Know the Cast & Characters: ‘The Nice Guys’
‘The Nice Guys’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Shane Black’s 2016 movie.
Collecting Movies with Raymond Rea
Raymond Rea Interview: Greg Carlson and the filmmaker/educator discuss movie collecting.
Visions of the Future from 1995: Touching with Synthetic Hands
Visions of the Future from 1995: Touching with Synthetic Hands by D.M. Palmer: “These films posited that to dream in public, to build new worlds on this freshly privatized terrain, was to risk new and previously inconceivable forms of personal ruin.”
Pre-Code Prime Cuts: Women-Led Films at Cinema Rediscovered
Cinema Rediscovered Essay by Fedor Tot | Women-Led Films of the 1930s | Jewel Robbery (1932) | Red-Headed Woman (1932) | Baby Face (1933)
Know the Cast & Characters: ‘Recurrence’
‘Recurrence’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Alejandro Montiel’s 2022 Netflix movie.
Visions of the Future from 1995: I Am the Law
“The capacity to dehumanize has always been present in cinema; to witness the vanquishing of enemies on the screen has served a cathartic function for every society in which cinema has taken hold.”
Soundtracks of Television: ‘D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!’
‘D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Marina Zenovich’s 2022 Netflix docuseries.
Vagabond Noirs and Tramp Westerns: The Films of Hugo Fregonese at Il Cinema Ritrovato
“Hugo Fregonese is a director ripe for rediscovery.”
Soundtracks of Television: ‘The Longest Night’
‘The Longest Night’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in VÃctor Sierra and Xosé Morais’ Netflix series.
Know the Cast: ‘The Longest Night’
‘The Longest Night’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Victor Sierra and Xosé Morais’ Netflix series.
Soundtracks of Television: ‘Black Bird’
‘Black Bird’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Dennis Lehane’s 2022 Apple TV+ miniseries.
Know the Cast: ‘Black Bird’
‘Black Bird’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Dennis Lehane’s 2022 Apple TV+ miniseries.
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.”
Il Cinema Ritrovato: ‘Tony Arzenta’ and Recanonizing Italian Genre Cinema
“Do some films get ignored because they are unavailable or do they get ignored because they aren’t that good to begin with? This is precisely where I stand with ‘Tony Arzenta.'”
‘Better Call Saul’ and Mechanisms of Obsessional Neurosis
“‘Better Call Saul’ is ultimately an interesting case study of adjacency that points to a more sustainable prequel model that television in general might wish to use in future.”
Soundtracks of Television: ‘The Old Man’
‘The Old Man’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine’s FX series.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Centauro’
‘Centauro’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Daniel Calparsoro’s 2022 Netflix movie.
Femme Fatales in ‘Batman Returns’ and ‘Batman & Robin’
“With ‘Batman Returns’ and ‘Batman & Robin,’ Burton and Schumacher apply their collaborative and authorial sensibilities to iconic female villains.”
Soundtracks of Television: ‘You Don’t Know Me’
‘You Don’t Know Me’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Sarmad Masud’s 2022 Netflix miniseries.
Know the Cast: ‘You Don’t Know Me’
‘You Don’t Know Me’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Sarmad Masud’s 2022 Netflix miniseries.