Checked out the new teen drama/comedy The Edge of Seventeen starring Hailee Steinfeld (from True Grit and Ender’s Game… and pop songs) and Woody Harrelson. This has been compared to a modern-day John Hughes move and that’s not too far … Continue reading
Checked out Allegiant, the third in the teen distopian series of movies based on the Divergent trilogy of novels. This is the third of four movies so, yes, they broke book 3 into two movies but apparently realized people are … Continue reading
Checked out The 5th Wave, the new alien invasion YA movie starring Chloe Grace Moretz as a teenage survivor of an alien attack that has wiped out a lot of humanity and her struggle to survive and (sigh) ultimately figure … Continue reading
Paper Towns is the new movie based on the John Green novel of the same name (who also wrote The Fault In Our Stars). It’s a teen road trip caper comedy drama… and it’s pretty good but not entirely engaging … Continue reading
Checked out the new limited release/digital distribution action teen comedy Barely Lethal. This is a flick about teenage super spy assassins and how one sees too many John Houghes movies while on assignment and realizes she wants to be a … Continue reading
April Apocalypse is an attempt to make a high school teen romantic zombie comedy that fails. First off, every actor is clearly 10 years too old for their parts, the writing is just not good, and there’s no surprises, no … Continue reading
The DUFF is a new high school/teen comedy out now in theaters. It’s a cute and chuckle-worthy teen romantic comedy about a girl who realizes she’s the less attractive, more “approachable” one in her friend group and she gets angry … Continue reading
Went to see the teen time travel flick Project Almanac – a movie that’s been delayed for over a year and went through at least two name changes in the process. Very bad signs for not a bad movie. A … Continue reading
Went to see an early showing of Divergent, the latest adapted-from-a-YA-novel flick starring (yeesh) Shaileene Woodley, Jai Courtney, Kate Winslett, Ashley Judd, Zoe Kravitz, Miles Teller, Tony Goldwynn, Maggie Q, and a few other actors whose faces you know but … Continue reading
The new movie Vampire Academy is a desperately hip attempt at cross-breeding Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight (though it pretends it’s better than Twilight by attacking it directly). The dialog is trying hard to be clever, … Continue reading