There’s no denying The Nightingale is a difficult watch. (When the theater manager says they have psychologists waiting outside if you need to leave, it’s pretty serious.) But while The Nightingale is punishing in its depiction of sexual violence, there’s…
Best Decades in Horror: The 2010’s and the female film directors revolutionizing modern horror
If horror storytelling were an unassembled IKEA wardrobe, women would be the scrappy DIY-er who pieces it together. From Mary Shelley’s ground-shattering Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House…
The Young Folks’ Best Movies of 2014
The Young Folks team has come together to list the very best in entertainment and pop culture for the year 2014! 2014 was a wonderfully eclectic year in movies with few common threads aside from independent cinema making a tremendous…
Jon’s Movie Review: “The Babadook” Jumps Out of the Pages and Beyond the Screen
Children’s books can be terrifying. As an adult, I can look back and laugh at how scared I was at this one: “Strega Nona”. The title translates to Grandma Witch. She has a pot that could make infinite amounts of…
Chicago International Film Festival Winners and Must Sees!
Film festivals are a dime a dozen. Anyone can have a film festival, as you have seen with the most recent Internet Cat Video Festival. Many of them fizzle out, but only the truly amazing ones pass the test of…