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Class of 1993: “This Boy’s Life”
In the “Class of …” series, Nick Rogers takes a monthly look back at films celebrating either their 20th or 30th anniversary of initial release this year — six from 1993 and six from 1983. The rules:...
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Blue is the Warmest Color
“Blue is the Warmest Color” is a luxuriously and literarily elegant film, boasting a visual extremism that envelops us in its characters’ visages and a powerful erotic charge that’s explicit but never...
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Class of 1994: “Reality Bites”
In the “Class of …” series, Nick Rogers takes a monthly look back at films celebrating either their 20th or 30th anniversary of initial release this year — six from 1994 and six from 1984. The rules:...
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Dope
“Dope” is a crazy, funny, smart film. It’s got a terrific batch of young actors, a brash original story and style from writer/director Rick Famuyiwa, and an urgent vitality that demands our attention....
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Class of 1996: ‘Beautiful Girls’
In the “Class of …” series, Nick Rogers takes a monthly look back at films celebrating either their 20th or 30th anniversary of initial release this year — six from 1986 and seven from 1996 (the extra...
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople
“Hunt for the Wilderpeople” has a spring in its step. In some ways, it feels like the It natural evolution of writer / director Taika Waititi, after “Eagle v. Shark” (2009), “Boy” (2010) and “What We...
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Heartland: Jasper Jones
For tickets and show times, please click here. There seem to be two things that I’m a sucker for: coming-of-age stories and murder mysteries. Whether they’re combined or separated, I’m usually open...
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
It seems that, as far as I can tell, people will never get sick of coming of age stories. Whether it’s about high schoolers dealing with their peers and their thoughts about the future, kids going...
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Shazam!
Shazam! features a long-standing superhero as old as the likes of the dark knight and the man of steel, having been created back in 1939. There was even a point where his comics outsold those of...
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Booksmart
Booksmart stands out from any other high-school/teen dramedy in that it takes the traditional formula we’ve seen countless times since the era of John Hughes and throws it completely out the window....
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Good Boys
Children get to swear and make jokes about sex, drugs, and alcohol for about 90 minutes. Not like we haven’t seen anything like it before, right? Joking aside, it was a real concern going into Gene...
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How to Build a Girl
The combination of coming-of-age stories and rock music seems to be an easy mix, especially if you’re Richard Linklater. Whether it’s 1978’s “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” or even 2009’s “Pirate Radio,”...
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