Movie Review: Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk

“It’s a conversation with society, and often, it’s an argument,” declares narrator Iggy Pop in a statement providing context for punk rock in the opening of Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk, and it doesn’t take long…

Movie Review: Amnesia

In the early 1990s, shortly after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, many concerned citizens around the world were forced to face the demons which had plagued their nations for half a century. No one felt the wave of emotions…

Movie Review: Wish Upon

Question: Are you supposed to laugh at a horror movie? Granted, if there’s a funny scene in a horror movie or if the movie is a horror-comedy, it might be fine to laugh. But if the movie is straightforward, stacked…

Take a look behind the scenes of Star Wars: The Last Jedi

So no, we didn’t get that full length trailer we’ve all been itching for since the first sneak peek. And unfortunately, no, tomorrow isn’t December and the release date for Star Wars: The Last Jedi is still impossibly far away…

NYAFF Movie Review: The Taking of Tiger Mountain

Tsui Hark’s The Taking of Tiger Mountain is ostensibly a retelling of an actual conflict during the twentieth century Chinese Civil War where a band of 30 Communist soldiers in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) successfully infiltrated and defeated a…

TYF’s Top Films of 2017 (So far!)

Remember how we spent a good deal of 2016 talking about how goddamn long it felt? Well, 2017 hasn’t fared much better and sometimes it’s a big reality check to realize it’s only JULY. In that time while your blood…

Hot Fuzz: For The Love Of Action

We’re taking a look at what has made each of Edgar Wright’s films great in lead up to the release of Baby Driver.  In the long run, it makes sense that Edgar Wright would do an action film. Considering the…