The Film Canon: The General (1926)

Long before Buster Keaton’s train engineer sat on his beloved train’s pistons as they rotated up and down,the locomotive had already graced moving images—most famously in 1903’s fictional The Great Train Robbery and, even earlier, in the Lumière Brothers very…

Sicario: Day of Soldado Movie Review: More action, less nuance

As a sequel, Sicario: Day of Soldado stands on its own from predecessor Sicario, but it lacks the nuance of the other film. While there’s certainly more action in this new installment, the story feels light where it requires depth. There…

The Best Films of 2018 So Far

Each year it seems that someone will make the decidedly naive comment about how “it’s been a bad year for films” and every year countless others will have their “well, actually’s” on standby along with a tidy list of titles…

Battlebots Chat: Episode 8×08

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…

Ideal Home Movie Review: Paul Rudd Shines in this Familial Comedy

By just looking at the premise of Ideal Home on a surface only schism, it would appear we have yet another round of adults trapped in the tendrils of arrested development forced to grow up in order to raise a child,…

Music Interview: Emily Hackett

Emily Hackett may sound familiar to you and that’s probably because we chatted with her back in August 2017. We are catching up with her again because she recently released a new single called “Good Intentions”. We spoke to her about…

Video Game Review: Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire played and reviewed for PC. Available on Steam. To say that we have been inundated with countless expansive and complex open world RPG games the last few years is more than an understatement. We have…