A vibrant coming-of-age story about an awkward teenager in California in 2008 is also a love letter to the director’s mother. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Alexandra Miller is an LA-born and based writer. She primarily writes about period TV shows and upcoming film releases, but loves to cover anything with a unique concept. Every time the coming-of-age ...

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. A summer of growing up is ...

There has long been a truism in Hollywood that movies released in August are second-tier, that anything coming at the tail end of the summer season is being expelled rather than released. It sometimes ...

Screened at the Princeton Garden Theatre by Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Movies on Friday and Saturday, the film “Dìdi” (2024) tells the humorous and introspective coming-of-age story of ...

All coming-of-age movies essentially hit the same beats: the getting of wisdom, the loss of innocence, the passage from childhood to some hard-won form of adulthood. Only the names, regions, eras and ...

Coming of age films are nothing new. We’ve seen the awkwardness, the raucous, lewd humor and the emotional complexity that accompanies teen years on screen before, but films that balance those three ...

Director Sean Wang on how he used his Google Creative Labs experience to turn 2008-era AIM and Myspace into cinematic storytelling tools. In “Dìdi,” writer/director Sean Wang returns to his suburban ...

Finding your way as a teenager can be brutal. A whirlwind of big emotions and desires is tough to make sense of, let alone communicate. The need for social acceptance can feel intensely urgent, even ...

Coming-of-age films are nothing new. We’ve seen the awkwardness, the raucous, lewd humor and the emotional complexity that accompanies teen years on screen before, but films that balance those three ...