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Flashback-fueled hip-hop nostalgia gets lost in The Wood

By Glenn Gaslin
Jul 22, 1999

First the good news: The title of the high school comedy/Gen X nostalgia flick The Wood is not, despite this summer's rash of double entendres, a dirty joke. The name's as earnest and literal as the film itself, and simply marks the setting as Inglewood, California, the Los Angeles 'burb...
Nookie Jar

Teen-themed American Pie offers up hilarious slice of life

By Glenn Gaslin
Jul 15, 1999

It's about time we had a talk. Yeah, you know, that talk. The one about how uncomfortable and strange it is to be a young human male, how raging and unforgiving the hormones, how fragile the ego, how mysterious the female form. You see, well, how do I say this?...
The Teen Commandments

Why Hollywood's high on children of the multiplex

By Glenn Gaslin
May 20, 1999

Good morning, kids, and welcome back to class. You may have noticed that a new student has joined us. Or, actually, quite a few new students. About 60 million, to take a quick guess. Say hi, everybody. Now, they might look familiar, they might look a little like the teenagers...
The Hype and the Mighty

Review-proof Star Wars prequel? Jedi set, go!

By Glenn Gaslin
May 20, 1999

Fans call it "that Star Wars feeling," the raw emotional high achieved by watching, or even just thinking about, the films of George Lucas. It's a sort of gut-swirling, swooning sensation, the effect of tripping on a fantasy world, a wonderland, a place unlike Earth or even the movies. And...
Finger-Nickin' Good

A disembodied thumbs-up for gory Idle Hands

By Glenn Gaslin
May 6, 1999

The most surprising thing about the new teensploitation horror film Idle Hands is the lack of masturbation jokes. It is a movie about a 17-year-old boy who loses control of his right hand to an evil demon, yet there's only one such obvious crack. As the gloriously lazy hero Anton...

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