5 hours ago Carrie review – Brian De Palma’s horror masterpiece is a death metal spectacle of carnage

Sissy Spacek unforgettably evolves from ugly duckling to swan to something else entirely in the groundbreaking film adaptation of Stephen King’s novelBrian De Palma’s insouciantly horrible masterpiece from 1976, adapted from the novel by Stephen King, and mixing in tropes and tricks from Hitchcock’s Psycho, is now rereleased. This is the extraordinary exploitation shocker that also conveyed – or anyway fabricated – an impassioned sympathy for a bullied teenage girl with learning disabilities and telekinetic powers. It was a horror classic that didn’t conform to the narrative beats of the genre; it was a scary movie in which the terrifying demon was also the final girl.Sissy Spacek gives an amazing performance as Carrie, a shy high school student and put-upon daughter of Margaret (Piper ...

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7 hours ago Tragedy as schoolgirl, 16, drowns after boat capsizes on family sailing trip

Daira Melissa Arias Mena, a tenth-grade student at the Normal Superior Santa Teresita School in Bahia Solano, Colombia, died on October 13 after a boat she was sailing in overturned

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24 hours ago Academics at Oxford, the university that produced Boris Johnson, shouldn't denigrate state

At Oxbridge, unrealistically long reading lists encourage students to skip, skim and blag, so that they learn showmanship rather than scholarship, with the inevitable result – Boris Johnson

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25 hours ago Staffer at a California Christian school sold pornography of students and dirty underwear, court docs show

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37 hours ago Many schools are still closed weeks after Hurricane Helene. Teachers worry about long

Tens of thousands of students in the Southeast are dealing with school disruptions after Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc so severe — on homes, campuses and municipal power and water systems — that some districts have no idea when they will reopen

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