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…
Movie Review: The Ticket
Dan Stevens delivers a powerhouse performance in Ido Fluk’s philosophical family drama The Ticket. Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, the film tackles themes about faith, the virtues of comfort and the easy descent a man takes when given the slippery…
Movie Review: Shut In
This movie managed to somehow defy expectations—for the better. It has a talented cast and stars Naomi Watts who plays Mary Portman, a widowed child psychologist with a disabled son. As the winter storm approaches her New England town, she…
Tribeca Movie Review: The Ticket
Dan Stevens delivers a powerhouse performance in Ido Fluk’s philosophical family drama The Ticket. Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, the film tackles themes about faith, the virtues of comfort and the easy descent a man takes when given the slippery…
TV Review: Fargo Season 2 Premiere “Waiting for Dutch”
I loved the first season of FX’s Fargo. I loved the ominous tone, the twisted storytelling, and most of all, the many rich characters. Fargo Season 1 was chock-full of wonderfully specific characters. Every single character in Season 1 was dynamic, original, and useful…
2014 Tribeca Film Festival: Chef
I don’t really like saying I’m a “foodie.” It’s almost as if I were to say I’m a “breathie” or a “sleepie” but it’s a word that sticks around and apparently does not get that red line under it as…
Gaby’s Movie Review: ‘Ginger and Rosa’
Sally Potter’s latest film explores friendship, love and family in 1960s London during the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of two teenage girls. Elle Fanning and newcomer Alice Englert play inseparable friends, Ginger and Rosa. The two have done…