This year TheYoungFolks is proud to cover the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) which seeks to spotlight contemporary and recent Asian filmmaking. Additional information, screening schedules, and contact information for the festival can be found HERE. We begin today…
Movie Review: “My Love, Don’t Cross That River”- Love, Life, and Loss in the Korean Mountains
I always know when a movie will make me cry, starting as a deep swelling in the chest. The throat tightens up, the joints go loose, and soon the hot drops drip down the cheeks. If a movie is good, or…
Movie Review: The Last Heist—Serially Confused
All too often the media gets the idea of a serial killer and a mass murderer mixed up. A serial killer is somebody who kills two or more victims for abnormal psychological reasons, usually with a “cooling off” period in-between…
Movie Review: Now You See Me 2 | The magic is gone
At a certain point you need to accept that the Now You See Me franchise—and it most certainly has been engineered as such—is about superheroes, not magicians. Like with the first film, Jon M. Chu’s Now You See Me 2…
Movie Review: The Idol | A Palestinian Star is Born
I didn’t know Hany Abu-Assad’s The Idol was based on a true story until the end when the film began to cross-cut documentary footage that looked just a bit too realistic for it to be simple recreations. Sure enough, the…
Why You Shouldn’t Care That Captain America is a Nazi (But Why You SHOULD Care About the Outrage)
75 years a hero. 75 years an icon. 75 years an emblem of all that was good and just and noble about America. About the American Dream. About the American people. 75 years a traitor. This past Wednesday, Marvel Comics…
