“I kept imagining an alternate, 84-minute version of the movie made by Chazelle in his early 20s for 60,000 dollars, and decided it would almost certainly be more interesting and entertaining than the 2018 number that cost more than 60 million bucks.”
“Blowback occurs when policymakers fail to take into account the far-reaching ramifications of their actions.”
“Step aside, LBJ, your time in the spotlight is done.”
“As an adaptation of a great 20th century novel, ‘It’ completely misses the mark.”
“As the time between 2008, 2013 and 2016 grows comparatively smaller, the film will only loom larger.”
Vague Visages Chat Transcript
“For all its violence and grandiosity, it stands as an impressively filmed indictment against religious persecution.”
“He’s still planting seeds and still stoking fires.”
“Played in 2016, it’s eerily prophetic.”
Mike Postalakis on the 1978 Fiasco ‘The Star Wars Holiday Special’
“Ethereal with an eye roll, Bagg seems to have materialized from a Zach Braff vision board. Her voice is soothing, a tossed-off Julie Andrews.”
“It only took three decades for ‘RoboCop’ to go from a sci-fi thought experiment to prescient documentary. What do the next few hold?”
“The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards have helped shake up the industry with its most explicitly progressive and comedic self-congratulating.”
“Similar to the audience polarization of other onenote comics (like Ricky Gervais), Cross’ locked, angry views overwhelm his substantial wit.”
A Series on Italian Cinema by Q.V. Hough
“A once-pure appreciation of misplaced passion, the hallmark of so-bad-it’s-good entertainment has been capitalistically leveraged.”
“The extraordinary world of April and the Extraordinary World is no simple one, and it’s welcome that its worldview veers away from the simplistic.”
