1999 Was The Pinnacle For The Dark Teen Comedy. Then It Disappeared.
As the Halloween dance rages — a gymnasium of high schoolers in cheap costumes bouncing around to the sounds of The Offspring — one teen arrives with murder on the…
The Steady Cultural Demise Of ‘American Beauty’
When “American Beauty” nabbed the Oscar for Best Picture in March 2000, its win seemed forward-thinking. The movie “dealt with sex and drugs, blackmail, homophobia, infidelity and suburban dysfunction,” producer…