Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In “Dìdi,” writer/director Sean Wang returns to his suburban Northern California hometown of Fremont to tell a ...

Coming of age films are nothing new. We’ve seen the awkwardness, the raucous, lewd humor and the emotional complexity that accompanies teen years on screen before, but films that balance those three ...

Sometimes I think the best “coming of age” stories are the ones that open old wounds. The older we get, the harder it is to remember exactly what it was like to be young and inexperienced, stepping ...

One of the most plaintive refrains of the Y2K era was sung by Mark Hoppus of Blink-182: “Well, I guess this is growing up.” Their song was released in 1997 and precedes Sean Wang’s narrative feature ...

Izaac Wang in writer-director Sean Wang's "Dìdi." (Courtesy Focus Features/Talking Fish Pictures, LLC) The thing about being a teenage boy is that it’s terrible. You’re all hopped up on hormones and ...

From festival grants to a job at Google to his own grandma, the Fremont native’s personal journey contributed to his semiautobiographical coming-of-age movie, which is the opening night feature at ...

Dìdi was made for people who shiver with panic at the sound of AOL Instant Messenger’s creaking door alert. Each time it played in Sean Wang’s 2008-set coming-of-ager, it felt like a claw hook had ...

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The boys are back, and they’re in the same universe. Yes, this week marks the sole Marvel release of the summer with Deadpool & Wolverine. Will this be the MCU’s salvation or just another example of ...