We think of decades as starting when the calendar says they do, but pop culture doesn’t work that way. If you ask someone to picture the 1960s, they’re not imagining 1961. They’re imagining 1967, maybe 1969, flower children and Woodstock and the Summer of Love. The early 60s still looked and sounded like the 50s … Read more
Say Anything arrived on home video this week in 1989, after an April 14th theatrical release. This was the last great teen dramedy of the 80s. Within a few years, the coming-of-age story would drop out of high school entirely. Singles and Reality Bites gave us twentysomethings still figuring it out, but now with rent … Read more
Yes, it’s a Rom Com. Set in Seattle. In 1992. The year Grunge exploded. Most people my age at the time (20-something collegial slackers) doing our Gen-X thing almost laughed this off the screen for daring to attempt to reflect our styles and attitudes. Shyeah. How dare you, Cameron Crow. How dare you co-opt our … Read more