Destination Wedding – Review Josefine Algieri May 11, 2019 Reviews Romcoms have, over the past few years, slowly but steadily been making a deserved comeback – and what could be a better genre to reunite Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves on screen, more than 25 years after...
Why Heathers Is A Cynical Masterpiece Cathy Brennan April 5, 2018 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Let’s get something out of the way: high school is hell, and if you enjoyed it then you probably made it miserable for those who didn’t. Adult appreciation of the high school film is more complex than mere...
Is Mean Girls The Greatest Teen Comedy Of All Time? Cathy Brennan May 12, 2016 Analysis, Features, Opinion Since its release in 2004 Mean Girls has quickly cemented itself as a classic teen comedy. In the years since, the popularity of the genre has petered out into minor successes like Easy A and embarrassing...
A Love Letter To… Zoolander Conor Morgan February 20, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia In Zoolander, Ben Stiller’s 2001 send-up of the fashion industry, the shadowy controlling figures of the trade task leading designer Mugatu (Will Ferrell) with finding a suitable candidate to assassinate the...
Welcome to the ’80s: We Don’t Need No Education Rachel Brook November 29, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, Welcome to the 80s 1980s high school movies are a mixed bag, with the plethora of cult teen films ranging tonally from dick jokes to contemplations on mortality (sometimes even within the same film). Of course the high-school...