GHOST WORLD (2001)
The perfect antidote to the tiresome early-aughts teen comedy "So what was all that about enlarged holes and tight cracks?" These days, GHOST WORLD rarely gets a mention when most people discuss the best cinematic comic-book adaptations of all time. This is something of a crime, because 25 years later, it remains exactly that: a phenomenal adaptation of a highly-regarded comic series. This is somewhat understandable when you consider the fact that Daniel Clowes' critically-acclaimed 8-issue series doesn't feature superheroes in tights, but rather a pair of sardonic 18 year-old girls who have just graduated High School and who find themselves on increasingly divergent paths in their road to adulthood. The screenplay was written in a collaboration between Clowes, and director Terry Zwigoff, and while the film was a critical success, it didn't make much of an impact at the box office and remains something of a cult film. And coming in on the heels of a decade...