Children's literature has a tradition of telling this story, although the protagonist is more often a girl. From The Wizard of Oz to The Secret Garden, books and movies aimed at young adolescents have often addressed the transition from childhood to adulthood through the metaphor of magical powers. Harry ...
"I think only stupid people have good relationships," explains Enid (Thora Birch), the teenage cynic at the heart of Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World. From the way she talks, you would think she had cornered the market on marginality. And she seems to think so, too, until she meets up with a socially maladjusted ...
There is only so much that a critic can say when reviewing a piece of, um, cinema like Scary Movie 2. A brief recap of what the movie is trying to do, how well it succeeds, its shortcomings — that's about all that this type of film leaves room for. This is not Shakespeare. It's dumb, juvenile, gross-out ...
