NDSU Spectrum: Movie review ‘Forrester’ recaptures the magic of ‘Good Will Hunting’ By JOHN HANSEN Jan. 19, 2001 In one of the after-school chats in “Finding Forrester,” student-athlete phenom Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) describes William […]
NDSU Spectrum: Video review ‘Bully’ a harrowing, painfully real murder story By JOHN HANSEN Jan. 25, 2002 Now here’s a film that does justice to the adjective “harrowing.” “Bully,” the controversial film from “Kids” director […]
TV shows lost to history (Review): Although awkwardly spun off from “Dawson’s Creek,” “YA” finds its own identity by mixing old influences with new issues.
TV shows lost to history (Review): Despite crew-versus-network turmoil after “James at 15,” this next batch of episodes feels like a logical continuation.
TV shows lost to history (Review): Dan Wakefield’s groundbreaking, fondly remembered show would go on to influence “Dawson’s Creek.”
“Riverdale’s” (9 p.m. Eastern, Thursdays, The CW) broad strokes will be familiar to anyone who’s seen a high school drama TV series or movie before, but it has a few elements that might make it worth […]
One-season wonders (TV review): Britt Robertson takes a crack at a witchy lead role in this book adaptation.
One-season wonders (TV review): Kevin Williamson returns to teen drama and adds a juicy mystery in this eight-episode series.
After “Dawson’s Creek” and before his commercial resurgence with “The Vampire Diaries” and “The Following,” uber-producer Kevin Williamson stumbled through a few interesting failures. Among them was “Glory Days” (2002, WB), which lasted nine episodes before it […]
“The Edge of Seventeen” is the latest entry in the “teenage girls who are so obsessed with their dream of a perfect life that they make reality out to be worse than it really is” genre. […]