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Movie: Easy A

[TRAILER] Prompted by her popular best friend to spill details of her boring weekend, Olive (Emma Stone), a clean-cut teen, decides to spice things up by telling a little lie about losing her virginity. When the high-school busybody (Amanda Bynes) overhears the conversation and spreads it all over campus, Olive is suddenly notorious but for the wrong reasons. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 15, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Jennifer's Body

[TRAILER] When a demon takes possession of her, high-school hottie Jennifer (Megan Fox) turns a hungry eye on guys who never stood a chance with her before. While evil Jennifer satisfies her appetite for human flesh with the school's male population, her nerdy friend, Needy (Amanda Seyfried), learns what's happening and vows to put an end to the carnage. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 13, 2024 - 8 comments

Movie: Lisa Frankenstein

[TRAILER] 80's teen misfit Lisa (Kathryn Newton) struggles with a new school and a new family when her dad remarries. She clashes with overbearing, Jazzercising stepmom (Carla Gugino) while her super-positive cheerleader stepsister Taffy (Liza Soberano) tries to change her social standing, but Lisa would rather spend her nights in a cemetery. Her favorite pastime: taking care of the grave of a pianist who died by suicide in 1837. After a deeply humiliating experience at a party, Lisa goes to her happy place and says the somewhat magical words, “I wish I was with you.” A few well-placed lightning bolts later, the mud-covered Victorian-era corpse (Cole Sprouse) is lumbering into her house, becoming the companion she needs, but also kicking off a murder spree. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 11, 2024 - 8 comments

Movie: Palo Alto

[TRAILER] Shy, sensitive April (Emma Roberts) is the class virgin, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach Mr. B (James Franco) and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy (Jack Kilmer). Meanwhile, Emily (Zoe Levin) offers sexual favors to every boy to cross her path--including both Teddy and his best friend Fred (Nat Wolff), a live wire without filters or boundaries. As one high school party bleeds into the next--and April and Teddy struggle to admit their mutual affection--Fred's escalating recklessness starts to spiral into chaos. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 6, 2023 - 6 comments

Movie: Blackboard Jungle

[TRAILER] World War II veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) takes a teaching position at a rough New York City school for boys. The staff warns him that the students are nearly impossible to control, but the optimistic Richard remains unfazed. Soon, though, he realizes that his class isn't merely rowdy -- they can be downright dangerous. The students, led by the thuggish Artie West (Vic Morrow), threaten their teacher and his family with violence, yet Richard refuses to give up on the troubled teens. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 6, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: Jawbreaker

[TRAILER} When an exclusive clique of teenage socialites accidentally murders their best friend, Liz (Charlotte Ayanna), on the morning of her birthday, the three girls responsible -- Courtney (Rose McGowan), Julie (Rebecca Gayheart) and Marcie (Julie Benz) -- conspire to hide the truth. As the trio make over nerdy reject Fern Mayo (Judy Greer) and groom her to take Liz's place, crack police Detective Vera Cruz (Pam Grier) launches an investigation that will turn Reagan High School upside down. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 6, 2023 - 2 comments

Movie: All Cheerleaders Die

[TRAILER} When tragedy rocks Blackfoot High, rebellious outsider Maddy Killian shocks the student body by joining the cheerleading squad. After a confrontation with the football team, Maddy and her new cheerleader friends are sent on a supernatural roller coaster ride which leaves a path of destruction none of them may be able to escape. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 6, 2023 - 0 comments

Movie: House Party

[TRAILER] Young Kid has been invited to a party at the home of his friend Play. But after a fight at school, Kid's father grounds him. None the less, Kid sneaks out when his father falls asleep. But Kid doesn't know that three of the thugs at school have decided to give him a lesson in behavior. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 6, 2023 - 3 comments

School Spirits: School Spirits (all episodes)  Season 1, Ep 0

Maddie is a high-school sleuth investigating a disappearance at her school. The only problem is: She's dead, and the murder she's investigating is her own. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by Ben Trismegistus on May 23, 2023 - 14 comments

Movie: My Old School

In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Nov 20, 2022 - 4 comments

All of Us Are Dead: Full Season (2022)  Season 1, Ep 12

A high school becomes ground zero for a zombie virus outbreak. Trapped students must fight their way out or turn into one of the rabid infected. IMDB 7.5 rating [more inside]
posted by kbar1 on Oct 29, 2022 - 4 comments

