Movie Review: The Act of Killing

The Act of Killing is a difficult watch. Throughout the entirety of the film as you hear horrible, sadistic words pour out of the mouths of the men, as they reenact heinous and disgusting crimes, as you see them celebrated…

Interview: Johnny Knoxville Talks “Bad Grandpa”

A few weeks ago The Young Folks along with 26 other Universities around the country got the chance to partake in a phone interview round table with Johnny Knoxville in preparation for his newest film, Bad Grandpa, coming out October 25th.…

Allyson’s Movie Review: 12 Years A Slave

Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave without fail is definitively a landmark film. This film paints a portrait of human depravity and the evil that can consume individuals, how that evil manifests itself throughout the years, the overwhelming compassion that…

Evan’s Top 10 Summer Movies You Should Probably See

Summertime is pretty much here, which means that we’ll all be having fun, playing at the beach, roller skating to Daft Punk and all those radical things we love to do when the kids are on summer vacation. But, most…

Evan’s Film Review: Evil Dead

SPOILER: If you’re not a horror movie fan, thats exactly what this is. There is blood, and death, and demons, and it’s nasty. Is your stomach wrenching at the thought of what horrid violence might be in this movie? No?…

Books to Movies: Which of Your Favorite YA Reads Might/Will Hit the Big Screen?

  Hollywood is gobbling up movie rights to almost every best-selling Young Adult novel to hit book stands in the past few years. Can you blame them? Every studio is looking for the new Harry Potter, Twilight and now Hunger…

Catching Fire Update!: Amanda Plummer cast as Wiress

Last week, Lionsgate let it slip that Philip Seymour Hoffman had been cast as Plutarch Heavensbee in the greatly anticipated sequel to this year’s box office hit The Hunger Games. Today, Lionsgate released some more casting news for avid fans of the franchise;…