An energetic, if overlong, music-driven comedy set against the backdrop of a high school battle of the bands competition, the film manages to come up with a fresh backbeat for the familiar alienated ...

The film's plot line is highly fictitious as it begins with Will Burton (Gaelan Connell) being the loser in his Cincinnati school. He then moves to New Jersey and becomes one of the popular kids. At ...

Gaelan Connell rocks out in 'Bandslam.' By Stephen Whitty Newhouse News Service Some things are just contradictions in terms. Like "gourmet popcorn." Or "political courage." Or "good, wholesome rock ...

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 ...