It’s been seven years since the world saw tattooed, eyebrow-less hacker Lisbeth Salander on the big-screen, and things are looking a little different this time around. Sony Pictures released the first trailer for The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the newest…
Hereditary Movie Review: Ari Aster Has Created Something Terrifyingly Dreadful and Magnificent
Full disclosure — when it comes to horror, you’ll typically find me hiding behind my hands, but nothing has shaken me more than Ari Aster’s Hereditary. At just over two hours, it’s an unrelenting, dread-inducing portrait of a family descending…
Battlebots Chat: Episode 8×04
For this new season of Battlebots, The Young Folks’ music editor Ryan Gibbs and staff 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…
How Independent Films are Turning the Genre into Reflections of Our Societal and Internal Terrors
In October 2017, GQ published a staggering article covering this new Golden Age of Horror Movies. It’s true, this cultural moment is quite the horror renaissance. These movies aren’t just terrifying, they’re smart, and well written. There is a matter…
American Animals Movie Review: A Keen Eye in the Director Chair Elevates a Basic Narrative
American Animals is based on one of the most ridiculous heists in recent memory. In 2004, four mostly well-off college students planned to steal valuable books from Transylvania University’s library in Lexington, Kentucky. These four boys thought they were clever,…
Book Review: Zenn Diagram by Wendy Brant
What would you do if touching another human being meant discovering their pain, hurt or deepest darkest secrets? For Eva (pronounced Ay-va) Walker, it means living a life devoid of human touch. It’s exactly what it sounds like – solitary…
The Americans Series Finale Review: “START”
To describe The Americans’ series finale would make the ending sound vaguely anti-climactic: long-established relationships end without much resolution, characters are only given half-hearted farewells, and deep-seated emotions are still sort of left hanging in the air. But in this half-digested…