The newest trailer for La La Land is dazzling

If you haven’t yet heard the buzz surrounding Damien Chazelle’s La La Land (including my own euphoric thoughts) then perhaps the latest trailer will help goad you onto the hype train. For what it’s worth as someone who has been lucky enough…

TIFF Review: La La Land

For more TIFF 2016 coverage, go here. Time melts away while watching Damien Chazelle’s latest, La La Land about the nature of being an artist, dating a fellow performer and how dreams and expectations are hard won and that perspective too is…

Album Review: The Lonely Island – “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping” soundtrack

First, don’t expect what could have been: Conner4Real’s second album, Connquest. Tracks from that are  certainly here, and if you want that experience, then pick out “I’m So Humble,” “Equal Rights,” “Finest Girl (Bin Laden Song),” “Mona Lisa,” and “Ibitha.” Nah,…

When Filmmaking Met YouTube: A Chat with Sammy Paul

Superficially, YouTube may seem only a few things. Challenge videos and all-caps click bait, tags and tours, and lots of #spon. There’s a unique and automatic association the public continuously makes with the video-sharing site, one that differs from those…

The Top 10 Biggest Letdowns Of 2015

Bare in mind that these picks are not for the worst films of the year, simply those with massive potential that I felt could have been better. 10. Tomorrowland After how incredible Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol turned out to be,…

TV Review: Jane the Virgin Chapter Twenty-Five

Welcome back to The Young Folks’ Jane the Virgin Season 2 coverage! Click here to read our previous coverage of the series. When you really boil down the bits and pieces of Jane the Virgin, it’s abundantly clear that the relationship between…

Movie Review: ‘Irrational Man’

An oncoming train will kill five people; if you switch the track, only one person will die.  As the engineer of the train, what should you do?  You could appeal to utilitarian ethics, but what if the single person is a…