We are excited to team up with Disney Book Group to give away The Tyrant’s Tomb prize pack to one lucky reader. The Tyrant’s Tomb is the fourth installment to Rick Riordan’s The Trials of Apollo series. Enter for a chance…
Interview: The Lion King’s JD McCrary and Shahadi Wright Joseph Talk with TYF
Can you feel the nostalgia tonight? Disney’s crown jewel, The Lion King, gets the live-action treatment (well, the photo-realistic animation treatment anyway) with the help of Childish Gambino and Beyoncé to name a few. We at The Young Folks had…
The Lion King Movie Review: Disney laughs in the face of remake fatigue
In many ways, Disney has long applied the “circle of life” philosophy to its classic animated movies, now routinely reborn and recycled into “live-action re-imaginings.” But it’s only recently that the studio has drawn from the well of its 90s-era…
Aladdin Review: Disney’s Live-Action Remake is Enjoyable, but Lacks Some of the Magic
It’s hard to describe what a movie means to you when its live-action remake is still littered with problems and Orientalism in 2019, but to say I wasn’t still looking forward to Disney’s Aladdin would be an understatement. Thankfully, director…
Breakthrough Movie Review: Weird Christianity, Weirder Timing
Who needs miracles, anyway? After all, Breakthrough is coming out at a time when just about everyone not only feels like they could use a miracle right about now, but almost all of them have the means through social media to broadcast their deserved woes. Here is a film framed and wired with Judeo-Christian principles as a trojan horse of supposedly enlightened messaging keen on both evangelizing the uninitiated and soothing the believers into further submission. This is Breakthrough, a film bent on preaching to the choir with emotional hand-wringing. It’s just a shame the sermon has only the trappings of substance or spiritual investigation.
Book Giveaway: Win ‘Aladdin: Far from Agrabah’ and a Magic Carpet Blanket
We are excited to team up with Disney Book Group to give away an Aladdin: Far from Agrabah prize pack to one lucky reader. Enter for a chance to win below. GIVEAWAY FAR FROM AGRABAH! Transport yourself to a faraway world!…
Lin-Manuel Miranda Talks about His Real Life Mary Poppins
After 54 years of waiting, Mary Poppins makes her long awaited return to the big screen in Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns. Now before you start jumping for joy, make sure to catch our one on one interview with the film’s…