This year TheYoungFolks is proud to cover the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) which seeks to spotlight contemporary and recent Asian filmmaking. Additional information, screening schedules, and contact information for the festival can be found HERE. We continue today…
NYAFF Round Up #3: CREEPY (2016), JAGAT (2015), WHAT A WONDERFUL FAMILY! (2016)
This year TheYoungFolks is proud to cover the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) which seeks to spotlight contemporary and recent Asian filmmaking. Additional information, screening schedules, and contact information for the festival can be found HERE. We continue today…
Movie Review: Les Cowboys — A passable French update of an American classic
They arrive wearing blue jeans and Stetson hats, bolo ties tugged up round their necks. They dance to Country and Western songs, boots stomping the time. American and Texan flags wave in the wind. If not for their accents, one…
Movie Review: The Phenom — Trauma and healing on the baseball diamond
Usually films revolving around patient-psychiatrist relationships climax with a shouting match. The patient, weary enough to let their emotional guard down, lashes out. Sometimes it’s toward the psychiatrist. Sometimes it’s toward themselves. And like a fencer spotting an opening, the…
Movie Review: Seattle Road — One of the worst kinds of bad movie
Well! Somebody has been taking notes from the Terrence Malick playbook! Ryan David’s directorial début Seattle Road feels like a frantic synthesis of all the more frustrating elements of Malick’s oeuvre, in particular that sneaking suspicion one gets about halfway…
Movie Review: Vigilante Diaries — Offensive and offensively bad on every level
You know those horror stories you always hear about casting calls? The ones with the outrageous, sexist, racist demands for actors and actresses? I think I just found the film responsible for about 90% of them. I can see them…
NYAFF Round Up #2: GRACE (2016), THE BOYS WHO CRIED WOLF (2015)
This year TheYoungFolks is proud to cover the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) which seeks to spotlight contemporary and recent Asian filmmaking. Additional information, screening schedules, and contact information for the festival can be found HERE. We continue today…
