School of Rock (2003)

Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu" (1922)

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.

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Studio: Paramount Pictures Studio: Paramount Pictures Studio: Paramount Pictures

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Oct 3, 2003

Running Time: 108 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White, Sarah Silverman, Joey Gaydos, Maryam Hassan, Kevin Alexander Clark, Rebecca Brown, Robert Tsai, Jordan-Claire Green

director: Richard Linklater

School of Rock

Dewey Finn is a hell-raising guitarist with delusions of grandeur. Kicked out of his band and desperate for work, Dewey impersonates a substitute teacher and turns a class of fifth grade high-achievers into high-voltage rock and rollers. The private school's uptight and skeptical head, Principal Mullins, watches on as the 'new sub' preps the kids for Battle of the Bands.

After getting kicked out of his band, a hell-raising guitarist impersonates a substitute teacher and turns a class of fifth-grade high-achievers into high-voltage rock 'n' rollers.

Story

Poor Dewey Finn (Jack Black): All this guitarist wants to do is rock 'n' roll, but not even his going-nowhere band can put up with his overly dramatic and ridiculously bad solos, and like Spinal Tap personified, anything that can go wrong for Dewey does. His desperation reaches climactic proportions when his…

February 24, 2004

Personally, if my kids went to a school of rock where they learned that Yes were cool, I'd firebomb the school board. But the movie works because Jack Black gives a virtuoso one-man show as a metalhead substitute teacher. There's something weirdly mean-spirited about the movie -- the white kids learn to rock, and the black kids learn to be bodyguards or backup singers. Hell, The Bad News Bears let the whole team get into the game, why can't School of Rock? Yet Black's manic riffing is the comedy…