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Awix (3310 KP) rated Moxie (2021) in Movies
Mar 28, 2021
Superior Netflix high-school comedy-drama. A teenage girl is provoked into starting a feminist club at her high school and resist the double-standards she sees everywhere. (There are jokes, too.)
Sounds like another crashingly didactic piece of post-Weinstein agitprop, but director Amy Poehler is smart enough to mix a little more grit and nuance into the formula. There are still things about the movie which grate slightly - the female principal of the school is almost comically indifferent, there's a rather-too-glib piece of plotting about a rape, and the demonisation of white men is surely problematic - but this is subtle and funny and occasionally sweet and tender, and you do care about the characters and their situations. The film is insightful enough to imply that even if an injustice is brazen and obvious, it doesn't necessarily follow that the solution to it is straightforward. This is an openly feminist film with an axe to grind, but still an accessible piece of entertainment.
Sounds like another crashingly didactic piece of post-Weinstein agitprop, but director Amy Poehler is smart enough to mix a little more grit and nuance into the formula. There are still things about the movie which grate slightly - the female principal of the school is almost comically indifferent, there's a rather-too-glib piece of plotting about a rape, and the demonisation of white men is surely problematic - but this is subtle and funny and occasionally sweet and tender, and you do care about the characters and their situations. The film is insightful enough to imply that even if an injustice is brazen and obvious, it doesn't necessarily follow that the solution to it is straightforward. This is an openly feminist film with an axe to grind, but still an accessible piece of entertainment.
CandyZane (19 KP) rated The Catcher in the Rye in Books
Sep 1, 2017
High school read
I first read this in High school as required reading. It was on the banned book list. No one seems to know that even existed today. Well it did. and this book was on there. But I had a great English teacher who made us read it and my mom whole heartedly approved. Good ol' mom and my teacher. This is a timeless classic, with a lot of childhood nostalgia. Make your teens read it, read it with them, and do a book review at home. This will help your kids understand the English language, give insight into reading comprehension, and is very interesting actually.
Joey Santiago recommended Harvest by Neil Young in Music (curated)
saheffernan (157 KP) rated Such a Fun Age in Books
Mar 24, 2020
Contains spoilers, click to show
This book had a topic that had drawn me in and I had high hopes for. Halfway through the book it seemed as if I had started reading an almost entirely different book. The dialogue and parts of the story had seemed to fall apart.
The only character I cared about only partially was Emira and her charge Briar. They had a cute relationship that did seem to grow. That however is the only part of the story that had growth. Alix had a white savior complex that was shown again and again leaving me feel disgusted while reading. After accusing her ex boyfriend from high school and Emira's current boyfriend of fetishizing black people and culture. The story then became about a successful women throwing everything away to get back at her high school boyfriend instead of the topic in which the book started out with.
In the end it just left me feeling gross, and sad for how these people had acted.
The only character I cared about only partially was Emira and her charge Briar. They had a cute relationship that did seem to grow. That however is the only part of the story that had growth. Alix had a white savior complex that was shown again and again leaving me feel disgusted while reading. After accusing her ex boyfriend from high school and Emira's current boyfriend of fetishizing black people and culture. The story then became about a successful women throwing everything away to get back at her high school boyfriend instead of the topic in which the book started out with.
In the end it just left me feeling gross, and sad for how these people had acted.
Tracy Davis Stoyer (2 KP) rated Dorothy Must Die in Books
Dec 25, 2017
A great read for young adults!!
While this may drag in some places for adults, this is a great book for young adults. It’s very popular in our high school library. The students love following a modern day twist to the original Wizard of Oz. So popular we have a hard time keeping it on the shelf.
Revisions (2019)
Daisuke Toujima is a second-year high school student who was abducted when he was young. He was involved in a special phenomenon called Shibuya Drift with his childhood friends Gai, Ru, Marimari, and Keisaku. They were transferred to the center of Shibuya over 300 years into the future.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9522354/plotsummary?item=ps4309999
Daisuke Toujima is a second-year high school student who was abducted when he was young. He was involved in a special phenomenon called Shibuya Drift with his childhood friends Gai, Ru, Marimari, and Keisaku. They were transferred to the center of Shibuya over 300 years into the future.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9522354/plotsummary?item=ps4309999
Peter G. (247 KP) rated Whiplash (2014) in Movies
Jun 5, 2019
This movie introduces us to newcomer Miles Teller as a high school drummer under the guidance of maniacal music teacher who thinks nothing of shredding pupils confidence in themselves as an excuse to get the best out of them with sometimes grave consequences as they are pushed to the very edge, not to be missed.
Eleanor (1463 KP) rated One of us is Lying in Books
Apr 21, 2020
Really not my cuppa tea way too much teen drama and too predictable.
The cliches just kept on coming, although if the whole high school teen drama is your bag I did find the writing better then some I've not bothered to make it to the end of. Not much in the way of a mystery though.
The cliches just kept on coming, although if the whole high school teen drama is your bag I did find the writing better then some I've not bothered to make it to the end of. Not much in the way of a mystery though.
Mike Birbiglia recommended Metropolitan (1990) in Movies (curated)
