Tag: Heathers
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‘Jawbreaker’ Is the Perfect Candy-Coated ‘Barbie’ Chaser — and a Venomous Midnight Movie Snack
On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.The…
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The Daily Stream: Heathers: The Musical Is Finally Available On Streaming? How Very!
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Production: “Heathers: The Musical”Where You Can Stream It: The Roku ChannelThe Pitch: In 1988, director Michael Lehmann, armed with a deeply satirical script by Daniel Waters…
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Selah and the Spades review – the seedy side of an ivy-covered high school
This uncanny story of preppy drug dealers has a touch of Heathers and a bit of Bret Easton Ellis, and an intriguing take on what high school is really likeTayarisha Poe, like her partial namesake, has a gift for the uncanny. She is the photographer and film-maker behind this feature debut, which began as an…
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My favourite film aged 12: Mean Girls
Continuing our series in which writers revisit childhood movie passions, we revisit Tina Fey’s endlessly quotable teen comedy – or was it really a horror?• The best arts and entertainment during self-isolationThe thing about being a teenage girl and having a favourite film that’s also about teenage girls is that even if you’re very pretentious…
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‘Be More Chill’ Represents the Positive Power of Fandom Gone Right
Throughout early 2017, I constantly listened to musical soundtracks on YouTube, from Hamilton, to Heathers, to The Great Comet of 1812. Somehow, the YouTube Autoplay involuntarily recommended a number that I was not familiar with: “More Than Survive.” It was from a musical called Be More Chill. I thought, how did I, a musical theatre…
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Cannes Film Review: ‘Vivarium’
Ah, the suburbs. The rec rooms and Formica kitchens and manicured lawns. The cozy suffocating middle-class conformity. The way they once stood for everything that was worth rebelling against. For decades, the suburbs have been the ultimate cheap-shot movie punchline — not just a location but a state of mind, a place to thumb our…
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Heathers – cool kids cult hit even more surreal 30 years on
Winona Ryder and Christian Slater return in this rerelease of a strange and shocking tale of high-school cruelty and bloodshed‘Oh my god I can’t believe it! I just killed my best friend!” “And your worst enemy!” “Same difference!” These phrases are part of the bizarre, vindictive and paranoid teenage world of Heathers, featuring the meanest…
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Michael Lehmann on the legacy of his cult teen film Heathers
While some of the taboo-busting elements of the Winona Ryder-starring film have not aged well, much of its toxicity still resonatesAny doubts about whether Heathers still appeals to people 30 years after its release were answered by a recent trip to Heathers: The Musical. I’m old enough to remember seeing Heathers in the cinema in…
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Netflix and ’13 Reasons Why’ Can Learn From Paramount Network Scrapping the ‘Heathers’ Reboot
[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “13 Reasons Why” Season 2 and general plot points from the unaired “Heathers” series.]On Friday, Paramount Network had told IndieWire that the “Heathers” series reboot has been dropped completely from the channel before it even had the chance to air. The news was first reported by THR.The decision…
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‘Heathers’ Series Premiere Delayed in Wake of Parkland School Shooting
Paramount Network has put plans to premiere “Heathers” next week on hold. A modern remake of the ‘80s film was originally scheduled to debut on March 7, but Paramount Net said the channel opted to delay the show in the wake of the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida.The network issued at statement on Wednesday:Paramount…