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.”
Review: Bertrand Bonello’s ‘Coma’
“‘Coma’ conjures up the spirit of 2020 like no other movie thus far. Through its unwieldy structure and genre delineation, Bonello’s film often feels every bit as disorienting as it was to scroll through social media timelines during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
1980s TV Revisited: ‘Moonlighting’ Never Went Downhill Because It Never Set Foot on Earth
“In a lot of ways, ‘Moonlighting’ now seems like a 1990s premium cable show that happened to run on a traditional broadcast network. It carried itself as if it was smarter and wilder and more interesting than anything else on television.”
Soundtracks of Television: ‘The Signal’
‘The Signal’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Nadine Gottmann’s 2024 Netflix miniseries.
Know the Cast: ‘The Signal’
‘The Signal’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Nadine Gottmann’s Netflix series.
Crime Scene #14: ‘Five Deadly Venoms’ and Kung Fu Criminality
“The spatial detail in ‘Five Deadly Venoms,’ aided by Chang’s sharp sense of timing, helped the film become a surprisingly labyrinthine vision of camaraderie in the face of corruption and power.”
Soundtracks of Television: ‘Sugar’
‘Sugar’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Mark Protosevich’s Apple TV+ series.
Know the Cast: ‘Sugar’
‘Sugar’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Mark Protosevich’s Apple TV+ series.
Soundtracks of Television: ‘Bandidos’
‘Bandidos’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Pablo Tébar’s Netflix series.
An Interview with ‘Riptide’ Filmmaker Afrad Vk
‘Riptide’ Interview: Dipankar Sarkar discusses the 2024 movie with filmmaker Afrad Vk.
Crime Scene #13: ‘Memories of Murder’ and Rainy Remembrances
“It’s a sense of Korean specificity that defines ‘Memories of Murder,’ which is still the best of Bong’s films.”
Review: Abhilash Shetty’s ‘Koli Taal’
“It’s amazing what an emerging writer-director can accomplish by staying true to the basic elements of filmmaking and then building upon the foundation by applying a creative vision to a relatively simple yet regionally specific story.”