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How the Monkees Birthed New Hollywood

August 1, 2022

A rewatch benumbed to this flash and flare reveals the stark morbidity of Head. Throughout the movie the Monkees are assaulted, hunted, and caged. Words fail, fists fail. The film[…]

Drama · Youth

Peter Yates’ Breaking Away at 40: An Early Warning of America’s Culture War

October 26, 2018

Theirs is a passive outlook, young men products of a culture that for too many generations has grown to depend on a corporate entity, mistaking the mill for a permanent,[…]

Comedy · Digital · Drama · Youth

Coming of Digital Age: On Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade

August 31, 2018

In Eighth Grade, Burnham recognizes the pre-teen and teen landscape of 2018 is more intense, due to the pervasive influence of cell phones, voyeurism, self-promotion, and the unhealthy expectations brought[…]

Category: Youth

How the Monkees Birthed New Hollywood

Peter Yates’ Breaking Away at 40: An Early Warning of America’s Culture War

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Coming of Digital Age: On Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade

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