Quinn Shephard is a force to be reckoned with. A wise-beyond-her-years wunderkind of sorts, Shephard was doing in her teenage youth what many don’t get around to until their mid-twenties: writing the script for a feature film (that would become…
52FilmsbyWomen 2018: The Kids Are All Right [Column]
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 new-to-the-scene…
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…
Album Review: Bleachers – “Gone Now”
Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? That’s the question singer-songwriter-musician-every other stellar hyphen Jack Antonoff asks in Gone Now, his sophomore album as indie pop act Bleachers. From its title—either a…
The 5 Best Episodes of Mad Men
From the moment a blank silhouette first came tumbling down in a cityscape free-dive in an oft-imitated credits scene, Mad Men grabbed its viewers by the collar and guided them along what would become an eight-year journey freckled with a…
Song Review: Ricky Montgomery & The Honeysticks – “Out Like a Light”
It’s better when they’re together. In the year since I last visited Ricky Montgomery’s music (officially, at least), there has been a fundamental shift. A change of tides necessary to give way to something sticky and sweet. Literally. Montgomery, a singer-songwriter…
The Cranberries Release Acoustic Version of “Linger”
Irish rock band The Cranberries are set to release a stripped-down album entitled Something Else, coming to record stores, iTunes, and Spotify worldwide in late April. The album will feature pulled-back, acoustic versions of their iconic singles alongside three never-before-heard tracks. One…
