Bryan Young

3 weeks ago | scriptmag.com | Bryan Young

Nick Castle has been working in Hollywood across five decades. Most would know him most recognizably as the man behind the mask of Michael Myers in the original 1978 Halloween from the legendary John Carpenter. Despite this landmark performance in the world of horror, and endless questions at conventions and appearances about Michael Myers, he thinks of himself first and foremost as a writer and director.

1 month ago | cityweekly.net | Bryan Young

I'll be honest, after the criminal activity perpetrated during his first term, I felt confident that a second Donald Trump presidency was an impossibility. How hopeful and naive I was. Now that we're deep into the second "first hundred days," Trump has taken a torch to normality. It's all angering. But the parts affecting my family most acutely are his bigoted executive orders—specifically the ones targeting trans kids.

1 month ago | cityweekly.net | Bryan Young

A quote from Star Wars: Andor has been ringing through my skull since the second Trump regime began its blitzkrieg against everything from trans folks and education to workplace safety standards and children's cancer research. Young revolutionary Karis Nemik tells Cassian Andor, "The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it, and that is the real trick of the Imperial Thought Machine.

2 months ago | scriptmag.com | Bryan Young

There will be spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World. Captain America: Brave New World is the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the fourth film in the Captain America franchise, though it’s only the first to star Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson in the lead role of Captain America. It took close to a dozen films and a television show to prep Sam for taking on the role and really convincing him he was able to do it.

2 months ago | cityweekly.net | Bryan Young

With the current hellscape our country is descending into, we're often told to focus on our local politics and community. Sometimes, it's too overwhelming to look at the nation and think there's anything meaningful we can do. Sometimes, the state level feels impossible, too. Between the current regimes in the White House and Utah Legislature, sanity, good governance and kindness are on vacation for the foreseeable future. That leaves us with hyperlocal government. We focus on our city.