Alexander Payne’s wicked satire of power and (social) politics set in the overheated incubator of a high school student body election is as sharp and perceptive now as it was in 1999.
Plus ‘Beast’ with Idris Elba on Peacock, ‘The Northman’ on Prime Video, ‘See For Me’ on Hulu, Dario Argento’s ‘Dark Glasses’ on AMC+ and Shudder, and a collection of vampire movies of Criterion Channel
The acclaimed drama set in a high school in a small Texas town is not so much a sports drama as a drama about people whose lives were—for better and for worse—defined by sports.
Lindsay Anderson captured the fancy of a generation of British youth with his savage satire of the regimented education system and bullying embedded in the culture.
