Crime Scene #19: ‘Only the River Flows’ – A Detective Goes Around the Bend
‘Like many great crime films, ‘Only the River Flows’ makes full use of its setting, delivering a grimy and ugly story that suits its grimy and ugly central location.”
Feeling Like a Winner: Elliott Gould’s Hollywood Hot Streak
“Gould’s persona upended traditional notions of cinematic masculinity in its appeal to a generational fatigue and ambivalence; his sexual magnetism eschewed the amatory codes of the traditional leading man.”
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘The Instigators’
‘The Instigators’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Doug Liman’s 2024 Apple TV+ movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Trap’
‘Trap’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2024 movie.
Know the Cast: ‘The Instigators’
‘The Instigators’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Doug Liman’s 2024 Apple TV+ movie.
Review: Ran Huang’s ‘What Remains’
“‘What Remains’ is a low-key stylish film about human potential and the elevation of consciousness, though Huang keeps the audience trapped in a dark and uncomfortable place with his cryptic storytelling.”
Soundtracks of Television: ‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’
‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Poppy Cogan’s Netflix series.
Know the Cast: ‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’
‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Poppy Cogan’s Netflix series.
Know the Cast: ‘Borderless Fog’
‘Borderless Fog’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Edwin’s 2024 Netflix movie.
Soundtracks of Television: ‘Sunny’
‘Sunny’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Katie Robbins’ Apple TV+ series.
Review: Chip Joslin’s ‘Insane Like Me?’
“‘Insane Like Me?,’ a vampire thriller with little visual style, relies on decent lead performances to make up for a clunky screenplay.”
Crime Scene #17: ‘Lone Star’ – Porous Borders at the Edge of America
“The genius of Sayles’ ‘Lone Star’ is that the film envelops its difficult, knotty questions about history, identity and geography without any didacticism.”
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Inheritance’
‘Inheritance’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Sylwester Jakimow’s 2024 Netflix movie.
Soundtracks of Television: ‘Presumed Innocent’
‘Presumed Innocent’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in David E. Kelley’s 2024 Apple TV+ miniseries.
Know the Cast: ‘Presumed Innocent’
‘Presumed Innocent’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every Actor and character in David E. Kelley’s 2024 Apple TV+ Series
Know the Cast: ‘Colors of Evil: Red’
‘Colors of Evil: Red’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Adrian Panek’s 2024 Netflix movie.
‘Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever’ Review: Borrowed Nostalgia for the Unremembered 90s
“‘Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever’ is formulaic to a fault… however, keep an eye on Fanny Bornedal. It won’t be long until she headlines (or co-headlines) a high-profile TV series or film on a major streaming service.”
Know the Cast: ‘Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever’
‘Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Ole Bornedal’s 2023 movie on Shudder.
Know the Cast: ‘The Strangers’
‘The Strangers’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Bryan Bertino’s 2008 movie.
Small Screen Sanctuary: The Rise of Auteur TV
“It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when television’s so-called Second Golden Age began; however, by the 2010s, it was understood that Prestige TV had begun to fill the gap left by the demise of cinema’s mid-budget tier.”