Zach Vasquez, Author at CrookedMarquee

Zach Vasquez

Zach Vasquez lives and writes in Los Angeles. His critical work focuses on film and literature. He writes fiction as well.

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Overlooked '99: <i>Ravenous</i> — Zach Vasquez

Overlooked '99: Ravenous

Mar 14th, 2019

1999 is considered one of the strongest years of cinema in living memory. There will no doubt be countless articles in 2019 marking the 20th...

Overlooked '99: <i>8mm</i> — Zach Vasquez

Overlooked '99: 8mm

Feb 21st, 2019

1999 is considered one of the strongest years of cinema in living memory. There will no doubt be countless articles in 2019 marking the 20th...

Overlooked '99: <i>The Woman Chaser</i> — Zach Vasquez

Overlooked '99: The Woman Chaser

Jan 8th, 2019

1999 is considered one of the strongest years of cinema in living memory. There will no doubt be countless articles in 2019 marking the 20th...

Zach Vasquez Says Don't Forget: <i>Summer of '84</i> — Zach Vasquez

Zach Vasquez Says Don't Forget: Summer of '84

Dec 26th, 2018

Probably because I was one myself once, I have little tolerance for movies that center on chest-thumping, self-pitying suburban teen boys. Meanwhile,...

Zach Vasquez Says Don't Forget: <i>The Commuter</i> — Zach Vasquez

Zach Vasquez Says Don't Forget: The Commuter

Dec 26th, 2018

The Commuter, Jaume Collet-Serra’s fourth collaboration with Liam Neeson, is a two-fisted Hitchcock riff with enough personality, humor, and...

Surveying the Videodrome: A David Cronenberg Retrospective

Dec 12th, 2018

It’s fitting that the most iconic image from the films of David Cronenberg is the exploding head from Scanners (1981). Cronenberg’s stories...

Internal Divisions: West Berlin in <i>Possession</i> and <i>Suspiria</i> — Zach Vasquez

Internal Divisions: West Berlin in Possession and Suspiria

Nov 13th, 2018

Much has been said about the relationship between Luca Guadagnino’s new remake of Suspiria and Dario Argento’s 1977 original. Guadagnino has...

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Report from Beyond Fest 2018

Oct 11th, 2018

Los Angeles’s biggest genre festival, Beyond Fest, just wrapped its sixth and most ambitious program. Fifty films played at Hollywood’s historic...

Spike and Quentin Feud, But Their Movies Overlap

Aug 23rd, 2018

Sorry to Bother You writer-director Boots Riley recently took to social media to criticize Spike Lee’s new movie BlacKkKlansman — based on the...

The Last Controversy of Christ

Aug 10th, 2018

Thirty years ago this month, the world saw the release of one of the most divisive movies ever made: Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of...

Here I Come to Save the Day: The Great White Avenger in Cinema

Jul 17th, 2018

From The Searchers to You Were Never Really Here, the "captivity narrative" is one of America's strongest tropes When Lynne Ramsay’s You Were...

The Barely Fictionalized Movie Versions of Philip Roth

May 30th, 2018

This month saw the passing of Philip Roth, as important — and no less controversial — a figure to the field of literature as Ty Cobb was to...

<i>Mary Shelley</i> and Other Speculative Literary Biopics — Zach Vasquez

Mary Shelley and Other Speculative Literary Biopics

May 23rd, 2018

The English Romantic writer Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley lived about as cinematic a life as one could, filled with historic achievement, tortuous...

<i>Redbelt</i>: David Mamet’s Last Stand — Zach Vasquez

Redbelt: David Mamet’s Last Stand

May 9th, 2018

This month marks the 10th anniversary of David Mamet’s mixed-martial-arts thriller Redbelt. In the intervening years, Mamet — the preeminent...

<i>The Death of Stalin</i> and the Canon of Dystopian Farce — Zach Vasquez

The Death of Stalin and the Canon of Dystopian Farce

Apr 17th, 2018

'If you think this country’s bad off now, just wait till I get through with it.' — Rufus T. Firefly, Duck Soup Armando Iannucci's...

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