Cinema Outcasts » High School http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts Movie reviews with an outcasted edge Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:43:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Assassination of a High School President http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/2009/10/assassination-of-a-high-school-president/ http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/2009/10/assassination-of-a-high-school-president/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:19:11 +0000 lefrenchie http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/?p=334 This comedy starring Bruce Willis and Mischa Barton is the tale of a Catholic high-school newspaper reporter who stumbles upon a disturbing conspiracy. Prompted by the most popular girl in school to investigate the theft of the SAT exams, an ambitious young fact-finder discovers that the school’s president — a disillusioned Gulf War veteran — and the top jock are responsible for the crime. As if this information wasn’t unsettling enough, it appears that both have been in operation under the direction of an even higher power.

Let’s face it… Despite being released in very selected theaters, this movie has been shelved by the studios, then released straight to dvd… despite the fact that Bruce Willis is amazing… Is this movie bad? Far from it… It’s not Citizen Kane or the Godfather, but in the same vein as Brick was a good neo-noir movie, and Veronica Mars a cult neo-noir phenomenon, Assassination of a High School President is a film noir that revolves around teenagers, in a dark crime convoluted story which is a great fun to see taking place…

]]> http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/2009/10/assassination-of-a-high-school-president/feed/ 2 Battle Royale http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/2009/10/battle-royale/ http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/2009/10/battle-royale/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:53:24 +0000 lefrenchie http://christianlind.com/cinemaoutcasts/?p=43 Welcome to the dark world of tomorrow, where the Japanese government proclaimed the Battle Royale Act, which is a Life lesson taught to high school seniors; every year a class is taken on a deserted island, and each student needs to survive by killing his classmates, and staying alive. This premise is probably the most sadistic yet brilliant fable of what the world has in store for us… If being in high school was bad enough, this tops it all: it’s time to see the true nature of relationships between classmates, and to settle old rivalries. Brilliantly executed film, with an exquisite Takeshi “Beat” Kitano as the class professor; this movie is really a delectable gore fest, with a cynical sense of humor that not anyone can enjoy.

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