Hello and welcome to TYF’s newest podcast series, Finding Her Voice. Joined by editor in chief Gabrielle Bondi and film and television writer AJ Caulfield, we’ve come together to highlight, celebrate and discuss films directed by women. From the very…
Review: WHAT TO SAY NEXT by Julie Buxbaum
As part of the pre-publication blog tour, we are sharing a review for Julie Buxbaum’s newest novel, What to Say Next: After hearing such amazing things about Tell Me Three Things being a cheery contemporary read, I was totally expecting…
Movie Review: Dean
Dean is not, as it purports to be in nearly all of its marketing material, a “comedy about tragedy.” It’s more along the lines of a middling post-mumblecore dramedy about Demetri Martin wish-fulfilling himself into bed with Gillian Jacobs. Granted, that…
The CW’s Best Shows: Ranking the 2016-17 Season
Thanks to The CW’s deal with Netflix, the latest seasons for the network’s slate of shows are now streaming. Which leaves many with the question: Which should show should I catch up with first? And that launches a new series…
Movie Review: I, Daniel Blake
Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake is so unyieldingly empathetic that even its bleakest moments carry an air of triumph. In trying to create his paean to the working man Loach has stripped him of his three-dimensional humanity and replaced it…
Album Review: Erasure – “World Be Gone”
Pop dominated the 1980’s with electronic beats and seemingly endless guitar solos. In the case of Erasure, they took the synth-pop route – and ended up being one of the most successful groups of the era. You might recognize them…
Movie Review: Letters from Baghdad
Despite claims of progressiveness and equality, the fields of twentieth century science, art, and history are bulging with pioneering women who, for one reason or another, have been been shuffled aside in favor of their male colleagues. Rosalind Franklin, Gertrude…