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Mid90s ** (2018, Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jonah Hill’s intense and edgy 2018 coming of age drama Mid90s stars Sunny Suljic as out-of-control 13-year-old Stevie, a Nineties-era Los Angeles kid who spends his summer breaking away from his troubled home life with […]

Apr, 14

Skate Kitchen **** (2018, Rachelle Vinberg, Nina Moran, Jaden Smith) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Crystal Moselle’s vibrant and alive Skate Kitchen (2018) boasts a rich, dynamic and truthful performance by Rachelle Vinberg as Camille, a lonely 18-year-old Long Island suburban teenaged skateboarder who makes friends with a posse of girl […]

Aug, 13

Gleaming the Cube *** (1989, Christian Slater, Steven Bauer) – Classic Movie Review 1597

Director Graeme Clifford’s rumbustious 1989 teen thriller provides an exuberantly entertaining youth-vibe showcase for the 20-year-old Christian Slater as Brian Kelly, a canny ace skateboarding teenage tearaway who skates off with his equally canny skateboard buddies to […]

Aug, 27

Dogtown and Z-Boys **** (2001, dir Stacy Peralta) – Classic Movie Review 1494

‘ ‘Old man, look at your life,’ sings Neil Young on the fantastic vintage 70s soundtrack, and here we go. Narrated by Sean Penn, co-writer/director Stacy Peralta’s skateboarding documentary is an exhilarating experience, with pioneering 1970s […]

Jul, 30

Lords of Dogtown *** (2005, Heath Ledger, Emil Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, John Robinson, Michael Angarano) – Classic Movie Review 1493

Heath Ledger seems to doing a bad Val Kilmer impression as youth guru-like Skip Engblom, co-proprietor of the Zephyr beach sports shop in Venice, California, during the 1970s, in writer Stacy Peralta’s dramatisation of his […]

Jul, 30

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