It says a lot that at the screening I went to for the newly rereleased The Doom Generation (in the “weird city” of Austin, no less), it wasn’t a scene of intense violence or degradation or animal death that got the loudest gasp from the audience. That honor instead went to a brief but unbroken […]
Pop Rehabilitation: Jawbreaker
Not content to let their pop passions go unloved by the masses, Loser City staff have banded together to provide Pop Rehabilitation to the works that have been unjustly maligned and forgotten. Today Nick Hanover revisits Darren Stein’s underappreciated 1999 flop Jawbreaker, which he argues was a far more representative teen film experience than its more successful peers and successors. […]