Review: Adam Ethan Crow’s ‘Lair’
“‘Lair’ succeeds with its female-led possession story but fails with the flat adjacent flat subplot.”
Review: David Verbeek’s ‘Dead & Beautiful’
“With ‘Dead & Beautiful,’ Verbeek foreshadows the inevitable clash between the progressive leaders of tomorrow and conservative vampires who seek blood. As new generations of wealth emerge, will the enlightened prioritize reality over their personas?”
Know the Cast: ‘When a Stranger Calls’
‘When a Stranger Calls’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Simon West’s 2006 movie.
Reality Is a Deadly Place: LSD Cinema’s Short and Strange Trip
“Drug culture and social upheaval became inextricable on the screen in the 60s; it was a belated recognition on the part of the industry’s tastemakers that American cinema’s scrupulously maintained state of grace was no longer sustainable…”
Know the Cast: ‘Spiral’
‘Spiral’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Darren Lynn Bousman’s 2021 Saw franchise movie.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Spiral’
‘Spiral’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Darren Lynn Bousman’s 2021 Saw franchise movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Gaia’
‘Gaia’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Jaco Bouwer’s 2021 horror movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Army of the Dead’
‘Army of the Dead’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and characer in Zack Snyder’s 2021 Netflix movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Last Night in Soho’
‘Last Night in Soho’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Edgar Wright’s 2021 movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin’
‘Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in William Eubank’s 2021 franchise movie.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin’
‘Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in William Eubank’s 2021 franchise movie.
Review: Edgar Wright’s ‘Last Night in Soho’
“The multifaceted, nuanced quality of music is vital to ‘Last Night in Soho,’ in which people aren’t so easily defined.”
Know the Cast: ‘Hypnotic’
‘Hypnotic’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote’s 2021 Netflix movie.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Hypnotic’
‘Hypnotic’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote’s 2021 Netflix movie.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Titane’
‘Titane’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Julia Ducournau’s 2021 movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Titane’
‘Titane’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Julia Ducournau’s 2021 film.
Julia Ducournau’s ‘Titane’: Influence, (Sur)Realism and the Avant-Garde
“Ducournau’s approach to cinematic lineage and influence in ‘Titane’ is a complicated one, as she develops her singular filmmaking style into something even more evasive and intricate than in ‘Raw.'”
Review: David Gordon Green’s ‘Halloween Kills’
“‘Halloween Kills’ may not be to everybody’s tastes, but there’s a reason for that ‘kills’ in the title, beyond attention-grabbing marketing. The word refers not just to Michael himself but the rot at the core of Haddonfield…”
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘The Trip’
‘The Trip’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Tommy Wirkola’s 2021 Netflix movie.
Know the Cast: ‘The Trip’
‘The Trip’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Tommy Wirkola’s Netflix movie.