Review: Christopher Fox’s ‘Rub’
“A strong feature debut like ‘Rub’ suggests that the writer-director doesn’t need fancy equipment or multi-million dollar budgets to sustain a successful filmmaking career.”
This category is a Vague Visages archive for movie, TV and music content from the 2020s.
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Mission: Vague Visages aims to publish high-quality writing about world cinema and culture. The site maintains a balance of indie and mainstream coverage, allowing for a unique blend of perspectives.
Origins: Inspired by the cinema movement known as La Nouvelle Vague, Q.V. Hough created an image-based blog called “Faces of the French New Wave” in 2014. For a creative twist, the site’s name quickly changed to “Vague Visages” (aka Wave Faces) in honor of French New Wave filmmakers and American indie filmmaker John Cassavetes (director of the 1968 film Faces).
Shift to Film Criticism: Q.V. moved Vague Visages from Blogger to WordPress in late 2014, using the French publication Cahiers du cinéma as a thematic model.
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Q.V. (Quinn) Hough is Vague Visages’ founding editor and a Rotten Tomatoes-certified film critic. After graduating from Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota) in 2004 with degrees in Communication-Mass Media, History and Classical Studies, he lived in Hollywood, California from 2006 to 2012. Q.V. worked closely with ABC On-Air Promotions as the production manager for LUSSIER. He previously co-hosted Concordia On-Air for three semesters before moving to Los Angeles.
In 2014, Q.V. founded Vague Visages. While developing the site, he wrote 600 video scripts and one e-book for WatchMojo (2014-17), along with 2,000 articles for Screen Rant (2018-21). Q.V. has also written for RogerEbert.com, Fandor and Crooked Marquee. He committed to Vague Visages full-time in August 2021.
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“A strong feature debut like ‘Rub’ suggests that the writer-director doesn’t need fancy equipment or multi-million dollar budgets to sustain a successful filmmaking career.”
“At its core, ‘The Bear’ season 2 is about different modes of refurbishment, for which the central effort to revamp the restaurant acts as a framing metaphor.”
‘The Beanie Bubble’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash’s 2023 Apple TV+ movie.
‘Hidden Strike’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Scott Waugh’s 2023 movie.
‘The Beanie Bubble’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash’s 2023 Apple TV+ movie.
‘Hidden Strike’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Scott Waugh’s 2023 movie.
‘Paradise’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in the 2023 Netflix movie.
‘Paradise’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Boris Kunz, Tomas Jonsgården and Indre Juskute’s 2023 Netflix movie.
“‘Make Me Famous’ is a perceptive film about Reagan-era business strategies that elevated one group of creative gamblers and led others to their graves.”
‘Nehemich’ Interview: Dipankar Sarkar discusses the 2023 short film with director Yudhajit Basu.
‘Happiness for Beginners’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Vicky Wight’s 2023 Netflix movie.
‘Happiness for Beginners’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Vicky Wight’s 2023 Netflix movie.
‘Seasons’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Easy Ferrer’s 2023 Netflix movie.
‘Seasons’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Easy Ferrer’s 2023 Netflix movie.
“Ran Li’s quietly devastating feature debut, ‘Till Love Do Us Part,’ channels the charm of Richard Linklater’s ‘Before’ trilogy while carrying the emotional baggage of an introspective international classic like Federico Fellini’s ‘8 1/2.'”
“Not only does ‘Oppenheimer’ prove to be one the best-crafted biopics in recent memory, but it also boldly reaffirms the director’s auteur status.”
‘Special Ops: Lioness’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ series.
‘Special Ops: Lioness’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ series.
‘They Cloned Tyrone’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Juel Taylor’s 2023 Netflix movie.
‘They Cloned Tyrone’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Juel Taylor’s 2023 Netflix movie.