Reality shapes the movies, and the movies reshape reality, which makes its way back into film. In the 1950s, for instance, widespread dismay, sensational media coverage and even congressional hearings ...
In a way harsh takedown of the formative 1985 teen movie “The Breakfast Club,” New Yorker critic Pauline Kael took aim at one of the genre’s most enduring tropes: the misunderstood teen. It’s an ...