‘Nope’: Jordan Peele Goes West in Imaginative Genre Mash-Up
“One of the most refreshing dimensions of ‘Nope’ resides in Peele’s willingness to trust viewers to follow him into unexpected territory.”
Know the Cast & Characters: ‘Recurrence’
‘Recurrence’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Alejandro Montiel’s 2022 Netflix movie.
Know the Cast & Characters: ‘Surface’
‘Surface’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Veronica West’s 2022 Apple TV+ miniseries.
Soundtracks of Television: ‘Surface’
‘Surface’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Veronica West’s 2022 Apple TV+ miniseries.
Know the Cast: ‘Umma’
‘Umma’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Iris K. Shim’s 2022 movie.
Review: Adam Christian Clark’s ‘Diary of a Spy’
“‘Diary of a Spy’ mostly keeps viewers in the dark; it’s unclear what makes the main characters tick. Anna and Camden are Dostoevskian figures in spirit, from a different tale, who seem lost in time.”
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Fear Street: Part Two – 1978’
‘Fear Street: Part Two – 1978’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Leigh Janiak’s 2021 Netflix movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Fear Street: Part Two – 1978’
‘Fear Street: Part Two – 1978’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Leigh Janiak’s 2021 Netflix movie.
Visions of the Future from 1995: The World Is Screwed
“‘Waterworld,’ ’12 Monkeys’ and ‘Tank Girl’ posit that when a civilization collapses, many of its customs will be upheld through authoritarian means…”
Soundtracks of Television: ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’
‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in David E. Kelley’s Netflix series.
Know the Cast: ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’
‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in David E. Kelley’s Netflix series.
The Only Thing Real: Meaning and Maturity in Post-9/11 Cinema
“9/11 was a psychic wound that fostered a new relation to the world, and those who grew up in its aftermath struggled to digest its lessons; some fell back onto intransigence, while others internalized the damage.”
Soundtracks of Television: ‘First Kill’
‘First Kill’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Victoria Schwab’s Netflix series.
Know the Cast: ‘First Kill’
‘First Kill’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Victoria Schwab’s Netflix series.
Death Is Not the End: Self-Destruction in the Films of David Cronenberg
“Perhaps David Cronenberg is owed another kind of reputation: that of a humanist filmmaker who observes and questions, who understands our pain and sorrow as well as our ambitions both intellectual and libidinous.”
Soundtracks of Television: ‘Now & Then’
‘Now & Then’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Ramón Campos, Gema R. Neira and Teresa Fernández-Valdés’ Apple TV+ series.
Know the Cast: ‘Now & Then’
‘Now & Then’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every performer and character in Ramón Campos, Gema R. Neira and Teresa Fernández-Valdés’ Apple TV+ series.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘The Twin’
‘The Twin’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Taneli Mustonen’s 2022 Shudder movie.
Mariama Diallo’s ‘Master’ Calls Out the Horrors of Racism
“‘Master’ certainly won’t be collecting an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, let alone a nomination. Even so, the film is worth a look.”
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Old’
‘Old’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2021 movie.