Movie: Metal Lords

For teenage misfits Hunter and Kevin, the path to glory is clear: Devote themselves to metal. Win Battle of the Bands. And be worshipped like gods. [more inside]
posted by COD on Jun 14, 2022 - 5 comments

Twenty Five Twenty One: Twenty Five Twenty One  Season 1, Ep 0

In a time when dreams seem out of reach, a teen fencer pursues big ambitions and meets a hardworking young man who seeks to rebuild his life. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Apr 3, 2022 - 6 comments

Movie: Audible

Football player Amaree McKenstry-Hall and his Maryland School for the Deaf teammates attempt to defend their winning streak while coming to terms with the tragic loss of a close friend. [more inside]
posted by drlith on Mar 1, 2022 - 1 comment

Yellowjackets: Season Finale  Season 1, Ep 10

On the night of their 25-year class reunion, the Yellowjackets navigate damning evidence, false alibis and a dubious attempt to “heal.” In the wilderness, the Doomcoming fallout finds everything firmly off the rails as simmering resentments come to a head. [more inside]
posted by Stanczyk on Jan 16, 2022 - 53 comments

Yellowjackets: Doomcoming  Season 1, Ep 9

You are cordially invited to The Doomcoming. On the brink of death, the Yellowjackets opt to throw one last rager before careening into oblivion. An increasingly paranoid Shauna struggles between keeping her cool and being Shauna. [more inside]
posted by Stanczyk on Jan 9, 2022 - 26 comments

Yellowjackets: Flight of the Bumblebee  Season 1, Ep 8

What is madness and what is divine? While in triage after a vicious attack, the Yellowjackets are left to suss out the best of their worst ideas. Shauna dabbles in some light cyberstalking. Wait, what about that airplane? [more inside]
posted by Stanczyk on Jan 2, 2022 - 38 comments

Movie: Lucas

A precocious fourteen-year-old experiences heartbreak for the first time. [more inside]
posted by Stuka on Feb 19, 2021 - 2 comments

Book: Suggested Reading

High School senior and bookworm Clara got to school early on the first day of her senior year because she volunteers in the library. She discovers that over the summer the tony private school she attends has banned 50 books, including her very favorite book by her favorite author, which she has just stayed up all night reading before getting zero sleep and coming to school. So Clara does the only logical thing, she starts an underground library loaning those books from her locker. [more inside]
posted by COD on Jan 23, 2021 - 1 comment

Movie: Selah and The Spades

Five factions run the underground life of Haldwell School, a prestigious east coast boarding school. At the head of the most powerful faction - The Spades - sits Selah Summers, walking the fine line between being feared and loved. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Jul 9, 2020 - 1 comment

Roswell, New Mexico: Smells Like Teen Spirit  Season 1, Ep 6

In a series of flashbacks to 2008, secrets are uncovered about Rosa's final day, Isobel's mysterious blackouts and Alex and Michael's relationship in high school. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Feb 27, 2019 - 3 comments

Movie: Anna and the Apocalypse

A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other. [more inside]
posted by larrybob on Dec 13, 2018 - 7 comments

Sharp Objects: Cherry  Season 1, Ep 6

Adora provides Chief Vickery with a key piece of evidence in the Ann Nash murder case; Richard probes for details about Camille's dark past; John's girlfriend, Ashley, looks to make news for herself; Amma bonds with Camille during and after a wild party. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Aug 16, 2018 - 13 comments

Plus Ultra! (My Hero Academia Interest Post)

Wondering if there's enough people watching My Hero Academia (currently available on crunchyroll [memail me if you want a guest pass]). If you don't know it's an anime about a superhero high school in Japan. It looks at themes of what it means to be a hero (and a villain) in a world filled with super powers. [more inside]
posted by runcibleshaw on Jun 6, 2018 - 7 comments

Movie: Carrie

Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on May 4, 2018 - 6 comments

Movie: My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea

Dash Shaw's stunningly animated feature in which an earthquake causes a high school to slide off the coast into the sea, where it slowly beings to sink like a shipwreck. Can Dash save his himself, his friendship, and the school that never seemed to care for him? Starring Jason Schwartzman, Reggie Watts, Lena Dunham, Maya Rudolph, Alex Karpovsky, and Susan Sarandon. [more inside]
posted by Krazor on Mar 22, 2018 - 4 comments

