Much like the bombastic, free-for-all fight culture at its center, Donnybrook doesn’t let up. Director Tim Sutton’s (Memphis, Pavillion) monumental downer knocks its viewers onto the ground…… Read more “New from Brian Thompson on The Young Folks: Donnybrook Movie Review: A relentlessly punishing character drama”

Don’t let Braid’s glossy coating and vibrant color scheme fool you; it is most assuredly out for blood. From its off-kilter camera positioning to its rapid narrative…… Read more “New from Brian Thompson on The Young Folks: Braid Movie Review: A delightfully strange and nauseating experience”

The world will never run out of movies about creepy kids. For some reason or another, we are obsessed with watching parents being tormented by their own…… Read more “New from Brian Thompson on The Young Folks: The Prodigy Movie Review: A doomed to be forgotten take on familiar horror trope”

From the seminal (The Italian Job) to the near unwatchable (Going in Style), Michael Caine is no stranger to heist movies. For that matter, neither are Jim…… Read more “New from Brian Thompson on The Young Folks: King of Thieves Movie Review: A middle-of-the-road heist flick”

Inspired by the harrowing true events dramatized in Ruta Sepetys’s best-selling 2011 novel set in the midst of Stalin’s genocide of the Baltic people, Ashes in the…… Read more “New from Brian Thompson on The Young Folks: Ashes in the Snow Movie Review: Even Bel Powley doesn’t shine bright enough to save this melodrama”

In recent years, there’s been an explosion of Westerns within the world of pop culture, with films and television using the unforgiving American frontier setting for tales…… Read more “New from Brian Thompson on The Young Folks: Buffalo Boys Movie Review: An electrifying but familiar take on the Western”

Using Scottish folklore as a speculative framing device for historical fanfiction, The Vanishing (formerly Keepers) tells the viewer right at the top that this is extremely loosely…… Read more “New from Brian Thompson on The Young Folks: The Vanishing Movie Review: Director Kristoffer Nyholm creates a surprisingly eerie mystery”