The Yearbook Committee Podcast: Recent Episodes
Emma Kathryn and Paul Costello
A biweekly podcast all about teen movies, where Emma Kathryn and Paul Costello pick a theme for every episode and talk about 3 teen movies that relate to that theme. NERDS!
Emma and Paul finaly reach the end of their supernatural season, but before they cast aside all the witches and time machines, they look back over all the films covered and settle on their own Top 10s, Bottom 5s, and all the shout outs and honourable mentions from across the 72 movies covered this season.
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Emma and Paul take one last look at the spooky side of teen movies with a trio of possession movies, discussing the power of friendship, the uselessness of adults, and why it's always girls with Jennifer's Body (2009), Veronica (2017) and My Best Friend's Exorcism (2022).
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Emma and Paul get help from some spooky visitors with Friendly Ghosts! Appearing before them in a creepy-yet-well-intentioned fog are Teen Spirit (2011), Suzie Q (1996) and Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt) (2020).
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85 episodes in and Emma and Paul feel like they're doing the same thing over and over and over again so what better time to look at time loops! Get ready to play this episode on repeat as they check out Before I Fall (2017), The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021) and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006).
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Emma and Paul strap on their on backpacks, get themselves up to 88 miles per hour and get ready to hit hypertime as they look over three teen movies about time travel, with the stone-cold classic Back to the Future (1985), the Nickelodeon shenanigan-fest Clockstoppers (2002), and the guy-punchingly topical See You Yesterday (2019).
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Emma and Paul get that little bit more mileage out of the body swap trope, and even get to pull in anime, Disney and slashers for Round 2 of metaphysical hi-jinks with Your Name (2016), Wish Upon a Star (1996), and Freaky (2020).
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Emma and Paul wake up in the wrong bodies for The Body Swap! (They didn't really but imagine all the empathetic revelations they would have!) This episode they metaphorically switch things up with It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006), Every Day (2018) and Freaky Friday (2003).
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Emma and Paul thwipp and swing their way through the first instalments of 4 batches of Spider-Men films! Travel through the actual spider-verse with Spider-Man (2002), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Spider-Man Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018). Now that's a lot of red and blue spandex.
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Emma and Paul stay with the capes and cowls as they continue their look at the troubled teens with super powers, and the regrettably dumb stuff they do with them. Heading back into the fray with Kick-Ass (2010), Zapped! (1982), and Chronicle (2012).
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Emma and Paul get on their super suits and head out to chronicle the heroism (super and otherwise) of the teenagers with bags of power and heads full of trauma. Join the fight with the superteens in Power Rangers (2017), Big Hero 6 (2014), and Sky High (2005).
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Paul and Emma dive to the deepest parts of the ocean and dredge up three films about flicking your fins - Aquamarine (2006), Sea Change (2017) and Ruby Gilman Teenage Kraken (2023)!
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Emma and Paul turn their attention to the more gross aspects of teendom: puberty as body horror. The time when your body betrays you into looking and/or feeling like a freak, and three very different stories of discovering the alien side of your physical self, in Teeth (2007), Excision (2012) and Idle Hands (1999).
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Emma and Paul adhere to the ancient rites and look at three tales of the eternal struggles between Good and Evil, and how love is somehow always at the centre of it all, in the shape of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013), Fallen (2016), and Beautiful Creatures (2013).
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Emma and Paul take a trip into the realm of fairy tales for 3 happily ever afters with A Cinderella Story (2004), Red Riding Hood (2011) and Belle (2021).
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Emma and Paul take a stroll down Fear Street, looking at all 3 films (1994, 1978 and 1666) as they dissect monsters, needle drops and gruesome deaths.
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Emma and Paul unleash a maelstrom of monsters after visiting the Scholastic Book Fair where they check out Goosebumps (2015), Girl vs Monster (2012) and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019).
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Emma and Paul finally return to the world of teen vampires, having lost all sense of discipline within their own format. The pair look at movies based on book series, finding what worked and what didn't in The Twilight Saga (2008-2012), Vampire Academy (2014), and Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009).
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Emma and Paul finally get to do a full episode on the scary, sexy, camp creatures of the night: vampires. Looking at the need to sleep all day, rebel against authority and feast on the blood of the living, just like your typical teenager, it's a belter of a lineup with The Lost Boys (1987), Fright Night (1985), Once Bitten (1985), and Near Dark (1987).
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Emma and Paul look at the creations of the mad teen scientists and manage to pull a Disney Channel Original Movie triple bill in the same episode! Including How to Build a Better Boy (2018), Pixel Perfect (2004) and Life Size (2000). Warning: contains more laughter than these poor movies probably deserve.
