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At Will Burton's new school, the band geeks are not geeks at all. On his first day of classes after moving to New Jersey, he's shocked to see a school-sanctioned live rock band cranking it to 11 ...

The perky, hollow “Bandslam” is the latest in a long line of movies that steal liberally from the John Hughes playbook of high-school comedies but lack the heart and insight Hughes invested in his ...

When I read the initial synopses for the movie “Bandslam,” I thought it was just going to be “School of Rock,” but with angsty teens. But I’m glad to say that I was way off and “Bandslam” is a fun ...

Director Todd Graff makes movies with music, as opposed to movie musicals. Note the distinction -- rather than allowing his characters to spontaneously break into song, Graff tells stories in which ...

The perky, hollow “Bandslam” is the latest in a long line of movies that steal liberally from the John Hughes playbook of high-school comedies, but lack the heart and insight Hughes invested in his ...

“Bandslam” is a pretty good movie given that the odds of it having been a pretty bad movie were steep. On its face, it sounds like the highest-possible fructose corn syrup: Lonely new kid in town, ...

Some things are just contradictions in terms, like "gourmet popcorn" or "political courage" or "good, wholesome rock movie." Sure, Disney has made millions with its "High School Musical" franchise.

Some search for battle, others are born into it ...

This was emailed to me by a Bandslam insider who’s also a prominent filmmaker (and asked to be anonymous) in response to my box office report that the Walden Media/Summit Entertainment pic had a ...

WASHINGTON — Mop-top actor Gaelan Connell has come a long way from his days playing with his band, Exist, in his parents’ Silver Spring, Md., basement. Suddenly, he is the star of the movie “Bandslam, ...

Last fall, then-Friday Night Lights star Scott Porter did an absolutely terrific job guest-blogging for us from the Austin City Limits music festival. Now that he’s graduated to the big screen — ...