Many viewers might be put off by the first third of Bryan Reisberg’s Big Significant Things, a film about an indecisive twenty-something named Craig Harrison (Harry Lloyd) who lies to his girlfriend, skips town, and goes on a road trip…
Movie Review: ‘Catch Me Daddy’
Most thrillers spend the first five-ten-fifteen minutes establishing characters and atmosphere before the tension and suspense starts. Daniel Wolfe’s new thriller Catch Me Daddy takes the odd approach of instead using the first twenty-five to thirty minutes. I call it odd…
Interview with Kimberly Levin
Following the release of her original film RUNOFF, The Young Folks was honored to sit down and talk with director Kimberly Levin about the film, her influences as a filmmaker, and the trials, tribulations, and rewards of independent filmmaking. Our…
Movie Review: ‘Runoff’
When you take away a man’s dignity / He can’t work his fields and cows there’ll be Blood on the scarecrow / Blood on the plow – “Rain on the Scarecrow,” John Cougar Mellencamp Usually when movie characters turn to a life of crime,…
Movie Review: ‘Max’
It’s been a while since we’ve had an old fashioned boy-and-his-dog movie, hasn’t it? And with the recent release of Boaz Yakin’s Max (2015), it looks like we’ll have to wait even longer before we see a good one. The…
Movie Review: ‘The Wolfpack’
What is there to make of Crystal Moselle’s The Wolfpack (2015), a strange, eccentric documentary about an even stranger, more eccentric family of homeschooled children in New York City who spent the majority of their lives trapped in their father’s…
A Feminist Defense of Claire Dearing in ‘Jurassic World’
[Spoilers Ahead] Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World seems to have issues with its female characters. First off, there’s a weird insistence that Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard), the highly career-motivated operations manager of the film’s titular dinosaur theme park, could solve all…
