The Lights are Still On — 9 Capsules from the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Film Festival this year has been…weird. Naturally, certain changes were inevitable thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the festival’s scrambled response resulted in an unusual system where only major, triple-A publications were given access to their complete screener…

10 Books That Reimagine Arthurian Tales in a Modern Way

Most know about King Arthur through class reading or from watching The Sword in the Stone. But lately, there have been a lot of stories based on Arthurian legends that are popping up. It’s no surprise that authors are thrilled…

Parasite Review: Bong Joon-ho creates the most important film of the year

Editor’s Note: This review discusses major plot details of the film. There have recently been incredible films about the dark sides of race relations, in comedy, high drama, and even horror; Beautiful and poignant masterpieces that tackle the lives and…

Scare Me Silly: Kay Cannon, Please Direct a Rosemary’s Baby Remake

Humans have gotten exceptionally good at evolution, at Darwin’s grand idea of natural selection, at not dying sooner than we should. We live in sturdier homes now than even our great-grandparents did — homes our ancestors may not have even…

Mary Shelley Movie Review: An emotionally tumultuous look at an artist’s inner demons

There’s no worth in trying to deny that Mary Shelley is an utterly familiar biopic. Much more though in the vein of a Victorian era literary adaptation (think Far From the Madding Crowd) than something as strategic and cold as The Imitation Game, the…

10,000 Posts Later… TYF Editors reflect on their favorite articles

Today may not be an anniversary, but it’s definitely a milestone as The Young Folks hits 10,000 posts with the publication of this article. How do you celebrate creating 10,000 different and wonderful pieces of content? As much as we…

Blame Director, Writer, and Star Quinn Shephard [Interview]

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…