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It's Alive! Paul and Emma stitch together three films for a look at the mad teen scientist, featuring Weird Science (1985), Virtual Sexuality (1999) and Deadly Friend (1986).
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Emma and Paul set up for an episode that's surprisingly heavy on the musical numbers considering they're looking at three movies about teenagers dealing with the trails and tribulations of zombies from sides of the brains in Warm Bodies (2013), Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018), and Anna and the Apocalypse (2017).
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Emma and Paul light some candles, call the corners and invoke the spirit of Louise, Sabrina and Nancy as they look into three films about discovering the power of witchcraft in Teen WItch (1989), Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996), and The Craft (1996).
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Today Paul and Emma are howling at the moon because they're going through some changes - just like the wolves of Teen Wolf (1985), Full Moon High (1981) and Ginger Snaps (2000).
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After an epic 33 episodes and 99 films, Paul and Emma look back on the films of their season on Love and Relationships and each give their Top 10 and Bottom 5 films of the season. Expect a few surprises (and some that were no surprise at all)!
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Emma and Paul get some new clothes, new hair and start talking different when they get involved with some gangs, looking at the good and the bad that comes from finding a group that makes you feel safe when the rest of the world doesn't in Girlhood (2014), Dear Wendy (2005), and The Outsiders (1983).
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Emma and Paul consider some of the more unusual pairings to have cropped up for the teenagers of filmdom, and what kind of experience this can have, whether that's enriching or not... taking a look at Harold and Maude (1971), Hard Sell (2016), and About a Boy (2002).
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Emma and Paul learn karate, hone their writing skills and discover how to be rock gods (kind of) with the help of (mostly) friendly mentors, while looking at The Karate Kid (1984), The Beat Beneath My Feet (2014) and Finding Forrester (2000).
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Paul and Emma continue their journey into the classrooms of teachers who push their pupils to great things with Freedom Writers (2007), To Sir With Love (1967) and Stand and Deliver (1988).
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Emma and Paul stand on their desks and let forth their barbaric yawp as they consider three movies and the nature of the influential teacher in a teen's life in Dead Poets Society (1989), Take the Lead (2006), and The Class (2008).
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Emma and Paul finally land on the teen love story to end all teen love stories, and has therefore become the basis for all teen love stories. Looking at a classic rendering, a modern adaptation, and two musical versions, it's time for the tale of woe of Juliet and her Romeo.
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Emma and Paul come to terms with grief and the threat of loss in a tear-jerking episode of things going TERRIBLY WRONG, looking at The Falling (2014), If I Stay (2014) and Spontaneous (2020)
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Emma and Paul are still weeping over the ill teens of moviedom in the final part of the Sick Kids trilogy with Words on Bathroom Walls (2020), Bubble Boy (2001) and Life in a Year (2020).
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Emma and Paul stay at the bedside of the sick kids a little longer, and further consider the apparent life-changing effect it can have on emotionally reclusive teens to have a new friend who doesn't have much time left, in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), Everything, Everything (2017), and I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018).
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Emma and Paul pull up chairs next to the teens making bucket lists and considering the big questions of life beyond death in three movies about teenagers with terminal illnesses in The Fault in Our Stars (2014), A Walk to Remember (2002), and Five Feet Apart (2019).
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Emma and Paul get locked away with the teens whose parents will stop at nothing to "protect" them from the outside world with The Virgin Suicides (1999), Dogtooth (2009) and Mustang (2015).
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Paul and Emma enter the murky and damaging world of conversion camps with But I'm A Cheerleader (1999), Boy Erased (2018) and The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018).
Please note that this episode contains issues which may be triggering for some listeners including self-harm, suicide, and homophobia.
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They burn, they pine, they perish... the hearts and minds of those who love someone who doesn't know they even exist. Emma and Paul look at three movies that consider the heartbreak and angst of unrequited love with Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), Water Lilies (2007), and Show Me Love (1998).
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What happens when two friends have their relationship strained when one starts a relationship and the other does not? Social anxiety, heartbreak, and dancing in public to Otis Redding songs. Emma and Paul consider the plight of the Third Wheel in The Edge of Seventeen (2016), Lucas (1986), and Pretty in Pink (1986).
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Emma and Paul get mad and get even with three tales of high school revenge, looking at John Tucker Must Die (2006), Teaching Mrs Tingle (1999) and The Loved Ones (2009).
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Emma and Paul are feeling green with envy as they look at Cruel Intentions (1999), Cracks (2009) and The Moth Diaries (2011).
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Emma and Paul continue their look at friends who find themselves on diverging paths, only this time not by choice or natural growth, but by the external forces of something outside of themselves, be that parents, politics, or the law. For this, they look over Ginger & Rosa (2012), The Color of Friendship (2000), and Heavenly Creatures (1994).
