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. My New Year’s resolution…
Take a look at the first trailer for Lovesong
Directed by So Yong Kim, Lovesong seems to be happily approaching the romance genre with a different attitude and point of view. The love story between two lonely women, here played by Jena Malone and 2016 breakout Riley Keough, is captured in the…
Vanessa Hudgens is Powerless in new comedy series
Have you ever wondered what happens after a superhero saves the day in your local town? He or she goes back home, happy the battle was won while us mortals are left with a huge mess and feeling insecure to…
TV Review: Star Series Premiere
Director and creator of Empire, Lee Daniels is back with a potential crowd pleasing hit, revolving around three talented young singers who navigate the music business on their road to success. At its core, Lee Daniels’ Star revolves around the…
TV Review: Vikings 4×16 “Crossings”
It’s dark, unforgiving world without Ragnar on this week’s Vikings episode “Crossings,” which felt more like a filler episode leading up to the foreboding all out war we can expect to see in the last leg of the season. For the first…
Movie Review: The Ardennes
When I finished Robin Pront’s The Ardennes, I knew I needed to sleep on it. I simply felt too many conflicting emotions. Did I like the film and its bizarre genre pastiches? Its intense Clint Eastwood/Coen Brothers color-grading that submerged…
Album Review: “Run the Jewels 3” By Run the Jewels
In 2013, Killer Mike and El-P formed Run the Jewels, the exhilarating hip-hop duo that gave both third-decade music veterans the widespread media love and voluptuous public adoration they both deserved decades prior. Only a year later did they produce…