There are some horrors most people are used to: jump scares in movies, the cost of health care, Kanye West’s political tweets, etc. But some things are not meant for the eyes of man and Paramount Pictures decided to tempt…
Mapplethorpe Movie Review: Semi-successful reel of the legendary photographer
Robert Mapplethorpe wanted to live after death, and he did, in a way, since his photographs were the lasting mark he left on the world. But to anyone outside the art landscape, Mapplethorpe, or the biopic that follows the photographer from…
The Magicians 4×5 Review: “Escape From the Happy Place” allows us momentarily to come out of the dark
How much more can you ask for in a television series than the ability to elicit such high strung reactions of joy with the simple words “peaches and plums motherfucker?” Since its inception The Magicians has dared to go bolder…
The Film Canon: Hitchcock the Paranoiac Meets Highsmith the Misanthrope in Strangers on a Train (1951)
When Patricia Highsmith left the theater after seeing Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of her debut novel Strangers on a Train, several thoughts flew through her mind, the only reportedly positive one being her admiration for Robert Walker’s performance as her alcoholic,…
#TYFOscars 2019 Live Twitter Party + Giveaway
In honor of the 91st Academy Awards airing on Sunday, February 24, we are once again throwing a party! Fill out your ballot, charge your phone and sit back and relax for another of our Live Twitter parties where The Young…
Sugar, Spice, and Everything Not-So-Nice: 20 years of Jawbreaker (1999)
Starring the 90s collective of Rebecca Gayheart as the sweet Julie (Scream 2, Urban Legends), Julie Benz as the ditzy Marcie Fox (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel), Judy Greer as the loser-turned-bombshell Fern/Vylette (The Wedding Planner, 13 Going on…
The Vast of Night Review: A small-scale alien abduction tale worthy of ‘The Twilight Zone’
Alien invasion stories are nothing knew to the film canon with plenty of history to contend with when attempting to bring new life to the genre. What The Vast of Night, directed by Andrew Patterson, does so well is put…