A teenage boy goes to his friend’s birthday party where the parents are surprising all the boys attending with a gift for their son that will change all these boys forever.
Tag Archives: Coming of Age
The Island Closest To Heaven [1984] [Cult Epics LE]
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia to seek what her father called “The Island Closest to Heaven” in Nobuhiko Obayashi’s travelogue melodrama; in a new Blu-Ray from Cult Epics.
Growing Pains (2025)
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.
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.