Review: ‘Surviving the Cartel’ Season 1
“‘Surviving the Cartel’ season 1 looks like a mostly-assembled jigsaw puzzle. Creator Ely Bams has everything in place and yet various pieces clearly don’t connect.”
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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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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“‘Surviving the Cartel’ season 1 looks like a mostly-assembled jigsaw puzzle. Creator Ely Bams has everything in place and yet various pieces clearly don’t connect.”
‘How to Screw It All Up’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Pablo Sanhermelando Blanes’ HBO Max series.
‘How to Screw It All Up’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every performer and character in Pablo Sanhermelando Blanes’ HBO Max series.
‘Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Michael Lewen’s 2022 Netflix movie.
‘Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Michael Lewen’s 2022 Netflix movie.
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‘The Terminal List’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in David DiGilio’s Amazon series.
‘The Terminal List’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in David DiGilio’s Amazon series.
‘The Princess’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Le-Van Kiet’s 2022 Hulu movie.
‘The Princess’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Le-Van Kiet’s 2022 Hulu movie.
‘Blasted’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Martin Sofiedal’s 2022 Netflix movie.
‘Blasted’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Martin Sofiedal’s 2022 Netflix movie.
‘Beauty’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Andrew Dosunmu’s 2022 Netflix movie.
‘Beauty’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Andrew Dosunmu’s 2022 Netflix movie.
‘The Bear’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Christopher Storer’s FX on Hulu series.
“‘You Are Not My Mother’ lives at the fringes of folk horror, but the underlying family melodrama drives a story more interested in generational trauma than a supernatural fairytale.”
‘The Man from Toronto’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Patrick Hughes’ 2022 Netflix movie.
‘The Man from Toronto’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Patrick Hughes’ 2022 Netflix movie.
‘The Old Man’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine’s FX series.