One of the higher-profile movies to play at this year’s Phoenix Film Festival was Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham’s chronicle of a few days in the life of Kayla (Elsie Fisher), a middle school kid, as she ...

Writer and director Bo Burnham talks with Elsie Fisher on the set of Eighth Grade. Burnham says the anxiety he felt as a young performer helped him understand the social pressure teenage girls can ...

Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade Captures Middle School in the Time of SnapchatBurnham’s directorial breakout is masterful, and it’s rivaled only by the breakout performance of its 14-year-old star Elsie ...

No one in their right mind wants to go back to eighth grade. The chances are you were a victim, and would prefer to have middle school wiped from your memory altogether. Or maybe you victimized others ...

“Eighth Grade” is so spot-on, so painstakingly realistic, you may think you’ve stumbled into a documentary. The credit goes to first-time writer-director Bo Burnham and to whoever the casting genius ...

Bundle up! Temperatures in the 20s this Friday morning will climb into the 30s by the afternoon. by GOOD MORNING WASHINGTON TOPICS: WASHINGTON (ABC7) — We all remember the trials of middle school, ...

Is there anything more uncomfortable than a middle school pool party? How about one you were only invited to because a popular girl's mom has a crush on your dad? That's what Kayla (Elsie Fisher) is ...

I distinctly remember sitting down in a movie theater late one Friday afternoon to watch Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade” with my mother. I was approaching seventh grade, unsure of my friendships, unclear ...