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 Pitch: Meaner Than “Mean Girls.” Hotter Than “Heathers.” Better Than Barbenheimer.
I feel like kind of a basic bitch recommending “Jawbreaker” for After Dark. Don’t get me wrong: Darren Stein’s fiendishly messed-up mean girl movie from 1999 is absolutely worth canonizing as one of the all-time great midnight movies, and generally speaking, I’ll find — and use — any excuse to rewatch this camp masterpiece faster than Carol Kane can say, “Be nice, girls.”
But it feels borderline obvious to suggest this bonafide cult classic and ode to candy-coated cruelty, widely...
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 Pitch: Meaner Than “Mean Girls.” Hotter Than “Heathers.” Better Than Barbenheimer.
I feel like kind of a basic bitch recommending “Jawbreaker” for After Dark. Don’t get me wrong: Darren Stein’s fiendishly messed-up mean girl movie from 1999 is absolutely worth canonizing as one of the all-time great midnight movies, and generally speaking, I’ll find — and use — any excuse to rewatch this camp masterpiece faster than Carol Kane can say, “Be nice, girls.”
But it feels borderline obvious to suggest this bonafide cult classic and ode to candy-coated cruelty, widely...
- 8/5/2023
- by Alison Foreman and Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
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The ’90s might just be the biggest and best decade when it comes to showcasing high school hierarchies om film. Rom-coms featuring rich and popular teens, football jocks, and the lonely outcast struggling to fit in come to mind, along with memorable fashions.
The ’90s was also a time where filmmaking evolved. From genetically engineered extinct species suddenly roaming the earth, to choreographed fight scenes and explosions, and alien invasions threatening life as we know it, the ’90s brought a new level of cinematic genius as high quality graphics and new directorial styles emerged.
Below, find a roundup of ’90s films to add to your Blu-ray collection. Need more ’90s content? Check out...
The ’90s might just be the biggest and best decade when it comes to showcasing high school hierarchies om film. Rom-coms featuring rich and popular teens, football jocks, and the lonely outcast struggling to fit in come to mind, along with memorable fashions.
The ’90s was also a time where filmmaking evolved. From genetically engineered extinct species suddenly roaming the earth, to choreographed fight scenes and explosions, and alien invasions threatening life as we know it, the ’90s brought a new level of cinematic genius as high quality graphics and new directorial styles emerged.
Below, find a roundup of ’90s films to add to your Blu-ray collection. Need more ’90s content? Check out...
- 9/8/2021
- by Angel Saunders
- Indiewire
” I killed Liz. I killed the teen dream. Deal with it.”
Jawbreaker (1999) screens Wednesday, February 7th at 8pm at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, Mo 63143) as part of Webster University’s Award-Winning Strange Brew Film Series. Admission is $5.
What happens when you take the movie Heathers, sprinkle on some Clueless, add a pinch of Carrie, and throw in Pam Grier for good measure? Well, you get the movie Jawbreaker, a forgotten movie from 1999 ripe for rediscovery.
Courtney(Rose Mcgowan), Julie (Rebecca Gayheart),Marcie(Julie Benz) and Liz(Charlotte Ayanna) were the most popular girls at school. But on Liz’s 17th birthday, her friends want to surprise her and kidnap her. But that plan goes wrong, when accidently, Liz chokes on the jawbreaker that her friends stuffed in her mouth to keep her from screaming. Everyone is totally shocked, except cold-hearted Courtney, who just...
Jawbreaker (1999) screens Wednesday, February 7th at 8pm at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, Mo 63143) as part of Webster University’s Award-Winning Strange Brew Film Series. Admission is $5.
What happens when you take the movie Heathers, sprinkle on some Clueless, add a pinch of Carrie, and throw in Pam Grier for good measure? Well, you get the movie Jawbreaker, a forgotten movie from 1999 ripe for rediscovery.
