Alongside Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba (1964), Humberto Solás’ Lucía (1968) was one of the formative texts of the new Cuban cinema established in the wake of Fidel Castro’s 1959 Cuban Revolution. Where Kalatozov’s film was a Mosfilm Soviet co-production,…
Into the Dark: The Body Review | LAFF 2018
This review contains spoilers for Hulu’s The Body. Into the Dark has an interesting premise: a 12-month horror anthology series for every holiday. The Body is the Halloween installment, making its premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival and set…
Book Review: The Perfect Secret by Rob Buyea
If you’re a fan of Rob Buyea’s first installment of The Perfect Score series – eponymously named The Perfect Score! – then you’d better mark your calendars for the publication of his second installment, The Perfect Secret. Here’s a little…
Banned Books Week: Life without Variety
Try to imagine it. You enter a library looking for a new book to mentally devour after that last YA novel left you hungry for another good read. As you enter the library, you see this cardboard cut-out of the…
The Wrong Todd Review | LAFF 2018
The Wrong Todd isn’t concerned with the hard and fast rules of parallel universe jumping. It doesn’t need to be. In its stripped down format, those big science fiction details are only the vehicle for telling a lovely story about friendship,…
Assassination Nation Movie Review: A fun but forgettable play on genre
In its 110-minute runtime Assassination Nation covers as much depressing, violent and timely content as your local cable news channel covers in a week. You see all of these topics and issues from the perspective of high school students with the…
Battlebots Chat: Episode 8×17
For this new season of Battlebots, The Young Folks’ music editor Ryan Gibbs and contributing writer Joey Daniewicz will be giving their impressions of each episode in our recurring feature Battlebots Chat. These will be a little more informal than…