Gabrielle Bondi

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Gabrielle founded The Young Folks in 2010 with Luciana Villalba. Since then, she has served as editor-in-chief and oversees the staff and editorial content on The Young Folks. She recently graduated from Northwestern University and is now working on her master's degree at the Medill School of Journalism.

Film News: First Official Images of Sofia Coppola’s THE BLING RING with Emma Watson

We reported that Emma Watson was cast in Sofia Coppola’s upcoming film, The Bling Ring, a couple months ago. Well, while at the Cannes Film Festival, the first official images of the film were unveiled. The pictures give us the…

Book Review: ‘The Immortal Rules’ by Julie Kagawa

I always like to point out emerging or overdone genres within contemporary YA literature. We definitely have seen a surge in the supernatural, in particular vampires (Thank you, Twilight). Then, with the success of The Hunger Games, dystopias of all…

Book Review: ‘Timepiece: An Hourglass Novel’ by Myra McEntire

As usual, I generally choose what books to read by the buzz surrounding them. Last year, I saw many blogs talking about Myra McEntire’s Hourglass. I kept it in mind for a long while and recently finally got a chance…

Film Review: MEN IN BLACK III, starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones & Josh Brolin

One of my all-time favorite movies as a kid was Men in Black. My brother and I would watch it almost every day. We loved everything about it: the action, humor, aliens and story. A few years later, Men in…

Book Review: ‘Until I Die’ (Revenants #2) by Amy Plum

The Revenants series first attracted me with its setting: Paris. I love Paris and am kind of obsessed with it. It seems that I rarely get opportunities to read stories based in France. When I heard that Die for Me,…

Film Review: ‘The Intouchables,’ starring Omar Sy & François Cluzet

Thinking over all the theatrical releases I’ve watched so far in 2012, not too many stand out. Of course, big box office movies like The Hunger Games and The Avengers instantly come to mind. Yet, The Intouchables, a foreign language…

New Trailer Round Up: Anchorman 2, Skyfall, Magic Mike and more!

Quite a few trailers have premiered the last week and today. Here’s a round-up of the most interesting movies to make their trailer premieres on the internet. Let us know which ones you’re looking the most forward to! The famous…