Sentences with phrase «teen cult comedy»

Taking its title from the dark 80s teen cult comedy by the same name, Heathers takes a look at pop culture's (and pop cinema's) co-option of contemporary art and its «impulse to vampirise levity as a cipher for criticality and de-subjectivisation».

Not exact matches

Up until this point, John Cusack had spent almost his entire cinematic career in teen comedies, from Class to The Sure Thing via cult classic Better Off Dead to the misfired Hot Pursuit, Cusack's unique and very human screen persona stole every show he was in - but by 1988, he'd become determined to move on into more serious and adult cinema.

The original movie was, in my eyes, a comedic masterpiece, taking the teen comedy and elevating it to a cult status.

Seventeen years later, indie filmmaker Miguel Arteta has delivered the film version, and while the novel's cult may prove hard to please, Youth in Revolt is a pleasant diversion from the lowest - common - denominator, airbrushed Hollywood teen sex comedy.