Two childhood best friends enter high school, and new things crop up for both of them, causing issues, heartache, and leading them to discover themselves a bit more in the process.
Tag Archives: Coming of Age
Heart of the Man (2024) [FilmOut San Diego 2025]
A young boxer being trained by his father to take on the family mantle and a title shot finds himself in a new place with unexpected new friends while going on a self-discovery journey.
POOLS (2025)
A young woman enrolled in summer school courses decides to attempt to reconnect with her dead father, and herself, over the course of a crazy night of pool hopping.
Summer of ’69 (2025)
Premiered on Hulu May 9th
Abby is a high school loner. She hires a stripper to teach her the ropes about sex in Hulu’s hilarious raunchy comedy Summer of 69, directed by Jillian Bell.
Jackpot! (2024)
Now Available for Streaming on Amazon Prime.
Paul Feig’s “Jackpot!” is that horrible, malt-o-meal garbage movie meant mainly to be as edgy as possible without ever really intending to offend anyone. It disguises itself as social satire when really in the end it has zero to say. It’s just a flaccid hundred minutes drag through nonsense and emptiness. No one at any point in this movie seems to be mentally present, including John Cena who often looks a lot more like a walking action figure than anything else. With Feig’s premise you just assume you’d be in the market for a blood soaked science fiction film. At the very least, you’d expect a darkly comic if mean movie about greed and the way the economy has driven in to rabid dogs.
It’s actually a vanilla coming of age story with a premise that’s gradually pushed in to the background over the course of the narrative.
Inside Out 2 (2024)
Now Exclusively in Theaters.
2015’s “Inside Out” felt like such a genuine and sincere attempt to figure out not just emotions but the importance that both negative and positive emotions can have. It simplified itself through normal subconscious cues like colors and characters, but through it all “Inside Out” was touching and a complex look at dealing with our feelings and learning to accept them. “Inside Out 2” is a perfectly okay follow up that has a lot to live up to. Its predecessor set the bar high and the sequel never quite hits that bar. “Inside Out 2” is stuck in the middle of trying to figure out what it’s trying to say and hitting that bottom line of introducing new characters for the sake of merchandise sales.
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (2024)
1991’s “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” is one of my favorite 90’s films. It’s also a painfully underrated comedy that, despite being marketed as a dark comedy, is actually a charming, fun coming of age teen comedy in the vein of “Working Girl.” Wade Allain-Marcus’ remake is shockingly not a bad movie at all, either, it’s just completely unnecessary. I don’t think anyone was begging for a remake of “Don’t Tell Mom…” when all was said and done. But lo and behold we got one, and I’m still not sure who this movie is aimed towards.