Life Itself Movie Review: An Emotionally Manipulative Fail

Dan Fogelman has become a household name. The creator of This is Us has a generally good track record for putting out good stuff (Tangled and the short-lived Galavant, RIP, being examples). But hey, not everything is going to be…

This Is Us Creator Wants Us To Cry Even More In Amazon Film Life Itself

If the creators of This Is Us seem to live for making us cry, we love them for it. Why? Because the tears are always well-earned rather than cheap. Now they’re aiming to do it again, this time with a…

Best Films of 2014 (So Far)

By July, we are more than half way done with the year and have gone through almost 7 months of movies, good and bad. While there are many left to go, some of the writers here at The Young Folks…

Jon’s Movie Review: A legend lives on through “Life Itself”

I can only write about what I know and what I’ve experienced. Anything else would come off as false and disingenuous, but worst of all readers tend to pick up on that easily. This was never a problem for the great…