Mean Girls (2004)
The ultimate irony of a satire about a good girl who pretends to convert to a bad girl in order to undermine the loathsome “in-crowd” but becoming one of them in the process —...
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If Looks Could Kill (1991)
I remember my younger, less discriminating days when I would watch “21 Jump Street” on Fox every week. I couldn’t really remember what caused me to eventually lose interest in the show, figuring I...
Grind (2003)
Here’s another classic example of a movie that had the potential to be something more but is crippled by the notion that they have to do what everyone else is doing, for fear that they will...
Spider-Man (2002)
Initially, it was somewhat of a disappointment to hear that what once was supposed to be a James Cameron project would eventually digress into the hands of Sam “Evil Dead” Raimi. Raimi was the...
Ghost World (2001)
Five years after giving us the quirky Crumb, director Terry Zwigoff delivers another batch of off-beat goodness in Ghost World. The film is based on the small press comic book of the same name by Daniel Clowes,...
Get Over It (2001)
The unfortunate thing about most teen comedies is that 99% of them are content to stick to a tried and true formula rather than tell a compelling tale of teen angst and heartbroken romance....
Remember the Titans (2000)
I suppose it was about time for producer Jerry Bruckheimer to release another stinker on the movie-going public, and Remember the Titans ranks among his very worst. Based on a true story, this film is...
But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER is of the type of comedy that annoys me the most, the type of comedy that tries to achieve laughs merely from tossing together eccentric characters and putting them in...
Election (1999)
Tracy Flick (Witherspoon, Cruel Intentions) is an ambitious overachieving high school busybody running for class president. Jim McAllister (Broderick, Godzilla) is a teacher at the school in charge of the election and is hell-bent against seeing Flick succeed...
American Pie (1999)
American Pie is about four high school boys on the verge of graduation who form a pact to all lose their virginity before leaving high school. They all try their hardest but find out it...