There's so much to love in today's piece: It's nostalgic, it's fun and it's about movies. Why wouldn't you love it? As Sam Darby writes, "I love showing '90s TV shows and movies to my 10-year-old. From Boy Meets World to Jumanji and everything in between, the era was the best for entertainment geared toward kids. But the '90s also meant kids watched a lot of movies that weren't meant for them, and I honestly think it's time to show our own tweens some of these '90s dark comedies. How are they going to handle high school if they never watched Jawbreaker?"
"'Strong Southern women' is basically a Hollywood movie genre at this point: Steel Magnolias, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood... I could keep going," Kelly Faircloth writes. "But one holds a special place in my heart, and that's Fried Green Tomatoes. There are a lot of reasons — it's funny; it's a tear-jerker; it was filmed minutes from the house where I grew up; and it's a romantic (if sad) Southern queer love story. But standing on the edge of middle age, I rewatched it and found a new reason to love it: Evelyn Couch is kind of a perimenopausal icon." Let her tell you why.
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