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 ...

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 ...

There has long been a truism in Hollywood that movies released in August are second-tier, that anything coming at the tail end of the summer season is being expelled rather than released. It sometimes ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The seventh movie in the “Alien” franchise arrives, because they don’t count “Alien vs Predator,” which is a travesty because it’s excellent. “Alien Romulus” looks pretty ...

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 ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Joan Chen. The actor is getting Oscar buzz for the new film, "Dìdi," in which Chen plays the mother of a Taiwanese-American skater kid in the Bay Area. A new coming-of-age ...

Writer-director Sean Wang’s honest, often brutal ode to adolescence has an unlikable protagonist and great performances by Izaac Wang and Joan Chen. “Dìdi” is advertised as a movie “for anyone who’s ...

After several months of having Didi on the list of 2024 movies I needed to check out, I finally got around to watching Sean Wang’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story with my Peacock ...

Director Sean Wang on how he used his Google Creative Labs experience to turn 2008-era AIM and Myspace into cinematic storytelling tools. In “Dìdi,” writer/director Sean Wang returns to his suburban ...