After more than a few misfires, Hollywood hasn’t really been in a rush to figure out how to make a good video game movie. Translating games to film has been an issue for years, but there’s no denying that at…
Millicent Simmonds on the Need for Diverse Representation in Film and Working with John Krasinski in ‘A Quiet Place’ [Interview]
Horror films often fall into the same cliches and deliver cheap scares that don’t end up being scary at all. If you can see it coming, it’s not effective. That’s where A Quiet Place subverts the usual tricks, giving us scares…
Daddy’s Home 2 Giveaway: Enter to Win a Home for the Holidays Kit
We have partnered with Paramount Pictures to give away a special prize pack, inspired by the new film, Daddy’s Home 2. One lucky TYF reader will win the Home for the Holidays kit, which includes: a luxury suitcase (value $700)…
Movie Review: Silence
Like a good deal of Martin Scorsese’s films, Silence handles the subject of faith in a complex and humanistic way; the legendary American filmmaker transmutes the torment, humiliation and suffering of two young, idealistic Jesuit priests, by the fiendish censors of Feudal Japan,…
Final trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival” released
Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival made quite an impression on this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Our own Allyson Johnson called it “an emotional experience” in her film review back on September. Even though they film uses aliens as the main plot story,…
Movie Review: ‘The Little Prince’
The Little Prince is an adaptation of a widely acclaimed children’s book (of the same name) by author and artist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Unfortunately, adapting any book comes with intense scrutiny from its readers, most of whom would sooner outright…
Movie Review: Zoolander 2
Who here has seen Anchorman 2? Most moviegoers would agree that, despite the sequel not happening until 10 years had passed since the original, it was still a worthy and humorous addition to the Anchorman legacy. So, keeping this in mind,…