💛 Grow Up 💖

“It’s just the age...the age where nothing fits.” ✨🎥 Exploring youth on screen in all its angsty glory • founded by: @odcgg + @theclairencew ✨

[💛 Grow Up 💖 @growuponscreen]

IT’S OUR BIRTHDAY ✨🥳💖 When we launched Grow Up a year ago, we hoped people would care about teen and coming of age genres as much as we do. The wealth of talented writers & essays we have been able to publish are a dream come true! Thank you everyone for your support✨🥳💖

[💛 Grow Up 💖 @growuponscreen]

Celebrate 20 years of CROSSROADS by watching our instagram live, talking with music video scholar @sydurbanek about the critical reception of the film, Britney's star image and the single 'I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman' here: https://t.co/FF4lTRdtsE

[💛 Grow Up 💖 @growuponscreen]

Happy 20th to coming-of-age road movie CROSSROADS 💖🎙💛

Read about @theclairencew's love for the iconic Britney Spears film on Grow Up: https://t.co/oNSLapS2cY

[WRLH! 👩🏼🎟👩🏻‍🦱 @wereallylikeher]

“All we have is now, and right now we have each other.”

Happy 20th to the one and only CROSSROADS, written by @shondarhimes and directed by Tamra Davis 💖

[💛 Grow Up 💖 @growuponscreen]

And read Part One here! https://t.co/DB9gvXLqfH

[💛 Grow Up 💖 @growuponscreen]

"With every ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ the show offers a hand to hold and anchor for the show’s ambitions. It never promised to offer solutions to all of the world’s problems."

Read part two of @teamboby's analysis of Journey's Don't Stop Believin' in Glee:
https://t.co/IeRhBjG4xF

[💛 Grow Up 💖 @growuponscreen]

"'Dick' reimagines the national memory of Watergate through a feminist lens by making teenage girls the heroes of the story ... to re-examine who is assumed to be capable, and who is remembered by history."

Read Charlotte Turner on Dick (1999) below:
https://t.co/fJLy3OZOYz

[rachel @teamboby]

hey! i wrote this if you wanna check it out ❤️

[💛 Grow Up 💖 @growuponscreen]

@SaraSorrentino Thank you for the support and love, Sara! 💛💖

[💛 Grow Up 💖 @growuponscreen]

"[Glee] is a show with its own profound thesis statement … which is never more evident than in the song ‘Don’t Stop Believin’.’

Read Part One of Rachel Malstrom's (@teamboby) deep dive into the song that became the tentpole of the series:
https://t.co/DB9gvXLqfH

[Cait Jacobs @caitsbooks]

Netflix canceling Julie and the Phantoms is my villain origin story

[Letterboxd @letterboxd]

happy 25th anniversary to a cultural reset. #Scream

[Sydney Urbanek @sydurbanek]

I don't have the numbers in front of me but I imagine something like 77% of your artistic tastes are locked during puberty. Those are your danger zone years and then your loved ones and editors and thesis supervisors subsequently spend your whole life paying for them

[💛 Grow Up 💖 @growuponscreen]

"Viewing The Bling Ring retrospectively, the girls’ belief in their own stardom is even more flimsy than it is depicted through the instantaneous nature of the film."

@loneclaire on THE BLING RING and the ephemerality of celebrity culture. https://t.co/6p24NBIGBM

[💛 Grow Up 💖 @growuponscreen]

Happy Halloween! 🎃🥀🔪 we hope you have a killer time!

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[Film Cred @FilmCred]

Happy Halloween! What are you watching tonight to celebrate?

[Film Cred @FilmCred]

Happy Halloween! What are you watching tonight to celebrate?