Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Bring Her Back’
‘Bring Her Back’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou’s 2025 movie.
LFF 2025 Review: Rian Johnson’s ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’
“‘Wake Up Dead Man’ transforms into something more impactful by sincerely and non-judgmentally attempting to grapple with faith from an atheist’s perspective.”
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’
‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s 2025 movie.
Building the New Queer Canon #7: Carmen Emmi’s ‘Plainclothes’
“‘Plainclothes’ isn’t necessarily a kinky film — it just does better than most tales of life in the closet to explain why this can be more alluring than coming out and finding somewhere to make these connections in the open.”
Soundtracks of Television: ‘Chad Powers’
‘Chad Powers’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Glen Powell and Michael Waldron’s Hulu series.
Soundtracks of Television: ‘The Lowdown’
‘The Lowdown’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Sterlin Harjo’s FX series.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Freaky Tales’
‘Freaky Tales’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s 2024 movie.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Swiped’
‘Swiped’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Rachel Lee Goldenberg’s 2025 Hulu movie.
TV Review: ‘Alien: Earth’ (Season 1, Episode 8)
“The ‘Alien: Earth’ season 1 finale, ‘The Real Monsters,’ is a violent disruption in the franchise canon.”
Review: Bill Fishman’s ‘Waltzing with Brando’
“‘Waltzing with Brando’ suffers from a sluggish rhythm and lack of narrative drive because it focuses on the wrong character and the wrong aspect of the subject’s life.”
Review: Cosima Spender’s ‘Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe’
“As politics continue to divide people via blinding shades of blue and red, Andrea Bocelli transcends above the madness by communicating what’s in his heart.”
Soundtracks of Television: ‘Black Rabbit’
‘Black Rabbit’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Zach Baylin and Kate Susman’s 2025 Netflix miniseries.
Busan International Film Festival Review: Anoop Lokkur’s ‘Don’t Tell Mother’
“‘Don’t Tell Mother’ is an assured debut, less concerned with plot points than with the tremors of lived moments rippling through its gently stirring narrative.”
Know the Cast: ‘Swiped’
‘Swiped’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Rachel Lee Goldenberg’s 2025 Hulu movie.
Review: Sara Zandieh’s ‘Doin’ It’
“‘Doin’ It’ is caught in the bind of being too obnoxious for adults and too unrelatable for younger viewers.”
TV Review: ‘Alien: Earth’ (Season 1, Episodes 6-7)
“Under Hawley’s watchful eye, the episodic progression from “The Fly” to “Emergence” is the most seamless transition of ‘Alien: Earth’ season 1.”
Know the Cast: ‘Black Rabbit’
‘Black Rabbit’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Zach Baylin and Kate Susman’s 2025 Netflix miniseries.
Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’
“In ‘One Battle After Another,’ the political is inextricable from the personal, in a way that transcends a mere commentary on Trump’s America.”
Review: Justin Tipping’s ‘HIM’
“Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of ‘HIM’ is that Tipping is clearly a talented visual stylist, but his keen eye never quite helps the screenplay transcend various cliches.”
Review: Jimmy Warden’s ‘Borderline’
“Just like a Hollywood actor or actress who doesn’t quite know when to stop performing amongst family members and friends, ‘Borderline’ is frequently annoying yet always entertaining and unpredictable.”