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‘Super Dark Times’: Indie cinema takes on teen violence, paranoia

by Frankie Taggart Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Three decades after “Stand by Me” cast its long shadow over coming-of-age storytelling, Stephen King’s influence continues to resonate with theater-goers and TV audiences. Based on King’s novella “The Body,” Rob Reiner’s 1986 cult hit spawned its own genre, typically featuring a group of wise-cracking, cursing kids, often on bikes, facing up to teenage trauma in Anytown, USA. Several Steven Spielberg movies fit the […]