About Cate Young

Cate Young is a Los Angeles-based film critic, essayist and podcast producer from Trinidad and Tobago. She is the co-creator of Thirty, Flirty + Film, a sometimes biweekly film review newsletter, with writer and editor, Zosha Millman.

Cate is a member of a number of the critical and professional bodies including GALECA, AAFCA, OAFFC, the LA Press Club and the Podcast Academy. She has covered film festivals from Sundance to the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, AFI Festival and the Hollyshorts Film Festival. She is also a Rotten Tomatoes Approved critic.

Her writing has dealt particularly with the intersection of race, gender and sexuality. Cate’s predominant critical focus is on media as anthropology through cultural storytelling in film and television — engaging with the entertainment industry as a function of its political power to shape and order society. She is also the creator of BattyMamzelle; a now-defunct feminist pop culture blog focused on film, television, music and critical commentary on media representation.

Thirty, Flirty + Film is a newsletter written by myself and Zosha Millman. Started in 2020 as a project to occupy our time and use our skills during quarantine, it has become a fun collaboration we look forward to every other week. In six years we’ve been running so far, we’ve covered everything from Hedda to I Care A Lot. If our wildly varied tastes interest you, subscribe here to get two reviews straight to your inbox twice a month.