Skins: Volume 1 (review)

Oh, I’m so glad I do not have a teenage child, because if I did I’d have to lock it in a room with no windows and me with the only key. Holy crap, is this really what all the kids today are up to?

Towelhead (review)

That extreme rarity of American film: a movie that is about a teenage girl’s fumblings through the confusions of early adolescence…

Kidulthood (review)

Before he was Mickey “the idiot” Smith on *Doctor Who* — though not long before — actor Noel Clarke wrote a script for a movie about how urban London teenagers really live.

Sunday School Musical (review)

Oh, for shame! How Christian is theft? Not very — isn’t one of their Big Rules against it? This direct-to-DVD flick is a bald-faced attempt to latch onto the phenom that is *High School Musical*…

Twilight (review)

It’s like an actual grownup movie, all serious and important. Like you can tell how beautiful the vampires are supposed to be because everything gets slow and sparkly when they walk by — and I mean even when they’re not in sunlight LOL!

Role Models (review)

There’s something sad and pathetic about a movie character with more dignity and self-respect for himself than for the movie he’s in has for him. He’s like a cold and bedraggled puppy lured in from the rain who gets kicked in the teeth while he’s warming himself by the fire. Such is the fate of *Role Model*’s Augie Farks, played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse…