David Plumer
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David has been with the Young Folks since the summer of 2012 as a writer. His favorite film is Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch Drunk Love and his favorite television show is Louie. You can contact him at david@theyoungfolks.com

Album Review: Porches ‘Pool’

Released on February 5, Porches’ second album, Pool, is only the second new album I’ve listened to this year next to David Bowie’s Blackstar, so I guess that makes Pool the second greatest album I’ve heard in 2016 so far…

UPDATE: TYF Beatles Podcast Postponed

  Two weeks ago, a short article was published about a TYF Beatles podcast involving myself (David Plumer) and an outside contributor. The podcast itself, reviewing The Beatles’ debut, Please Please Me, was posted a few days later. With reasons ranging from…

TYF Reviews The Beatles!

The Young Folks’ David Plumer and off-site contributor, Liam Butler, are reviewing every Beatles album ever from Please Please Me to Let It Be . . . but not Yellow Submarine. Who needs Yellow Submarine anyways? While there are no…

TV Throwback Review: Get a Life (1×01) “Terror on the Hell Loop 2000”

*Reviews will generally be released on Monday from this point on and will encompass two episodes each Get a Life creator David Mirkin and the show’s writers (which included the then-unknown screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman, now known for the quirk and dark humor of…

The Subtle Brilliance of the Cloverfield Monster

  *This seemingly random retrospective of Cloverfield was originally going to be featured as part of tomorrow’s Jaws 40th anniversary retrospective. In the retrospective, several TYF writers talk about their favorite movie monsters and what makes them their favorite. The length of my contribution…

10-Second TV Review: Constantine (1×10) – “Quid Pro Quo″

Overview:  The plot may be a bit clichéd, the dialogue a bit cheesy, and it might not be as outwardly enjoyable as “The Saint of Last Resorts – Part 2” yet “Quid Pro Quo” has still got plenty going for…

TV Review: Constantine (1×09) – “The Saint of Last Resorts – Part 2″

I was initially really disappointed that this episode did not take place in Hell. I mean… it’s a show about an exorcist; a Hell episode was not farfetched or anything. I convinced myself that that was what the cliffhanger at…