The 100 7×02 Review: “The Garden”

In an episode spent entirely off-world, The 100’s second episode of its final season, we explore the world of Sky Ring in two distinct timelines, hundreds of years apart. While the episode began a little bit slow, the latter half…

The 100 Season 7 Review: “From the Ashes”

In The 100’s last premiere ever, the mystery of the anomaly (and what’s on the other side) deepens, while Clarke and company struggle to keep the peace between warring Sanctum factions. Titled “From the Ashes” certainly appears to be a…

TV’s best bottle episodes for our bottle episode life

As Abed Nadir says, this is starting to feel like a bottle episode.  In this time of quarantine and social distancing, it might be beneficial to look back at the very best bottle episodes of television. As we all settle…

Sonic The Hedgehog Review: Is the video game movie curse broken?

After more than a few misfires, Hollywood hasn’t really been in a rush to figure out how to make a good video game movie. Translating games to film has been an issue for years, but there’s no denying that at…

Sylvie’s Love Review: Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha lay on the charm in this extraordinary classical romance | Sundance 2020

The most obvious takeaway from the first beat of Sylvie’s Love—a lavishly directed new period romance from Eugene Ashe, who also wrote the screenplay—is that for his second feature, Ashe clearly has a profound passion for Douglas Sirk’s melodramas of the…

TYF’s Top 50 Albums of 2019

2019 was a long year, wasn’t it? Despite this year being difficult in many ways, it was an excellent 12 months for music. New releases from established icons, cult favorites and breakthrough acts helped define the year, from Lizzo to…

10 Best YA Historical Fiction of 2019

Historical fiction is an amazing genre that brings truth from the past to us today. It can be heartbreaking and heartfelt — and sometimes it includes a smidgen of magic. There is so much to learn from through the lens…