‘Jerry and Marge Go Large’ review: Mediocre in the middle

How times can change. Only a decade or so ago, a mid-budget character drama like Jerry and Marge Go Large, which recently premiered on Paramount+, would’ve gotten a modest, but wide release in a theater near you. Much like the…

52FilmsbyWomen 2018: The Kids Are All Right [Column]

Film writer AJ Caulfield has taken the #52FilmsbyWomen pledge, where she will watch one movie directed by a women per week throughout 2018. Here on The Young Folks, AJ reflects on the films she’s viewed — including female-directed classics and new-to-the-scene…

Movie Review: Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

Hollywood may have lost the moniker of “The Dream Factory,” but those dreams remain alive in the stories told about the Golden Era’s heyday. The latest in this genre of celebrity biopics is Paul McGuigan’s Film Stars Don’t Die in…

Movie Review: 20th Century Women

We’re all shaped by two things: the people who raise us and the decade that inspires us. Writer/director Mike Mills has explored one side of his unique upbringing with 2010’s Beginners, the story of his closeted, cancer-ridden father and how…

Effervescent New Trailer for 20th Century Women

The second trailer for 20th Century Women, the upcoming Mike Mills film has been released.  Mills is an artist, designer and award-winning director, whose 2011 film Beginners gained widespread acclaim. Similarities have already been drawn between the two films, both…

Jon’s Movie Review: “Danny Collins” Aspires to Inspire

Films based on a true story can rarely keep true to the source material. It’s inevitable, and sometimes understandable. Sacrifices have to be made, and as long as the deviations are made for the sake of a greater cinematic experience,…

The Film Canon: American Beauty (1999)

It begins with the voice over of a dead man. If you recall, Billy Wilder’s black comic masterpiece Sunset Blvd. also begins with narration courtesy of a corpse. Like William Holden and Gloria Swanson in American Beauty‘s cinematic ancestor, the…