Know the Cast: ‘Outer Banks’
‘Outer Banks’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Josh Pate, Jonas Pate and Shannon Burke Netflix’s series.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘The Suicide Squad’
‘The Suicide Squad’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in the 2021 DCEU movie starring Margot Robbie.
Trailer Detective: ‘Kate’
Kate: Q.V. Hough lists five key observations about the trailer for Cedric Nicolas-Troyan’s 2021 Netflix film starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Know the Cast: ‘The Vault’
‘The Vault’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Jaume Balagueró’s 2021 movie.
Know the Cast: ‘The Last Mercenary’
‘The Last Mercenary’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in David Charhon’s 2022 Netflix movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Blood Red Sky’
‘Blood Red Sky’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Peter Thorwarth’s 2021 Netflix movie
Know the Cast: ‘Massacre Time’
‘Massacre Time’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Lucio Fulci’s 1966 movie.
‘Cotton Comes to Harlem’ – The Neo-Noir That Black America Needed
“At first blush, ‘Cotton Comes to Harlem’ may not seem like a traditional noir production. But over time, the 1970 film has become one of the most vivid examples of the genre being inclusive.”
Know the Cast: ‘Gunpowder Milkshake’
‘Gunpowder Milkshake’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Navot Papushado’s 2021 Netflix movie.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Gunpowder Milkshake’
‘Gunpowder Milkshake’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every feature song in Navot Papushado’s 2021 Netflix movie.
Review: Cate Shortland’s ‘Black Widow’
“Shortland brings her keen feature filmmaking chops to ‘Black Widow’ as a welcome addition to the talented pool of storytellers who can match the Kevin Feige house style without any significant artistic compromise.”
Mannhunting: Exploring Masculinity in the Films of Michael Mann – Part Four
“Masculinity in Mann’s world is its own prison, a conundrum of duality, a question of what someone will stand for and the masks they may wear while striving for an identity.”
Netflix Review: ‘Godzilla Singular Point’ Season 1
“Previous incarnations of Godzilla worked best by implanting ideas that were tangible. However, in the world of ‘Godzilla Singular Point,’ the ideas prove to be non-existent, as do the inhabitants.”
Smoke ‘Em: ‘The Fast and the Furious’ at 20
Joey Keogh on the 20th Anniversary of ‘The Fast and the Furious’
The Art of the Score: David Mamet’s ‘Heist’
The Art of the Score #1: Blake Howard on David Mamet’s ‘Heist’
Netflix Review: Zack Snyder’s ‘Army of the Dead’
“‘Army of the Dead’ is an algorithmic cleansing exhale in the wake of a whirlwind period in Snyder’s career. As a zombie movie, it’s a shallow, scattershot effort with interesting mythology ideas that don’t really go anywhere…”
Amazon Prime Review: ‘Invincible’ Season 1
“Comic book adaptations are by no means an easy task, but Robert Kirkman and his co-producers achieve a soaring success with the Amazon Prime series ‘Invincible.'”
Mannhunting: Exploring Masculinity in the Films of Michael Mann – Part Two
Mannhunting #2 by Bill Bria: “In Mann’s duality of man, cop and robber are, in Stevenson’s words, ‘radically both’ one and the same.”
Mannhunting: Exploring Masculinity in the Films of Michael Mann – Part One
Mannhunting #1 by Bill Bria: “The protagonists and antagonists in Mann’s films tend to be mirror images of each other, all of them caught within masculinity’s shackles.”
Netflix Review: ‘Dota: Dragon’s Blood’ Season 1
“‘All these books, all this magic, yeah, they have potential. But what exactly is ‘DOTA: Dragon’s Blood’ trying to say?”