I told very few of my friends one of my darkest pop culture secrets: I still hadn’t seen the movie Cabaret. However, I discovered a way to more …
Editorials
It’s Time to Retire the Term “Chick Flick”
As women, we have been conditioned to embrace, but also be ashamed of the term “chick flick.” Films that are supposedly made specifically for the fema…
52FilmsbyWomen 2018: The 10 Best Films I’ve Seen This Year [Column]
At the start of 2018, I took the #52FilmsbyWomen pledge, vowing to watch one movie directed by a woman per week throughout 2018 — both female-directed…
15 Years On and the Influence of ’28 Days Later’ Still Shows
For a genre about reanimating the dead, zombies were staying underground for the most part from the late 80’s through the whole 90’s. Day …
Revisiting “The Glory Days”: A Look Back at The Incredibles
For nearly a decade, the film output of Pixar was primarily conceived from the minds of animators already working at the studio like John Lasseter (To…
How Independent Films are Turning the Genre into Reflections of Our Societal and Internal Terrors
In October 2017, GQ published a staggering article covering this new Golden Age of Horror Movies. It’s true, this cultural moment is quite the horror …
I Missed Yoko Taro’s PAX East 2018 Panel Waiting For a Sandwich (A Tale of Convention Food Monopolization)
Now, we in The Young Folks staff had a wonderful time at PAX East Boston this year, and we met tons of amazing people; from media to designers, to cos…