Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera, Kaa, Shere Khan, Akela. Reading these names is all it takes to get us excited for Disney’s upcoming live-action film The Jungle Book. If you’ve been following all the trailers and clips for this film in the past…
Is Hail, Caesar! Pro or Anti-Hollywood?
One of the defining features of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Hail, Caesar! are its blatant parodic references to Hollywood or, specifically, to Hollywood in the 1950s. Its glamorous, classic Hollwood aesthetic and throwbacks to 1950s cornball cinema begs a certain…
Sing Teaser: Illumination Entertainment’s “Animal Idol”
Illumination Entertainment, the studio behind the continued success of the Despicable Me franchise, recently released a new teaser for an upcoming animated musical project known only as Sing. With this news, it appears that Illumination has been hard at work cranking their…
Movie Review: ‘Hail, Caesar!’
Every year that the Coen Brothers release a new movie, I treat it like an event. The duo’s glorious, genre-busting brand of filmmaking has made them one of the best auteurs working today, and they surprise me time and time again for…
The Jungle Book Comes To Life In First Trailer For Jon Favreau’s Adaptation.
Full disclosure, I’ve never seen the original Jungle Book movie from 1967. I was never raised on Disney’s animated classics, so I never really felt the need to go back and rediscover them. I’ve also been fairly aggravated with the…
Avengers Age of Ultron: TYF Staff Assemble for Discussion on the Marvel Event Film
With Avengers: Age of Ultron finally in theaters in the United States with a solid $188 Million opening weekend, it’s to be anticipated that the film is talked about at length among us here on The Young Folks staff. So,…
Ally’s Movie Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron
Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are back for a thrilling, fun and–dare I say it?–darker film. While it doesn’t achieve the same feeling as its critically and commercially beloved predecessor, it’s a sequel befitting the model Marvel has created and a success…