In a way harsh takedown of the formative 1985 teen movie “The Breakfast Club,” New Yorker critic Pauline Kael took aim at one of the genre’s most enduring tropes: the misunderstood teen. It’s an ...

Those of us who grew up in the 1980s are apt to associate the teen movie with other hallmarks of that decade’s culture, such as big hair, the Walkman, or Trump: The Game. Yet a new book demonstrates ...

One day Bruce Handy was watching a teen movie — it could have been something new or maybe a vintage John Hughes, he doesn’t remember — when he was struck by the similarities between high school ...

Thanks to the oral surgeon who extracted four wisdom teeth from my college student's mouth and the 20-minutes-on-20-minutes-off ice pack schedule, we were tethered to our TV. I hovered and pampered, ...

Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies may itself seem like yet another exercise in 80’s nostalgia, and author Bruce Handy indulges his probable Generation X readership ...