis, so if you go into this film having already experienced those years of your life, I guarantee there will be a section of this movie that you can relate to.

Find out in this fantastic, rousing film - but remove all fears of the typical teen - pop covered high school musicals from your minds, as the songs in this film are from legendary artists like David Bowie, The Beach Boys, ELO, and The Byrds.

The film takes us inside the Asian community, showing us a group of smart Asian high school kids who know the drill of grades = college = success, but are bored and not challenged by our current sad state of education.

It's not clear how autobiographical Lady Bird is — Gerwig is from Sacramento and graduated from high school around the time the film is set — but the little slice of universe she shows us feels deeply and lovingly observed.

Nice little film based on the true story of a Katrina - ravished high school basketball team and their incredible rise to the state finals!

After making her film debut in That Night (1992), Heigl balanced movie work with high school, playing a small role in Steven Soderbergh's Depression - era drama King of the Hill (1993), starring as Gérard Depardieu's difficult daughter in My Father the Hero (1994), and Steven Seagal's niece in the action sequel Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995).

She is determined to nurture «from the inside» a project of civil rights education, but her Guarani - speaking high - school students resist her civics lessons - and she quickly learns that gaining their trust won't be an easy task.These subtly illuminating encounters reverberate in the aftermath of the central event of the film - a harrowing sexual assault by a group of young men.

Back in his feature debut, Brick, writer - director Rian Johnson was content to bring deep shades of film noir to the hallways of high school.

The 1080p 2.35 X 1 digital High Definition image was shot in Super 35 mm by Director of Photography Mark Irwin, C.S.C. / A.S.C., giving it the same lame school look emphasizing the same color schemes typical of such films shot in California.

But the film's ambitions and execution are on a par with those of Drew Peterson: Untouchable, as courtroom scenes actually shown in 1996's Paradise Lost are re-enacted with the urgency of high school theater.

Story is told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African - American police officer and a high - school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.

With little resemblance to the classical literary work of Jonathan Swift, this is one film that should never show up in a high school English class as a study aid.

HollywoodNews.com: Zac Efron's latest film, «Charlie St. Cloud,» features a more mature serious side of the «High School Musical» star.

«Ghost Train» (TBA): Japan's second - highest - grossing film of 2006 is a horror film about a high school girl who witnesses a train wreck, and suspects ghosts when her sister goes missing.

Pegged by some as this generation's «Hoop Dreams,» this nonfiction film documents the senior year of a girls» high - school step dance team set against the background of inner - city Baltimore, as each member tries to become the first in their families to attend college.

Rushmore is also something of a high - water mark for Anderson, who is the inadvertent godfather of an irritatingly quirky school of US cinema that grew out of the late 1990s and came to give us such annoying films as Napoleon Dynamite and I Heart Huckabees.

Anyone who has seen «Lady Bird» knows how instrumental Gerwig's all - girl Catholic high school years were to the creation of the film.

The Deadline hot title interweaves a story told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, a black police officer and a high - school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand, showing the impact of racism and violence on a community.

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TV Guide: Speaking of high school, your breakout film role was in Sixteen Candles and then you starred in The Breakfast Club.

The inspiration of the story came from an article Michael Ardnt (who wrote the film) read in a newspaper, where Arnold Schwarzenegger was quoted speaking to a group of high school students: «If there's one thing in this world I hate, it's losers.