High School has such a winning premise that you want to send everyone involved in making it back to the drawing board for a do-over — just take it from the top, folks, and this time everyone actually have a good time.
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Joseph Kahn's Detention had me from its first knowingly self-aware trailer, and while word out of SXSW was polarizing -- a love it or hate it kind of deal, by many accounts -- it's one of my more anticipated films of the spring. True, the competition this season isn't too stiff, but still! Watch Josh Hutcherson (of next months The Hunger Games, perhaps you've heard of it?) as a cute hipster kid get ready to take a beating from the school tough guy while an actual killer runs rampant through town and tell me this isn't worth putting on the calendar for April.
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Even before he first flexed his acting muscles as the Scavenger Smoker in Half Baked, weed enthusiasts knew they had a champion in rapper Snoop Dogg. Now comes exciting news out of SXSW: The Doggfather's set to star opposite hip-hop newcomer Wiz Khalifa in a stoner comedy called High School. As Khalifa revealed in an interview, the film will bring two generations of rap together through the shared billowing puffs of the marijuana smoke, accompanied by a soundtrack album of new collaborative tracks. Khalifa describes the project in his own words:
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