Know the Cast: ‘The Usual Suspects’
‘The Usual Suspects’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Bryan Singer’s 1995 movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Home Alone’
‘Home Alone’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Chris Columbus’ 1990 movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Mission: Impossible’
‘Mission: Impossible’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Brian De Palma’s 1996 movie.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Mission: Impossible’
‘Mission: Impossible’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Brian De Palma’s 1996 movie.
A Beautiful Tragedy: Reimagining the Blacklist
“Even the most cynical satire is half in love with the object of its barbs; there is a part of every constrained creative that loves their shackles and will make great play of rattling them.”
The Unforgiving Concrete: Lodge Kerrigan’s Cinema of Estrangement
“In Lodge Kerrigan’s first three features, he asks audiences to consider those left in the wake of his central characters…”
New Targets: Assassins at the End of History
“The 90s variant of the hitman archetype became entangled in the disorientation of the time, prone to the same neurotic preoccupations as the cultural cadres warring around them…”
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘The Silence of the Lambs’
‘The Silence of the Lambs’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Jonathan Demme’s 1991 movie.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Bad Boys’
‘Bad Boys’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Michael Bay’s 1995 movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Bad Boys’
‘Bad Boys’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Michael Bay’s 1995 movie.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Twister’
‘Twister’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Jan de Bont’s 1996 movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Twister’
‘Twister’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Jan de Bont’s 1996 movie.
Crime Scene #17: ‘Lone Star’ – Porous Borders at the Edge of America
“The genius of Sayles’ ‘Lone Star’ is that the film envelops its difficult, knotty questions about history, identity and geography without any didacticism.”
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Se7en’
‘Seven’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in David Fincher’s 1995 movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Se7en’
‘Seven’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in David Fincher’s 1995 movie.
Constructing a Madman: Lee Harvey Oswald’s Screen Life
“In our attempt to fill in the gaps of the Oswald character, we recast him again and again, hoping that the latest iteration will reveal a previously hidden angle.”
Know the Cast: ‘Friday’
‘Friday’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in F. Gary Gray’s 1995 movie.
Crime Scene #7: ‘Twilight’ and the Hungarian Hills
“In ‘Twilight,’ Fehér suggests, the force of authority truly loses its voice.”
Don’t Expect Roses: Growth, Transformation and Illusion in Tony Blair’s Britain
“The ghosts of the divisive past that New Labour set out to consign to history’s trash heap reared their heads, presaging a politics that would cast off the Blairite technocratic order.”
Forbidden Worlds Film Festival: ‘Cliffhanger,’ Sylvester Stallone and Realism
“‘Cliffhanger’ is emblematic of a specific kind of big-budget Hollywood blockbuster that was very much in vogue at the time: dumb, full of testosterone and British villains.”