Review: Sean Byrne’s ‘Dangerous Animals’
“Byrne paces ‘Dangerous Animals’ perfectly, hitting all the scariest beats with the requisite care and attention to detail…”
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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“Byrne paces ‘Dangerous Animals’ perfectly, hitting all the scariest beats with the requisite care and attention to detail…”
‘Sirens’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Molly Smith Metzler’s 2025 Netflix miniseries.
‘The Elysian Field’ Interview: Dipankar Sarkar discusses the 2025 movie with filmmaker Pradip Kurbah.
‘Stick’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Jason Keller’s Apple TV+ series.
‘Final Destination 2′ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in David R. Ellis’ 2003 movie.
‘Sirens’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Molly Smith Metzler’s 2025 Netflix miniseries.
“‘Knock Out Blonde’ isn’t the kind of documentary that wants to paint a complicated picture of its subject — which, paradoxically, would be the kind of boundary-pushing representation we need now.”
‘Stick’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Jason Keller’s Apple TV+ series.
‘Mountainhead’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Jesse Armstrong’s 2025 HBO Max movie.
‘One of Them Days’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Lawrence Lamont’s 2025 movie.
“‘All Happy Families’ is a warm family drama. What the film lacks in originality, it makes up for in sincerity.”
‘Summer of 69’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Jillian Bell’s 2025 Hulu movie.
‘Fountain of Youth’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Guy Ritchie’s 2025 Apple TV+ movie.
‘A Widow’s Game’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Carlos Sedes’ 2025 Netflix movie.
“Perry fully (and successfully) commits to various comedic bits in ‘Pavements’ while documenting Pavement’s 1999 break-up and eventual 2022 reunion.”
“In ‘I Love You Forever,’ David and Kalani have their fingers firmly on the pulse of the current zeitgeist, injecting a much-needed youthful zest into a well-worn genre with an artful eye and incisive wit.”
‘Bet’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Simon Barry, Homura Kawamoto and Tôru Naomura’s Netflix series.
‘Fountain of Youth’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Guy Ritchie’s 2025 Apple TV+ movie.
‘Murderbot’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz’s Apple TV+ series.
“What sets ‘Invader’ apart from more conventional stalker horror films is its feverish aesthetic that owes more to the manic energy of 1970s and 80s exploitation cinema than modern genre trends.”