Following it’s surprising win of the Best Picture award at the 2017 Academy Awards celebration, Moonlight, the little picture that could, introduced itself to a larger audience. This movie was a smashing success in the entertainment industry for the incredible performances,…
The Best Science Fiction Films of the 21st Century
If you haven’t heard, the hotly anticipated Blade Runner: 2049 has hit theaters and has mildly obliterated minds. It’s one of those wonderful reminders of just how powerful good science fiction films can be, as something that is equal parts introspective, reflective…
Music at the Movies 2015
The movies are nothing without music. Whether it be a perfectly queued indie song (Me and Girl and the Dying Girl) or a score that subtly crawls under your skin, settled and calm (Room) music is the medium that…
Images And Identities: Top 5 Uses Of Mirrors In 2015
Mirrors and their reflections are a complex signifier in cinema, a visual tool used to dramatize framing, while, also, a symbol of vanity, image, and identity. Influenced by the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, there is a tradition in film theory that…
TYF Picks: Best Films of the Decade (So Far…)
I have an epic scaled argument in me (that plenty have heard bits and pieces of already) ready to be lobbed at any and all whom deem modern cinema to be any lesser than the classics. Halfway through the 2010’s…
The Best Realistic Science Fiction Films
Science fiction often focuses its attention on the second part of the name, but every once in a while a film looks to the future but grounds itself in harder concepts of what is and is not possible. Here are just a few sci-fi movies that are a more realistic depiction of the future.