What is it like to be a teenager in 2025? If I had to wager a guess, I’d say it would be very different from what it was back in the 2010s. Social media is not a suggestion, but a given. DMing strangers and forming connections on the Internet, although not unheard of back in […]
2008 was sixteen years ago. If you were born in that year, you can now legally drive a car, which means that Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and whoever is next are going through their formative years right now. Like it or not (and you probably don’t), a film about life in 2008 is now considered […]
The last time that I truly felt represented on-screen was when I watched Minhal Baig’s Hala. When Hala (Geraldine Viswanathan) fights back against her mother, Eram (Purbi Joshi), for being too protective, restrictive, and often overbearing, it reminded me of my own teenage years. The way that Eram tried to teach Hala in her native […]