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Film, TV & Music • Forming the Future • Est. 2014

Review: John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’

By Kevin Fox, Jr. on March 22, 2023

Review: Kevin Abrams’ ‘I Got a Monster’

By Joey Keogh on March 21, 2023

Collecting Movies with Mike Flanagan

By Greg Carlson on March 20, 2023

Review: Chad Stahelski’s ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’

By Kevin Fox, Jr. on March 15, 2023

Review: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s ‘Scream VI’

By Joey Keogh on March 15, 2023

Collecting Movies with ‘JessZilla’ Filmmaker Emily Sheskin

By Greg Carlson on March 13, 2023

Vague Visages Short Stories: Find Your Perfection by D.M. Palmer

By D.M. Palmer on June 21, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

Vague Visages Short Stories #10: Find Your Perfection by D.M. Palmer (Sheffield, UK)

See and Be Seen: Aaron Schimberg’s ‘Chained for Life’

By Tanner Tafelski on June 20, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

“In a borough of New York teeming with independent and micro-budget filmmakers, Aaron Schimberg is one of the handful to keep an eye out for with every new work that he makes.”

Lost Amidst the Architecture: Aaron Katz’s ‘Gemini’

By D.M. Palmer on June 18, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

“In straining to emulate something in the order of a traditional thriller, Katz and his team of long-time collaborators find themselves sliding perilously towards the formulaic.”

Telling Stories in Order to Survive: ‘Argo’

By Ross McIndoe on June 14, 2018 • ( 3 Comments )

“‘Argo’ allows you to enjoy the CIA’s outlandish caper, but it also confronts you with the ambivalence of the larger picture.”

Jim McKay’s ‘En el Séptimo Día’: An Immigrant Fairy Tale

By Tanner Tafelski on June 12, 2018 • ( 3 Comments )

“With flexible, transparent cinematography by Charles Libin, the film captures, beat by beat, moment by moment, José’s actions and movements as he bikes, makes deliveries and encounters his boss, friends and customers.”

Permanent Shadows: Rosalind Byrne in Buster Keaton’s ‘Seven Chances’

By Ben Woodiwiss on June 11, 2018

“Put simply, Rosalind Byrne changed how I think about cinema. Yes, film is largely about fiction, but in the recording of these fictions, there is an accidental reveal that says so much about who we are and what we think.”

Hell in the Mirror of Heaven: An Interview with Cold Cave’s Wesley Eisold

By Leslie Hatton on June 8, 2018

Leslie Hatton Interviews Cold Cave’s Wesley Eisold

Vague Visages Writers’ Room: Weekend Vibes 6.8.18

By Vague Visages on June 8, 2018

Weekend Vibes is a Friday column about streaming recommendations, new release hype and entertainment events. 

Ari Aster Essay - Hereditary

Ari Aster’s ‘Hereditary’: Hollow Horror

By Tanner Tafelski on June 7, 2018 • ( 3 Comments )

“What’s truly terrifying about ‘Hereditary’ is how empty it really is.”

Love as a Force in Francis Lee’s ‘God’s Own Country’

By Walter Neto on June 5, 2018

“What a beautiful gem of a film, one that’s carved so effectively by Francis Lee in his debut feature.”

Bela and Boris as Bela and Boris: Postmodern Icons in Early Horror

By Sam Moore on June 4, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

“By playing characters that feel like versions of themselves, both Bela and Boris try to manipulate the iconography that surrounds them, in a postmodern exploration of what it means to be a star, and wonder if it’s possible to escape from their own shadows.”

Vague Visages Writers’ Room: Weekend Vibes 6.1.18

By Vague Visages on June 1, 2018

Weekend Vibes is a Friday column about streaming recommendations, new release hype and entertainment events. 

Album Review: The Quick ‘Mondo Deco’ Expanded Edition

By Leslie Hatton on June 1, 2018

“It’s hard not to listen to The Quick’s output and wonder, wistfully, what could have been.”

Real Blood, Fake News: Dan Gilroy’s ‘Nightcrawler’

By Ross McIndoe on May 31, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )

“Like a modern-day Machiavelli, his amoral world-view doesn’t see the ethical shades of his actions, only the gains and losses they might occur.”

Frank Henenlotter Movie Essay - 1988 Film Brain Damage

The Boundary-Pushing Comedy in Frank Henenlotter’s Films

By Bill Bria on May 29, 2018

“Frank Henenlotter and his films have the demeanor of a naughty uncle making wild, dirty jokes while telling a campfire ghost story. He wants you to take the material seriously, but he’s mostly concerned with you having a great time.”

Scrappily-Assembled Star Wars: ‘Solo’ Is Safe Galactic Fun

By Caroline Cao on May 28, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

“The film is not without heart, though its heart exists in scattered fragments without assimilating into a cohesive whole.”

The Transcendent Banality of ‘Joe Pera Talks with You’

By D.M. Palmer on May 25, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )

“In its absence of cynicism and surface mundanity, ‘Joe Pera Talks with You’ presents a conceit that feels genuinely daring in the context of a comic universe which prides itself on provocative fare from the likes of Tim and Eric, Dave Willis and Eric Andre.”

Vague Visages Writers’ Room: Favorite Bob Dylan Songs

By Vague Visages on May 24, 2018

In celebration of Bob Dylan’s May 24 birthday, Vague Visages writers list their favorite tracks.

Vague Visages Is FilmStruck: Alexander Mackendrick’s ‘Sweet Smell of Success’

By Jeremy Carr on May 24, 2018

“‘Sweet Smell of Success’ seems to exist somewhere beyond auteurist canonization or even the traditional Hollywood studio stock.”

Cannes Film Festival Review: Matteo Garrone’s ‘Dogman’

By Manuela Lazic on May 23, 2018

“Garrone is more sorry for Marcello’s corruption than he is frustrated by his naivety.”

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