I was supposed to see A Quiet Place 2 the day theatres shut down at the beginning of the pandemic so seeing it now on my first trip back is surreal.  

This second entry into the Abbott family’s survival story has everything I liked about the first film and delivers on the backstory I wanted the first time around. I like films where the action takes place in one location, but the suspense was still effective as they moved outside their…

"Sometimes I have no idea who I am." No other sentence encapsulates the teenage experience quite like that one. In Sweetheart, April (a.k.a.. AJ, played by Nell Barlow) is trying to figure out just that: who she is.

It's a difficult thing to do, especially when everything from where we live to our name to what we wear is chosen for us. As children, our identity is shaped by other people, and when you reach an age where you can…