It’s not that Jamielyn Lippman’s When the Bough Breaks: A Documentary About Postpartum Depression is a bad movie. It’s well intentioned, heartfelt, and even more importantly, absolutely necessary. After all, postpartum depression is one of the least talked about medical…
Movie Review: The Freedom to Marry
One can’t help but wonder how the looming specter of Donald Trump affected the production of Eddie Rosenstein’s The Freedom to Marry. Filmed over a period of several years, the documentary charts the myriad Supreme Court cases argued in 2015…
Movie Review: Train Driver’s Diary
If you’ve lived in New York City for any extended period of time, you eventually become familiar with all the warning signs on the subway advising passengers to stand behind the yellow line at the station platforms. But within the…
Movie Review: Decanted
Forty-one years ago, the unthinkable happened. In two elite blind tasting wine competitions in Paris, France, California wines beat out their French competitors. It simply couldn’t be. France, the country synonymous with wine, the makers and shapers of wine culture,…
Album Review: Daisy Jopling – “Awakening”
For years now, virtuoso violinist Daisy Jopling’s mission has been to bridge the gap between classical music and more modern genres, invoking creative and stylistic continuities between vastly different forms of world music. Her 2009 album Key to the Classics…
Interview: Daisy Jopling talks new album “Awakening”
To celebrate eclectic violinist Daisy Jopling’s new album “Awakening,” we sat down with her to talk about her life, music, and inspirations. THE YOUNG FOLKS: In your own words, tell us about your new album Awakening. Daisy Jopling: It is…
Interview with ‘Dave Made a Maze’ director, Bill Watterson
Earlier this week, we reviewed Bill Watterson’s new film Dave Made a Maze, a fantasy genre hybrid that saw a group of friends trapped in a handmade maze that took on a life of its own. We sat down with…
