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1 day ago · 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 ...

1 day ago · 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 ...

3 days ago · 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 ...

Jan 6, 2025 · 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 ...

Jan 15, 2025 · The Damned is a cerebral film that should be analyzed in film theory courses. By building to a big twist, Palsson leaves the audience with plenty to discuss and/or think about. And that’s a beautiful thing — the ability to at once entertain and provoke by tweaking formulaic concepts and raising questions about the grey areas associated with moral decay in communities.

Jan 10, 2025 · 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 ...

Jul 4, 2024 · Vague Visages’ The Devil’s Bath review contains minor spoilers.Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s 2024 Shudder movie features Anja Plaschg, Maria Hofstätter and David Scheid. Check out the VV home page for more film reviews, along with cast/character summaries, streaming guides and complete soundtrack song listings.. Back in the 80s, there was an influx of schlocky slashers with ...

Jun 4, 2024 · 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 ...

Jan 20, 2025 · Endless Summer Syndrome’s lack of fluid motion visuals works to its advantage. Cinematographer Cédric Larvoire captures small interior and exterior details, via the film’s subtle mise-en-scène, that establish the worldviews of the main players.For Delphine, it’s the material things that keep her happy, while Antoine appears to value his influence on others.