The Angry Birds Movie misses the mark and instead caused me to exclaim, “What the flock!”

I was 14 years old in the summer of 1981 following my freshman year in high school. I had started to discover who I am and had already established my interest in computers and programming courtesy of the terminals we used to connect to a university’s mainframe computer via a telephone line. I went to […]

I was surprised when I heard that Grown Ups 2 was on the way. It’s the first sequel to an Adam Sandler film from his Happy Madison Productions. Moreover, I didn’t think that Grown Ups really needed a sequel. It tied up the story nicely, and everybody had a happy ending of sorts. Nevertheless, Grown […]

A struggling 14 year-old finds solace and support at a local water park in the coming-of-age film The Way, Way Back. In the 1979 film Meatballs, Bill Murray‘s character (a camp counselor) says to a new arrival, “You must be the short depressed kid we ordered.” That film was another coming-of-age story involving another disconnected […]