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Emma and Paul look the stories of friends on the brink of personal and social growth, and realising that the friends they have may not be for much longer in The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (2005), That Was Then... This is Now (1985), and Stand by Me (1986).
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Emma and Paul take a look at something altogether more wholesome (at last) with swapped notes, secret messages and love letters with Love, Simon (2018), Secret Admirer (1985) and To All The Boys I've Loved Before (2018)
xoxox
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Emma and Paul take on part 2 of their teen pregnancy double bill by looking at young mothers and the support groups around them, whether that's old friends, new friends or the cheerleading A squad - with Crossroads (2002), Saved! (2004) and Sugar & Spice (2001).
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Emma and Paul turn now to part 1 of their look at when sex goes far enough to become a statistic in health class. No carrying around a bag of flour for a week, this is the real deal - teen pregnancy - with Juno (2007), For Keeps (1988), and Riding in Cars with Boys (2001).
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Emma and Paul stay in the murky waters of sexuality and teendom, this time looking at the dangerous consequences of sex in It Follows (2014), Cherry Falls (2000), and Kids (1995).
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Emma and Paul reach the final part in their virginity trilogy and take a look at a how things are for the girls with Blockers (2018), Very Good Girls (2013) and Little Darlings (1980).
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Emma and Paul continue their journey through bawdy teen sex comedies with 3 of the most influential films of the genre - American Pie (1999), Porky's (1981) and Lemon Popsicle (1978). Get ready for a teen movie history lesson!
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Emma and Paul begin their foray into classic territory of any quintessential teen movie: losing your virginity. For the first part of the journey, they look at Losin' It (1983), The Girl Next Door (2004), and Alex Strangelove (2018).
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Emma and Paul strain their own definitions of a teen movie as they approach the tricky subject of relationships in movies between teenagers and someone older in Lolita (1997), An Education (2009), and Call Me By Your Name (2017).
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Emma and Paul get all literary and look at 4 adaptations of the classic Cyrano de Bergerac tale with Sierra Burgess is a Loser (2018), Whatever It Takes (2000), Let It Shine (2012) and The Half of It (2020).
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It's Valentine's Day! Emma and Paul look back at some of their favourite teen movie dates, including the good, the bad and the freaking adorable.
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Emma and Paul take a look at the rent-a-boyfriend (and girlfriend) with films that all revolve around a dating agreement, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Perfect Date (2019), Can't Buy Me Love (1987) and Love Don't Co$t a Thing (2003). 4 films! On purpose!
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Emma and Paul take a look at the teen movie relationships that have gone several steps too far, turning into terrifying ordeals of obsession in Swimfan (2002), All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), and Fear (1996).
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Emma and Paul look at three stories of teenagers whose love crossed different boundaries to be with each other, and their struggle to keep together, with Crazy/Beautiful (2001), Endless Love (1981), and Valley Girl (1983).
Emma and Paul look at people who went big when trying to get the attention of their crush, with 8 Days a Week (1997), I Love You Beth Cooper (2009) and The Big Steal (1990)
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Emma and Paul kick off Season 3 with a look back at the intoxicating rush of falling for your first crush with Gregory's Girl (1980), La Boum (1980) and Baby It's You (1983).
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Emma and Paul arrive at the end of another season of teen movie watching and pause to look back, pick out their Top 10 favourites, consider the episodes that almost were, and discuss what to expect from season 3.
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Emma and Paul turn that rebellious streak inward and consider the teens who have decided to throw out their old ways in pursuit of something more in Booksmart (2019), The To Do List (2013), and Youth in Revolt (2009).
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Emma and Paul pull off their bonnets and let their big hair down as they look at the teens who take on societal norms in Hairspray (1988), Devil's Playground (2002) and Spring Breakers (2012).
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This week, Emma and Paul look at the teens who take on the ire of the townspeople with Pleasantville (1998), Footloose (1984) and Assassination Nation (2018)
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Emma and Paul consider the teenagers who don't want to be like their parents, and the kind of conflicts that arise when they start to assert themselves and what they want by looking at Lady Bird (2017), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), and Mermaids (1990).
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Emma and Paul set their rebellious sights on schools, fighting against oppressive teachers, prefects and other fascists of high school by looking at if.... (1968), Strike! (1998), and The Trotsky (2009).
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Emma and Paul rebel against conformity, whether that's in the shape of pod people, Stepford teens or even pop music!!! This week, we look at The Faculty (1998), Disturbing Behaviour (1998) and Josie and the Pussycats (2001).
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Emma and Paul are back with Season 2: Rebellion! This episode, they're looking at the rebels themselves with Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Stick It (2006) and Pump Up The Volume (1990)
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Emma and Paul made it to the end of Season 1! To celebrate, they look back on all the films they watched and pick out their personal Top 10, their honourable mentions, and give quick rundown on what's to come in Season 2.
