In December of 1985, Paramount Pictures released Clue, the big-screen adaptation of the iconic Parker Brothers (now Hasbro) murder-mystery board game that turned every child, parent, and childless adult into an armchair detective. The movie arrived with a novel gimmick: each theater played a different ending, revealing a different killer…

Last week, Netflix dropped the teaser trailer for its Fear Street trilogy, three movies based on R.L. Stine’s bestselling book series about the cursed town of Shadyside and the horrific things that happen to its teenage residents, especially on its titular dead-end road. I woke up to the news and…

Growing up, I didn’t think much about my mixed-race heritage. I grew up in the suburbs of New York City with a white mother from a large Irish-Catholic family and a Japanese father who emigrated to America in the late 70s. My childhood was, simply put, very American. I was…

“For me, the tools that I relied upon to feel well often looked less like treatment and more like the ingredients that make up a full, joyful life: the friends I saw for long, intimate dinners; the work events that made me feel purposeful and accomplished; even the affirming gym…

As I start to write this, news from Kentucky has come in, announcing the devastating verdict in the trial for the killing of Breonna Taylor. It is a soul-crushing development that has become characteristically and dreadfully de rigueur for 2020. It arrives just days after the untimely death of American…

Back in 2003, Todd Graff’s Camp was a hilarious look at a particular species of high schooler, one that rarely receives fair representation in movies: the theater geek. The indie darling, which featured a literal scene-stealing Anna Kendrick, was a joyous celebration of teens who’d rather play Sondheim than sports…

We are the Class of ‘98. We’re a little too old to be Millennials, yet too young to be GenXers. As of now, half of our lives has lived in one century while the other half lives and moves forward in another. For us, Cabbage Patch Dolls were the 80s…