Remakes and politically-charged thrillers are hard to do, especially when they’re put together. Every decade has had real-life tragedy and political climates for Hollywood to build movies off of. Atomic weapons, Internet hacking, drones, terrorism and Communism have all been…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘The Martian’
The Martian doesn’t contain anywhere near the intellectual depth of Interstellar because it doesn’t need to. Instead of focusing on mind-melting logic, it wants to stimulate a different muscle: The heart. Not the physical heart, although there are more than a…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘Z for Zachariah’
The end of the world doesn’t always come with a bang and large amounts of carnage. The aftermath isn’t always a dystopian society run by tweens or a Mad Maxian style anarchist society that worships water. Sometimes the end of…
Matt Damon is ‘The Martian’
Ridley Scott alert for all fans! FOX just released the new trailer for The Martian, Scott’s upcoming film. We’ve gotten a few glimpses of it over the last few months, but now we get a clear vision of what the…
‘Secret in Their Eyes’ Official Trailer
Back in 2009, Argentine director Juan José Campanella stole everyone’s attention with the crime thriller El Secreto de sus Ojos, the film that won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards. Since then, Hollywood has…
Oscar Predictions 2014
With Thor himself (Chris Hemsworth) announcing this years nominees for 86th annual Academy Awards, it’s time The Young Folks put out some of their own predictions before the nominees are set in stone. In a fashion, this year’s Awards Race…
Gotham Awards 2013 Winners
The 23rd Gotham Independent Film Awards took place and as always, they were predictably bizarre with some highlighted moments. There was a cringe-worthy host with Nick Kroll who took any and every chance to make either a uncomfortable or just…