I’m as big of a feminist as I am a fan of films, both of which are definitive parts of my personality. This year, due to the influence of some fantastic blogs and my own personal annoyance at the male…
TYF Picks: Best Films of the Decade (So Far…)
I have an epic scaled argument in me (that plenty have heard bits and pieces of already) ready to be lobbed at any and all whom deem modern cinema to be any lesser than the classics. Halfway through the 2010’s…
Movie News: First Trailer for Oscar Hopeful The Danish Girl
September is here which means that while I’m still kicking sand off of my shoes we’re also officially into the overlong but irresistible Oscar season as the big festival juggernauts begin to hit the ground running. Today we saw the…
Movie Review: ‘We Are Your Friends’
As James Reed (Wes Bentley) proclaims to aspiring DJ Cole Carter (Zac Efron) early on in We Are Your Friends, “Imitation is suicide.” Even before the film reached its conclusion, I couldn’t help but find a good amount of self-reflexive irony…
Ally’s Movie Review: Queen of Earth
On a technical, detached and mildly unfun standpoint, I got why people liked Listen up Philip. The writing and delivery of the dialogue was acidic and the performers were strong but I just couldn’t bring myself to care. I watched…
Ally’s Movie Review: ‘Testament of Youth’
I foolishly believed that there was a chance this would be a happy film. I had no prior knowledge of the book this film is based on before watching the film, and I can’t say if I’m happy about that…
Ally’s Movie Review: “Jurassic World”
There are moments in Jurassic World that strike that magic chord of action adventure films that makes us think of our childhood. Moments of complete disbelief, moments where we believe in the impossible, moments when the girl rescues the guy:…