Since he days on the popular teen drama Dawson’s Creek Katie Holmes has carved out a nice film career for herself and now she’s dipping her feet into directing with All We Had. Aside from directing, she also stars in the movie…
Movie Review: Monster Trucks
One has to admire the sheer audacity behind Paramount’s injudicious Monster Trucks. Conceived by a studio executive’s four-year-old son (no joke), it’s a buddy sci-fi action-comedy where a guileless-yet-stubborn-and-moody small-town loner teen/car aficionado named Tripp, played by a fully-grown 26-year-old Lucas…
Album Review: The xx – “I See You”
Here’s the scene: a crowded house party, well past midnight. Liquor has been flowing, maybe some illegal party favors tossed around. The lights are low and the music has faded to subtle background noise. Everyone at the party is snuggled…
Movie Review: Sleepless
January, we meet again. The cornerstone of shelved projects and blatant mediocrity weighs its presence every year for movies that release throughout the aforementioned month. When you put the awards contender theater expansions aside, there’s rarely a “real” January movie that stands out as…
Melody on Music: Sleeping Beauty
Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. Beginning in 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past…
TV Review: Sleepy Hollow 4×02 “In Plain Sight”
Lie detecting witches have been let loose in Washington D.C., the hot-bed of betrayal and deception, in this week’s episode of Sleepy Hollow “In Plain Sight,” which set the series on more serious tone with little room for our weekly…
TV Review: Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD 4×09 “Broken Promises”
Welcome back to the new year coverage of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. Yes, our favorite show has returned for its winter premiere, giving us some response to shocking turns of our mid-season finale. Long story short, Ghost Rider sacrificed himself…