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…
Video Game Review: Yakuza 6
Before playing this title, I had never known about the Yakuza series. What lured me to Yakuza 6 was my soft spot for anything Japanese and the fact that I may or may not have found the protagonist super attractive.…
Ibiza Movie Review: Netflix Comedy Charms With Parties And Punchlines
Hollywood is at a loss at what to do with the romantic comedy. Aside from films such as Bridesmaids, A League of Their Own, The Devil Wears Prada and especially last year’s smash hit Girls Trip, the sexist nature of the…
Solo: A Star Wars Story Review: Alden Ehrenreich Kills it as the Scruffy Nerf Herder
Solo: A Star Wars Story had everything going against it; the behind the scenes drama, shortage of marketing, and the lack of excitement in general seemed to dig a hole for the film that seemed impossible to climb out of.…
The Americans 6×09 Review: “Jennings, Elizabeth”
The Americans’ penultimate episode, titled “Jennings, Elizabeth,” perhaps serves as little more than pure rising action, but its phenomenal sense of drama keeps the suspense character-rich and inundated in the show’s main theme: the conflict between national and personal identity. Until…
Music Interview: Matthew Murphy of the Wombats
Known for their melodic, chaotic fusion of synth-pop and indie rock, English rock band the Wombats earned themselves a dedicated following with The Guide to Love, Loss, and Desperation, This Modern Glitch, and 2015’s Glitterbug. Their albums have sold over…
The Royals 4×10 Review: “With Mirth in Funeral and With Dirge in Marriage”
The Plan Begins The season four finale of The Royals opens with a royal wedding scene, complete with a church chorus’ cover of Radiohead’s “Creep.” I immediately decide that the church chorus cover of “Creep” is my favorite part of…