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Soundtrack to Sixteen 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

13th March 2020 by Sarah Leave a Comment

16 year olds Maisy and Ben struggle with friendships and relationships while their upcoming AS levels loom over them It’s not true that you don’t remember your school exam results – I can reel off every single grade of mine, and that was so long ago they were called <dusts off parchment certificate illuminated by… Soundtrack to Sixteen Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: exams, friendships, relationships, teenagers

Faulty Roots (short film) Short Film 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

11th March 2020 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Two teens with different genetic conditions are forced to form a friendship. Ella Greenwood’s film – which she wrote, produced and directed when she was only 18 – is a sharp reminder that it’s easy to retain lingering prejudices about mental illness even when we think we’ve cast them aside. Greenwood plays Lola, a teenager… Faulty Roots (short film) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: depression, friendship, genetic condition, teenagers

UK DVD and digital release for festival favourite Giant Little Ones announced

20th December 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Giant Little Ones, which showed successfully at UK film festivals BFI Flare and Canada Now earlier this year, will be released by Lionsgate Home Entertainment in the UK next spring – on digital download on 3 February 2020 and on DVD on 10 February. The critically acclaimed (including by me!) coming of age drama was… UK DVD and digital release for festival favourite Giant Little Ones announced Read More

Filed Under: Film News Tagged With: AAA, coming of age, friendship, LGBTQ, teenagers

Booksmart 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

9th June 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Usually the kids in teen comedies leave me feeling incredibly old, but Booksmart‘s Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) seem even more middle-aged than me. They’re very clever, and very hard-working, and only have one day left at high school before graduation. That focus and drive means that even school Principal Brown (Jason Sudeikis)… Booksmart Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: feminism, graduation, high school, teenagers, women

Giant Little Ones (Canada Now Film Festival) 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

5th May 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

I’m baffled by modern adolescence, and can hardly believe myself that back in the ’80s mine was modern too. Luckily Keith Behrman’s film leaves me with a sense of hope for my own children’s upcoming teen years, which may have more in common with my own than I feared. In Giant Little Ones Behrman, who… Giant Little Ones (Canada Now Film Festival) Read More

Filed Under: Canada Now, Film Festivals, Film Reviews Tagged With: divorce, friendship, sexuality, teenagers

V (Short Film) Short Film 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

14th February 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Not everything you find on Google about vampires is true, says 16 year old Minnie ruefully: “I didn’t get fangs, I certainly didn’t develop some unearthly beauty!” she says as she sits in the kitchen of her flat drinking a bottle of blood she keeps in the fridge. Some things about vampires are true though,… V (Short Film) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Support Indie Film Tagged With: abuse, blood, teenagers, vampire

The influence of Instagram: interview with Jonathan Ignatius Green, director of acclaimed documentary “Social Animals”

4th February 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

“Almost every adult I’ve talked to about social media has remarked how glad they are that they didn’t have it when they were in high school. What does that say about our true feelings about this thing we’re all glued to?” Jonathan Ignatius Green’s thoughtful and highly entertaining documentary Social Animals, which premiered to great acclaim at… The influence of Instagram: interview with Jonathan Ignatius Green, director of acclaimed documentary “Social Animals” Read More

Filed Under: Interviews, Support Indie Film Tagged With: influencer, instagram, social media, teenagers, urban photographer

Social Animals 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

14th January 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

***  Check out my interview with Jonathan Ignatius Green, director of Social Animals *** There’s an arresting shot of 15 year old Kaylyn and her girlfriends on the beach, sitting in a row with their phones out. Someone has just noticed a whale in the surf, but it’s unclear whether they are all photographing the… Social Animals Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Support Indie Film Tagged With: instagram, Likes, social media, teenagers

Blockers 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

30th August 2018 by Sarah Leave a Comment

You say eggplant, I say aubergine. But while we are in some ways divided by a common language, emojis cross linguistic divides. Possibly not age divides though, as three parents struggle to translate their teenage daughters’ messages as they snoop on an accidentally open laptop. I’ll admit I was as baffled as them, and never… Blockers Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: parents, prom, sex, teenagers

2:Hrs 2.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

17th July 2018 by Sarah Leave a Comment

2:HRS is odd. Definitely quirky, sometimes befuddling, with lots left, intriguingly, hanging. At times it feels rather like one of those occasional Doctor Who episodes which has no Doctor in them, a sort-of sci fi tale set identifiably in the UK with ordinary people having to step up when life surprises them. Tim (Harry Jarvis) is… 2:Hrs Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: bucket list, death, graffiti, science, teenagers

Killing Of A Sacred Deer 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

8th November 2017 by Sarah Leave a Comment

The background sounds during key scenes in Killing Of A Sacred Deer – most of the time it isn’t really music – hugely reminded me of The Twilight Zone, and in many ways the film is like an extended, European cinema version of one of its episodes. This is certainly a movie that is hard… Killing Of A Sacred Deer Read More

Filed Under: Featured 2, Film Reviews Tagged With: bereavement, cardiology, psychosomatic illness, teenagers, Yorgos Lanthimos films

Super Dark Times (new York Film Festival 2017) 3.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

29th September 2017 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence. What do you do, after an afternoon with friends goes so badly wrong that someone gets… Super Dark Times (new York Film Festival 2017) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, New York Film Festival Tagged With: 1990s films, coming of age, death, teenagers

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