Courtney(Rose Mcgowan), Julie (Rebecca Gayheart),Marcie(Julie Benz) and Liz(Charlotte Ayanna) were the most popular girls at school. But on Liz’s 17th birthday, her friends want to surprise her and kidnap her. But that plan goes wrong, when accidently, Liz chokes on the jawbreaker that her friends stuffed in her mouth to keep her from screaming. Everyone is totally shocked, except cold-hearted Courtney, who just...
- 3/1/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: North American deal among those concluded.
Montreal-based Seville International has licensed territory rights to Slavko Martinov’s feelgood documentary Pecking Order, which premiered at Hot Docs in May and will screen in competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival later this month.
Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North America, while Lemon Tree will distribute in China, and Discovery Film releases in the former Yugoslavia.
Pecking Order trains its sights on the competitive poultry pageantry scene as a group of chicken enthusiasts vie for the crown at the New Zealand National Poultry Show.
The film follows members of the Christchurch Poultry, Pigeon and Bantam Club as they bid to win the nationals despite decades of infighting that threatens to tear the 148-year old club apart.
“It’s great to have Freestyle Digital Media take the film under its wing – they will get flying results I am sure,” Seville International senior vice-president of international sales Anick Poirier said. “We...
Montreal-based Seville International has licensed territory rights to Slavko Martinov’s feelgood documentary Pecking Order, which premiered at Hot Docs in May and will screen in competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival later this month.
Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North America, while Lemon Tree will distribute in China, and Discovery Film releases in the former Yugoslavia.
Pecking Order trains its sights on the competitive poultry pageantry scene as a group of chicken enthusiasts vie for the crown at the New Zealand National Poultry Show.
The film follows members of the Christchurch Poultry, Pigeon and Bantam Club as they bid to win the nationals despite decades of infighting that threatens to tear the 148-year old club apart.
“It’s great to have Freestyle Digital Media take the film under its wing – they will get flying results I am sure,” Seville International senior vice-president of international sales Anick Poirier said. “We...
- 6/8/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Jawbreaker is coming to the small screen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, E! is developing a new TV series based on the 1999 film.From writer and director Darren Stein, the dark comedy follows a clique of popular high school girls who accidentally kill their friend during a birthday prank. The film's cast includes Rose McGowan, Julie Benz, Rebecca Gayheart, Judy Greer, and Charlotte Ayanna.Read More…...
- 2/18/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Directed by Michael Radford, Dancing at the Blue Iguana tells the stories of five women who work as pole dancers at the ‘Blue Iguana’ club in Los Angeles. Played by Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Tilly, Sheila Kelley, Charlotte Ayanna and Sandra Oh, the women all have complex, issue-ridden lives beyond their status as exotic dancers. The two-hour long film was developed from a series of improvisation workshops and it is the reliance on improvisation, rather than a strong script and firm sense of direction, that is the crux of the problems with this film.
The use of improvisation is not new, with the British director Mike Leigh as perhaps the best known for its use. Leigh’s use of improvisation, however, works because he uses it sparingly and at the rehearsal stage in order to allow his cast to develop their characters. Leigh says, “That last scene in Secrets and Lies,...
The use of improvisation is not new, with the British director Mike Leigh as perhaps the best known for its use. Leigh’s use of improvisation, however, works because he uses it sparingly and at the rehearsal stage in order to allow his cast to develop their characters. Leigh says, “That last scene in Secrets and Lies,...
- 6/9/2011
- Shadowlocked
The 1999 cult classic ‘Jawbreaker’ is set to be released on Blu-ray by Image Entertainment. The black comedy high school satire, which was in part based on ‘Heathers,’ follows the four popular female characters, Courtney Shayne (played by Rose McGowan), Marcie Fox (portrayed by Julie Benz), Julie Freedman (played by Rebecca Gayheart) and Elizabeth Purr (portrayed by Charlotte Ayanna), as they get ready for their senior prom. After Julie is accidentally killed during a prank in which she gagged on a jawbreaker, the remaining three girls try to cover up the murder. They even accept the unpopular Fern (played by Judy Greer), who discovered Elizabeth’s death, into their clique to...
