Avengers 2 – Heroes of 2015 and Beyond

Iron Man 3 came out internationally last week, while those of us in the States have to wait until this Friday! Stay tuned, because The Young Folks will have a review for it coming up soon. With the launch of…

Phillip Phillips Goes Back To College

American Idol season 11 winner Phillip Phillips is currently embarking on the first tour of his career. He recently visited a number of colleges and universities around the country to perform for their students. It’s easy to put an artist…

Top 10 Moments of Marvel’s Phase One

If you haven’t already heard, this week was the release of Marvel’s Phase One Box Set, which included Blu-Ray versions of all of the films, deleted scenes and footage never seen before. It’s been long awaited, and if you must…

Top 10 Most Underrated Director/Writers of Hollywood

About a week ago, I was thinking about the film, Friends With Benefits, which was on TV at the time. I thought about how Will Gluck’s (director of Easy A and director/writer of Fired Up! and Friends With Benefits) movies had been written off…

Interview: Max Irons & Jake Abel Talk ‘The Host,’ Saoirse Ronan & More!

A couple weeks ago, I was part of a roundtable interview with two stars of The Host, the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling science fiction novel. Max Irons plays Jared, a human survivor and rebel, hiding in an alien-invaded…

PAX East 2013: Dinosaur’s MechKnight – The Indie Game Takeover

Penny Arcade Expo is one of those events that is fascinatingly overwhelming for a first time attendee. You can barely experience the potential of PAX East in a single day at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, let alone describe…

Read of the Week: The Lifeguard by Deborah Blumenthal

It’s an unsettled summer for Sirena. Back in Texas, her family’s splitting apart, but here in Rhode Island, at the cottage of her free-spirited aunt, it’s a different world. There are long days at the beach and intriguing encounters with…