How the Film & TV Industry is Starting to Really Get Teens
Hollywood has always had a difficult time portraying teenagers in an accurate manner. Granted, movies and television generally present fantastical lives of all kinds of people that don’t resemble anything close to reality. Actual doctors don’t get so intrinsically involved in their patients’ personal lives, cops don’t play elaborate cat and mouse games with suspects, […]
“Eighth Grade” is an A+ Examination of Middle School, Zits and All
Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher), the 13-year-old at the center of “Eighth Grade”, is a teen with a YouTube channel. She has only a handful of followers, but the young girl wants to give others her pearls of wisdom. Kayla cajoles young girls, via self-shot videos filmed in her bedroom, to be themselves and act confident. […]