- 4/28/2011
- by karen
- ShockYa
Nickel Palace
"Stealing Time" suffers from an identity crisis. Is it a story about the entertainment industry's underbelly of underappreciated drones and wannabe stars? Is it a heist movie? Or is it what it feels like much of the time -- a calling card to the industry from young, connected filmmakers and several actors?
If the latter is the case, then "Stealing Time" achieves modest success. There is certainly talent on display here, but their work fails to come together into a coherent entertainment. The lead actors are all attractive and charismatic. Just their characters are a drag: A year out of college, no one has achieved instant success, which leaves everyone quite bitter.
So these grads, who have a hard time coping with real life, decide to take a short cut: They plan a bank robbery. The instigator, Alex (Peter Facinelli), an assistant to a Hollywood agent from hell, learns that a brain tumor will cut his life short, so he has little to lose. Those with more at stake include Trevor (Ethan Embry), an actor who blows every audition; Sam (Charlotte Ayanna), who wants to be a social worker; and Casey (Scott Foley), an emotional basket case when he learns of his young son's death.
Director Marc Fusco, who wrote the script with co-producer Michael Garrity, proves better at delineating the ups and downs of young people struggling to achieve their goals than the details of a heist. The bank robbery is never convincing, especially since it features costumes more suitable to a junior high school play than a dangerous holdup.
Major contributions come from Stephen Sheridan's sharp, inventive cinematography and Joey Newman's lively musical score.
"Stealing Time" suffers from an identity crisis. Is it a story about the entertainment industry's underbelly of underappreciated drones and wannabe stars? Is it a heist movie? Or is it what it feels like much of the time -- a calling card to the industry from young, connected filmmakers and several actors?
If the latter is the case, then "Stealing Time" achieves modest success. There is certainly talent on display here, but their work fails to come together into a coherent entertainment. The lead actors are all attractive and charismatic. Just their characters are a drag: A year out of college, no one has achieved instant success, which leaves everyone quite bitter.
So these grads, who have a hard time coping with real life, decide to take a short cut: They plan a bank robbery. The instigator, Alex (Peter Facinelli), an assistant to a Hollywood agent from hell, learns that a brain tumor will cut his life short, so he has little to lose. Those with more at stake include Trevor (Ethan Embry), an actor who blows every audition; Sam (Charlotte Ayanna), who wants to be a social worker; and Casey (Scott Foley), an emotional basket case when he learns of his young son's death.
Director Marc Fusco, who wrote the script with co-producer Michael Garrity, proves better at delineating the ups and downs of young people struggling to achieve their goals than the details of a heist. The bank robbery is never convincing, especially since it features costumes more suitable to a junior high school play than a dangerous holdup.
Major contributions come from Stephen Sheridan's sharp, inventive cinematography and Joey Newman's lively musical score.
- 10/6/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NYPD Blue's Esai Morales, Santa Barbara's A. Martinez and La Bamba's Rosanna DeSoto lead the ensemble cast of the Cinematropical Pictures romantic comedy Isla Bella. Being directed by Matia Karrell, Isla Bella is set on an island paradise and revolves around a dictator whose daughter is a week away from marriage when she injures a villager with her car. As she helps nurse the man back to health, he begins to give her second thoughts about her upcoming marriage. Rounding out the film's ensemble cast are Charlotte Ayanna (Training Day), Valeria (Just Married), Michael Irby (Pinero), Kuno Becker and Cristian de la Fuente (Basic). Based on a Reuben Gonzalez script, Bella is being produced by Scott Rosenfelt, with Ande Hecht Endewardt and Stacia Sekuler Miehe of Trailopolis Entertainment serving as co-executive producers. The film will shoot this month in Miami.
- 5/16/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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