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2025年1月6日 · Vague Visages’ Going Viral review contains minor spoilers. Vincent Vittorio’s 2024 movie features Corey Feldman, Shea Pritchard and Aline O’Neill. Check out the VV home page for more film criticism, movie reviews and film essays. While Going Viral visually nails the 1980s era, the narrative ...

4 天之前 · Josh isn’t an outright villain right from the start in Companion.Much like Quaid’s entitled Scream character, Richie Kirsch, he initially presents as a schlubby, well-meaning Nice Guy™.Hancock wisely takes his time dropping hints that this dude is a bit of an asshole, culminating in another character (played by a scene-stealing Harvey Guillén, of What We Do in the Shadows fame) pointing ...

2023年10月24日 · Vague Visages’ Breathing In review contains minor spoilers.Jaco Bouwer’s 2023 movie features Michele Burgers, Sven Ruygrok and Jamie-Lee Money. Check out the VV home page for more film reviews, along with cast/character summaries, streaming guides and complete soundtrack song listings.. With Breathing In, filmmaker Jaco Bouwer strips away all the earthly visual flair of his previous ...

6 天之前 · Mooney, who made his feature directorial debut with Y2K, seemingly needed more time in the editing room to polish his filmmaking style.As a comedic performer, he excels through subtle and self-deprecating humor that Saturday Night Live fans like myself anticipate when he appears in sketches. In a mainstream feature film, though, some of the ha-ha stoner stuff needs more meat on the bone ...

4 天之前 · Despite Alexandre Desplat’s score tugging on the heartstrings, The Most Precious of Cargoes tries to refrain from overbearing sentimentality where possible. If anything, it’s the antithesis of something like Life Is Beautiful (1997), another story where a parent tries to hide the looming death that came with living in a concentration camp from his young son, coining an elaborate fantasy ...

2022年12月19日 · Vague Visages’ Babylon review contains minor spoilers. Damien Chazelle’s 2022 movie stars Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva. Check out the VV home page for more film reviews, along with cast/character summaries, streaming guides and complete soundtrack song listings.. How many Babylon reviews and essays will at some point use the words orgiastic and overlong to describe Damien ...

2025年1月10日 · Dream Team’s visual style and wink-of-the-eye humor will please stoners and the midnight movie crowd. As a whole, however, the messaging is incredibly sloppy. Furthermore, Horn and Kalman underutilize one of France’s best young actresses, Garrel (Google her family history), who should ideally be front and center from beginning to end.Instead, the filmmakers assemble a series of bizarre ...

2025年1月31日 · Dead Before They Wake differentiates itself from most hard-nosed thrillers through its supporting characters. Alex, who openly acknowledges his poor interpersonal skills, communicates with his deaf father via sign language. During the film’s middle section, the protagonist opens up to his female love interest, Gemma (the wonderful Grace Cordell) — a teacher/exotic dancer who desperately ...

2024年6月4日 · Vague Visages’ Pandemonium review contains minor spoilers.Quarxx’s 2023 movie on Amazon, Apple and Arrow Player features Arben Bajraktaraj, Hugo Dillon and Ophélia Kolb. Check out the VV home page for more film reviews, along with cast/character summaries, streaming guides and complete soundtrack song listings.. Horror fans shouldn’t expect a clean and traditional narrative structure ...