After the Wedding is one of those worst case scenario remakes. In contrast to the devastating emotional beauty of the 2006 Danish film, the 2019 version takes all the basic beats of the source material and regresses nearly each and…
52FilmsbyWomen 2018: The Kids Are All Right [Column]
Film writer AJ Caulfield has taken the #52FilmsbyWomen pledge, where she will watch one movie directed by a women per week throughout 2018. Here on The Young Folks, AJ reflects on the films she’s viewed — including female-directed classics and new-to-the-scene…
Movie Review: Wonderstruck
The thought of Todd Haynes directing a kids movie is, at first glance, inherently odd. Similar to Martin Scorsese tackling Hugo, the established filmmaker behind mature, dense, softly impressionable R-rated films like I’m Not There, Velvet Goldmine, Safe and Carol doesn’t…
Children of Men: 10 Year Anniversary
Children of Men is the dystopic study of societal collapse, revolts, terrorism, class structure and urban decay with its only through-line being the chaos stringing them together. However, the emergence of a pregnant young woman, in a future where the…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘Freeheld’
With the most recent monumental win for the GLBTQ+ community on the marriage equality front, this film depicts one couple’s struggle for equality. A struggle that has been shared by millions in the last 50 years, and even before that. Freeheld…
TIFF Report #3 (Anomalisa, The Assassin, Maggie’s Plan)
Because of malnutrition, dehydration, sleep deprivation, poor hygiene but most influentially seeing way, way too many movies, I have been diagnosed with festival fog. Feeling as though there is an inescapable haze over your memory and intellect, everything melds together…
‘Freeheld’ Trailer with Julianne Moore and Ellen Page
Seems like Julianne Moore is looking forward to another Oscar next year! The first trailer for the upcoming drama film Freeheld was released this week, and I can tell you right now…Oscar Buzz. The film, directed by Peter Sollett and…