Eyeshield 21: "The Man with the Lightspeed Legs!"  Season 1, Ep 1

We are introduced to Sena and Mamori! Best friends where a romantic intersection is kinda unthinkable. I mean, it hurts just to think about it. And that's where the genius in this starts. o yeah this is a sports anime about highschool American Grid Iron Football in Tokyo played between public and private schools [more inside]
posted by Slap*Happy on Feb 14, 2018 - 0 comments

Veronica Mars: Meet John Smith  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 3

Things really get moving here. Veronica gets hired to track down a classmate's long-lost (or dead?) father, enlists Wallace to start taking records from the office, dates Troy, and tries to get to the bottom of the mystery around her own mother. Oh, and what kind of medication is Duncan really taking? [more inside]
posted by rikschell on Oct 4, 2017 - 2 comments

Veronica Mars: Credit Where Credit's Due  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 2

Veronica investigates credit card fraud. We see Weevil in a more sympathetic light. Logan is an ass (Logan is always an ass), but Troy seems nice, right? And, oh yeah, a role for Paris Hilton... [more inside]
posted by rikschell on Sep 26, 2017 - 6 comments

Veronica Mars: Pilot  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 1

Introductions all around! Veronica Mars is a junior at Neptune High, formerly popular with the rich kids, now an outcast. Her best friend was killed, her boyfriend dumped her, she was roofied. Her father used to be Sheriff, but now he's a private eye, and Veronica helps him while solving her own high-school drama mysteries. This week's episode introduces Wallace, a new student at Neptune who is targeted by the local biker gang. Veronica Mars was first broadcast in 2004, just after Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended, and in a lot of ways it directly took up the mantle of kick-ass blonde high school girl empowerment. Never a ratings success, it was a critical darling from the start. [more inside]
posted by rikschell on Sep 18, 2017 - 13 comments

American Vandal: A Parody of Deep Dive Documentaries: AV Club Investigates Vandalism  Season 1, Ep 0

When the class troublemaker is blamed for the spraypainting of dicks on every car in the faculty parking lot, two intrepid reporters from the school's morning announcement program tear apart the case against him in this eight part mockumentary. Produced for Netflix and very reminiscent of it's Making a Murderer, this spot on parody of long form investigative docmunetaries distinguishes itself by allowing its characters to grow beyond the stereotypes of nerds, jocks, and burnouts. At some point after the first few episodes you realize it stopped being just a comedy and has become as complex and asorbing a mystery as the documentaries its meant to mock. [more inside]
posted by Stanczyk on Sep 17, 2017 - 19 comments

Riverdale: Body Double  Books Included   Season 1, Ep 3

In the third "chapter" of Riverdale, Cheryl comes clean about when she last saw Jason, Betty and Jughead investigate Jason's death, while Veronica goes "full dark, no stars" to get revenge for herself and others.
posted by filthy light thief on Feb 14, 2017 - 11 comments

Riverdale: A Touch of Evil  Books Included   Season 1, Ep 2

Betty isn't sure who to argue with and who to be nice to, so doles a little of each out to everyone. Veronica apologizes with flowers, cupcakes, and mani-pedis. Josie & the Pussycats rock out while the cheerleaders perform. [more inside]
posted by Margalo Epps on Feb 3, 2017 - 24 comments

Movie: Rock 'n' Roll High School

Rock 'n' roll kids plot to take down their school's fascist administration with a little help from the Ramones. Streaming video available for the moment only on YouTube. [more inside]
posted by Sheydem-tants on Nov 28, 2015 - 2 comments

Movie: The Best of Times

A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Oct 18, 2014 - 3 comments

In the Flesh: Episode 2  Season 2, Ep 2

Kieren's attempt to leave for France are dashed by Maxine's imposition of an Undead travel ban, and the formation of the PDS "Give Back" scheme. There's high school drama with Jem her young class-mates, an undead party (complete with mood-altering ... substances), and Jem reconnects with Gary.
posted by filthy light thief on Jun 26, 2014 - 1 comment

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