Allyson Johnson

Editor-in-Chief

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Allyson is a New England based writer, who has been a film critic since 2012. She is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, and the Online Film Critics Society, along with being a Tomatometer approved critic on Rotten Tomatoes. Her writing can also be found at CambridgeDay.com, ThePlaylist.net, VagueVisages.com, RogerEbert.com, TheMarySue.com and elsewhere.

Love After Love is a painfully honest look at loss and grief

Like its last rattle, death lingers. Grief prescribes no easy to follow manual in how someone deals with the loss of a loved one, especially when that someone was the glue that held so much of a family together. Without…

The Magicians “All That Josh” had one of my favorite scenes of the series to date

It’s difficult to convey sincerity in a manner that feels rich and honest. With modern television (a lot of it at least), an earnest moment will often be cut down by a biting remark mere moments after. Sincerity is a…

Finding Her Voice: A Wrinkle in Time and Book Adaptations [Podcast]

Hello and welcome to TYF’s newest podcast series, Finding Her Voice. Joined by editor in chief Gabrielle Bondi and film and television writer AJ Caulfield, we’ve come together to highlight, celebrate and discuss films directed by women. From the very…

The Magicians Review 3×08 “Six Short Stories About Magic”

Over the course of its three seasons, The Magicians have acquired a number of characters – both in leads and in small, yet crucial roles. As the show has evolved from knock off Harry Potter into its own, miraculously delightful and incomprehensibly absurd beast,…

Annihilation Movie Review: A terrifying and beautiful experience

Life, in Alex Garland’s Annihilation, his follow up to Ex Machina, is a ponderous, methodical, and unbalanced matter. Natalie Portman’s Lena, vacant and distant, states that the mystical “shimmer” isn’t destroying, but “creating something new”. The feverish world Garland has…

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Review: Season three was its best yet

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has never feared dodging convention. From tearing down the mystique of getting ready for a night out and about, to the scary nature casual sexual encounters, the hellish experience of having children, the lies we’re told about “the one”,…

Marvel Movies Ranked

Another year (another season) and yet again, we’re facing down another Marvel release, this time with the wildly enjoyable boundary pushing Black Panther which has already begun to demolish records. With its release and considering Marvel’s pretty fabulous run in the…