Two summers, two well-reviewed teen cancer dramadies for teens based off of award-winning YA books. Though they are quite different in tone and theme, the two beg to be compared and contrasted. So: Fault vs. Earl. Who ya got? Let’s take a look, category by category. Source Book: I really, really love Earl — it’s somehow both funnier and sadder than Fault,…
James: Junior year I was dating this girl, Betsy Cooke. Betsy was kind of like… she was kind of a prude, actually. Anyway, one day I was reading Shakespeare, and I realized I don’t really love this person. You know? It was one of the sonnets, “being your slave, what should I do but tend…
The Way Way Back (2013) – 3½ stars (out of 4) The Kings of Summer (2013) – 3 stars (out of 4) I watched two coming-of-age-themed movies this weekend that had enough interesting compare-and-contrast elements between them that I decided I wanted to write a quick article here reviewing them.