Im Si-Wan’s new drama Boyhood (also known as Once Upon a Boyhood) is a highly anticipated and much-awaited South Korean series. The comedy K-drama is set in the 80’s and revolves around friendship and ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Boyhood is a coming-of-age story about a young boy, but, more practically, the film was a vehicle for local actors whose previous experience including acting in children’s shows. Here, they developed ...

Writer-director Richard Linklater filmed his coming-of-age drama “Boyhood” over a period of 12 years. He used the same actors throughout the production. It’s a remarkable way to make a movie, ...

In an impressively ambitious project, director Richard Linklater has created a film that uses the same cast over 12 years. There are few stories in Hollywood as ubiquitous as the coming of age drama.

Richard Linklater‘s new film “Boyhood,” at almost three hours, overflows with beauty, truth, ingenuity, humanity and tenderness, and it firmly places the director in the pantheon of cinema’s great ...