Looking for Alaska Review: The John Green Novel Finally Gets a TV Adaptation

Twelve years in the making, we finally have a TV adaptation of John Green’s Looking for Alaska, and it is the teen show we’ve been needing. Among the overwrought teen dramas of today, dramas that always have to have an…

Nancy Drew 1×02 Review: “The Secret of the Old Morgue” Unites The Dream Team

The case of Tiffany Hudson has exposed a potentially shady web hiding in Horseshoe Bay on Nancy Drew. You would think that the “grieving” husband would want to find his wife’s killer, but everyone seems content to play along with…

Nancy Drew Series Premiere Review: A Creepy Mystery Pulls Us In

If there is one thing my childhood has taught me, it’s that if Nancy Drew is on the case, she will solve anything! But in The CW’s heart-pounding new series, the iconic detective might have faced her toughest match yet.…

Spider-Man: Far From Home Author Preeti Chhibber on ‘Homecoming’ as the Ultimate YA Movie

Spider-Man: Homecoming combined two of my favorite things in one fantastic film: Young Adult stories and super-hero films. With its young cast, general teen aesthetic reminiscent of a John Hughes classic, and high school setting complete with an actual school…

Ma Movie Review: Octavia Spencer gives her all in a horror film that couldn’t care less about her

As if high school wasn’t scary enough, Ma is a new horror thriller from Blumhouse and Universal attempting to inject new terrors into the coming-of-age experience, this time by front-lining Octavia Spencer (an Academy Award-winning actress) at her wackiest octave, a sublime blend of unhinged, unbent, and thoroughly broken.

STAR 3×13 Review: “The Reckoning”

Xander’s reign as the resident bad boy looks to be over on STAR. The crime boss exited stage left with a bullet after Cassie dropped a truth bomb that the FBI planned to take him down any day now. We…

Five Feet Apart Movie Review: This teen drama is Super Bowl Sunday queso — cheesy and lukewarm

In a perfect world, only good things would happen to good people, and, conversely, only the worst of circumstances would befall the worst of us. Generous, kind girls who hold doors for the elderly would never experience a rainy day…