“Then there was Scream—a film that sliced into mid-90s culture like a hot buck knife through pig’s blood. For a lot of us overexposed millennials, it was the first time we’d seen a movie about movies—the first time we even realized that was a thing you could do. It was scary as hell, with compelling characters and wicked tension. But it was hilarious too. It skewered and deconstructed films we grew up on. For me, it still marks the beginning of the post-irony age in Hollywood. The lines between sincere and satirical were smeared into a compounding trend that would lead us all the way to the anxious present, complete with the Barbie movie, Borat, and Kim Kardashian.”