Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Woman of the Hour’
‘Woman of the Hour’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Anna Kendrick’s 2024 Netflix movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Woman of the Hour’
‘Woman of the Hour’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Anna Kendrick’s 2024 Netflix movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Killer Heat’
‘Killer Heat’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Philippe Lacôte’s 2024 Amazon movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Friday the 13th’
‘Friday the 13th’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Sean S. Cunningham’s 1980 movie.
Review: Pascal Plante’s ‘Red Rooms’
“Perhaps Plante wasn’t sure how to end ‘Red Rooms’ without veering into sensationalism, which is commendable, but it doesn’t solve the problem of crafting an intriguing reason for why Kelly-Anne is so driven.”
Crime Scene #19: ‘Only the River Flows’ – A Detective Goes Around the Bend
‘Like many great crime films, ‘Only the River Flows’ makes full use of its setting, delivering a grimy and ugly story that suits its grimy and ugly central location.”
Feeling Like a Winner: Elliott Gould’s Hollywood Hot Streak
“Gould’s persona upended traditional notions of cinematic masculinity in its appeal to a generational fatigue and ambivalence; his sexual magnetism eschewed the amatory codes of the traditional leading man.”
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘The Instigators’
‘The Instigators’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Doug Liman’s 2024 Apple TV+ movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Trap’
‘Trap’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2024 movie.
Know the Cast: ‘The Instigators’
‘The Instigators’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Doug Liman’s 2024 Apple TV+ movie.
Review: Ran Huang’s ‘What Remains’
“‘What Remains’ is a low-key stylish film about human potential and the elevation of consciousness, though Huang keeps the audience trapped in a dark and uncomfortable place with his cryptic storytelling.”
Review: Chip Joslin’s ‘Insane Like Me?’
“‘Insane Like Me?,’ a vampire thriller with little visual style, relies on decent lead performances to make up for a clunky screenplay.”
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.
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.
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.”
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.”