Review: Michael Casey and Paddy Murphy’s ‘Lulu and the Electric Dreamboat’
“Michael Casey and Paddy Murphy’s ‘Lulu and the Electric Dreamboat’ is a winsome coming-of-age film with surgical wit.”
This category is a Vague Visages archive for movie, TV and music content from the 2020s.
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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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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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“Michael Casey and Paddy Murphy’s ‘Lulu and the Electric Dreamboat’ is a winsome coming-of-age film with surgical wit.”
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‘One of Them Days’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Lawrence Lamont’s 2025 movie.
‘Nonnas’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Stephen Chbosky’s 2025 Netflix movie.
‘Nonnas’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Stephen Chbosky’s 2025 Netflix movie.
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‘Murder at Yellowstone City’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Richard Gray 2022 movie.
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‘The Last Stop in Yuma County’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Francis Galluppi’s 2023 movie.
‘The Last Stop in Yuma County’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Francis Galluppi’s 2023 movie.
‘Humans in the Loop’ Interview: Dipankar Sarkar discusses the 2024 movie with filmmaker Aranya Sahay.
‘Exterritorial’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Christian Zübert’s 2025 Netflix movie.
‘Another Simple Favor’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Paul Feig’s 2025 movie.
‘Black Bag’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Steven Soderbergh’s 2025 movie.
‘Exterritorial’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Christian Zübert’s 2025 Netflix movie.
“Perhaps if ‘Crawdaddy’ played into the idea of an unremarkably ordinary man becoming a sex symbol for comedy, the sillier tone elsewhere wouldn’t feel as disparate from the rest.”
‘Murder at Yellowstone City’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Richard Gray’s 2022 movie.