The Young Folks presents episode four of the movie podcast, Underseen on the Big Screen. Hosted by Tyler Christian, each episode dives into the overlooked realm of cinema, namely movies that didn’t fare well at the box office but later gained…
Interview: Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton
Directing duo Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton are the couple you want to talk to all day. In just fifteen minutes we conversed about millenial movie attendance, Judy Garland, and getting a sandwich board together to promote the film. The…
TIFF Movie Review: The Shape of Water
To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. Director Guillermo del Toro builds his worlds from the ground up, imbuing his chosen universes with such distinct senses of self that we can’t help but buy immediately into the world he’s drawn. A…
TIFF Review: Euphoria
To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. The English-language debut of Sweden’s Lisa Langseth and her third collaboration with actress Alicia Vikander, their latest outing together suffers from a tonally inconsistent script. Despite two powerful, if distinctly different, performances…
TIFF Movie Review: Stronger
To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. For the first half of David Gordon Green’s film Stronger, based on the book of the same name by Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal), who lost both his legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing,…
The Best Movie Moments of the Summer
We’ve spent a decent amount of time talking about this already, but the summer 2017 movie season has been one to remember. Sure, the box office numbers have been on the…dour side, but the overall quality was remarkable and unusual.…
Dirty Dancing: 30 Years Later
“That was the summer of 1963” opens Dirty Dancing, a movie that set out to create a time capsule for the Kennedy administration and ended up inadvertently doing so for 1987. The inescapable hit that almost wasn’t, this cultural smash…