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Emma and Paul finally find their people as they look at the friendship groups of The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Whip It (2009) and Foxfire (1996).
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Emma and Paul grab some air and take a look at the skateboarding teams of the teens (and include a bonus movie) with Mid90s(2018), Gleaming the Cube (1989), Lords of Dogtown (2005) and Skate Kitchen (2018).
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Emma and Paul are fans of movies looking at movies about fans to see what those movies say about fans and what those fans say about themselves in Almost Famous (2000), All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001), and I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story (2018).
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Emma and Paul consider the pros and cons of the celebrity lifestyle as lived by teenagers in The Bling Ring (2013), S.F.W. (1994), and Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (1982).
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Have you heard? Emma and Paul whisper and pass notes with Easy A (2010), Cry_Wolf (2005) and Gossip (2000).
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Emma and Paul swipe left and make sure to like and subscribe to Eighth Grade (2018), Swiped (2018) and Nerve (2016).
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Emma and Paul head out on a wild adventure that'll change their lives, learning about the joy of being free spirited with a sweet indie soundtrack as they look at the Manic Pixie Dream Teen in Say Anything... (1989), Paper Towns (2015), and My Sassy Girl (2001).
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Paul and Emma put their horror knowledge to the test as they try to hide from that serial killer who just keeps calling them, in a very special Halloween episode looking at Scream (1996), The Monster Squad (1987) and Tragedy Girls (2017).
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Emma and Paul log onto the information super highway and upload their thoughts about a trio of movies about t33n h4x0rs... does that sound right? Probably not. Either way, they're checking out Hackers (1995), Masterminds (1997), and WarGames (1983).
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Emma and Paul pluck those brows, straighten that hair and descend the staircase of teen movies with the makeover, covering She's All That (1999), The Princess Diaries (2001) and She's The Man (2006).
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Emma and Paul get their new locker combinations and their maps of the cafeteria as the take a look at the experience of the new kid with The New Guy (2002), New Hope (2012) and La Belle Personne (2008).
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Emma and Paul wander the haze of bong smoke and classic rock to get a glimpse of the stoner through the lens of three very different stories in Dazed and Confused (1993), Kid Cannabis (2014), and Mac and Devin Go to High School (2012).
Emma and Paul cast their eye over the world of scripts, leotards and close harmonies, looking in on those kids who were so born to be on stage that they went to a school to help them get there in Fame (1980), Center Stage (2000), and Raise Your Voice (2004).
A bad kid did it and ran away! This episode, Paul and Emma look at those kids that awaken that bad streak in you with Thirteen (2003), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and Thoroughbreds (2017)
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In a Yearbook Committe first, Emma and Paul cover 4 films! This time they look at the role of the foreign exchange student, including a Felicity Jones double bill with Slap Her, She's French (2002), California Man (1992), Like Crazy (2011) and Breathe In (2013).
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Emma and Paul turn their attentions to the ones who never receive any. The awkward ones who exist on the fringes of the social scene, the ones usually picked on or ignored completely. The ones who just can't seem to get a break. The outcasts of Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Carrie (1976), Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995).
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Emma and Paul cast an eye over the ones who always have a hand raised in class. The ones who know where they want to go in life. The ones who get things done, no matter how hard that may seem to be. The ones who overachieve in Election (1999), Rushmore (1998), and Real Genius (1985).
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Emma and Paul are eternally thankful that social media was not around when they were in high school as they look at Cyberbully (2015), Unfriended (2014) and Audrie and Daisy (2016).
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Emma and Paul try to keep their lunch money and avoid getting stuffed into a locker as they take on the Bully, looking at Three O'Clock High (1987), Bully (2001), and My Bodyguard (1980).
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Emma and Paul set out three monsters of teen moviedom as they try to see what it is about the allure of the Mean Friend, looking at Mean Girls (2004), Heathers (1988), and Jawbreaker (1999).
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Emma and Paul turn their attention to the shifting cinematic portrayal of the oft maligned role of the Cheerleader, looking at Bring It On (2000), Fired Up (2009), and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992).
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Paul and Emma cheer on their favourite sports team and look at the role of the Jock in high school life with Varsity Blues (1999), All the Right Moves (1983) and O (2001).
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Emma and Paul look at how role of the Nerd fits into the social landscape with three films: X + Y (2014), Revenge of the Nerds (1984) and Dope (2015).
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Emma Kathryn and Paul Costello set out to discuss the teenage experience as told through film. But before they get going, they have to decide: what exactly is a teen movie?
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Emma and Paul look at three teen movies about fitting into the roles we're given: The Breakfast Club (1985); American Teen (2008); and The DUFF (2015)
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