One of the most distinct styles of art and filmmaking, the Japanese anime genre has stayed in so many people’s memories because of how open it is and how it can be molded into other movie genres. Anim…
Battlebots Chat: The 2018 Tournament, Part 2
For this new season of Battlebots, The Young Folks’ music editor Ryan Gibbs and contributing writer Joey Daniewicz will be giving their impressions of each episode in our recurring feature Battl…
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween Review: Kids will Smile, Parents will Snore
*Spoilers for Goosebumps (2015) and Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween* If you happened to love 2015’s Goosebumps with Jack Black, don’t expect similar results with this weekends Goosebumps 2…
Bad Times at the El Royale Movie Review: Drew Goddard’s Neo-Noir Thriller is a Mostly Good Time
There are myriad things to which one could compare Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale: a LEGO set, for all its pieces that are meant to come together in the end, a process that usually requires…
VIFF 2018: “An Elephant Sitting Still”, “Mangoshake”, “Genesis” & “Wolf Hall”
One inevitably recurring theme in the many films you get see at festivals like VIFF is how the world isn’t going to give you the answers to life’s hard questions. It is often that the filmmakers must …
Supernatural 14×01 Review: “Stranger in a Strange Land” Finds a New Way to Tell the Same Story
Supernatural is no stranger to missing brothers or kidnapped friends. Hell, it’s done angel possession before. At one point, Sam is even kidnapped by an angel possessing him during the mid-seaso…
Ten Things We Can’t Wait to See in the Movie Adaptation of Patrick Ness’s ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’
We’ve partnered with Candlewick to celebrate the reissue of Patrick Ness’s best-selling novel, The Knife of Never Letting Go. This award-winning book is celebrating its 10th anniversary and if you hav…