Zach Vasquez Zach Vasquez Says Don’t Forget: I, Olga Hepnarová Dec 26th, 2017With all due respect to troubled figure skaters from the ‘90s, if you see only one I, movie this year, make it I, Olga Hepnarová. Like the more...
Zach Vasquez A Good Man Is Hard To Find: Grace and Forgiveness in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Dec 4th, 2017Lapsed Catholic though he is, Martin McDonagh, the Irish (by way of London) playwright-turned-filmmaker loves to explore the interconnected themes of...
Zach Vasquez Remember, Remember, These Five for Noirvember Nov 15th, 2017November is the month wherein movie lovers, programmers, and critics turn their attention to the genre of film noir — Noirvember as it’s come to...
Zach Vasquez Wind River, Hell or High Water, Sicario: Taylor Sheridan’s American Elegy Trilogy Nov 14th, 2017There have been few career turnarounds and rapid-fire ascendancies in Hollywood as impressive as Taylor Sheridan’s. A working actor for the last 20...
Zach Vasquez Report from Beyond Fest 2017 Oct 16th, 2017Last week was the fifth edition of Beyond Fest, Los Angeles’s most popular genre film celebration. Over the course of 11 days, the historic...
Zach Vasquez Harry Dean Stanton Dissolves into Thin Air Sep 18th, 2017“It seems like everybody loves Harry Dean!” So said David Lynch last October, as he presented the Vidiots Foundation’s inaugural Harry Dean...
Zach Vasquez David Lynch’s Personal Odyssey in Twin Peaks: The Return Sep 4th, 2017Twin Peaks: The Return managed to both exceed and confound its viewers’ expectations. This feat is doubly impressive considering how little was...
Zach Vasquez The War on Coal: John Sayles' Matewan at 30 Aug 28th, 2017This month marks the 30th anniversary of John Sayles’s Matewan, an American classic that fell through the cracks upon release and remains...
Zach Vasquez Charles Manson and the Current Fascination with the 1970s Violence and Cinema Aug 15th, 2017When it was announced that Quentin Tarantino’s next film would involve the Manson Family murders, the news was met with excitement, outrage,...
Zach Vasquez Alternate History Lessons in White Man’s Burden Aug 3rd, 2017When HBO announced its greenlighting of Confederate, a new series from the show-runners of Game of Thrones, the news was met with a barrage of...
Zach Vasquez Why Baby Driver Deserves Recognition As a Great Musical Jun 30th, 2017When Edgar Wright premiered his new film, Baby Driver, earlier this year at SXSW, critics and viewers were quick to compare it to La La Land. Both...
Zach Vasquez The Beguiling Case of Art-House Remakes Jun 20th, 2017One of the most anticipated films in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled. The Civil War period piece...
Zach Vasquez Logan: Noir and Watching Movies in the Age of Instagram Jun 1st, 2017Thanks to Netflix, Amazon, and other streaming services, and with high-quality home-entertainment systems more affordable than ever, theaters have...
Zach Vasquez What Is It That Makes David Lynch Movies 'Lynchian'? May 9th, 2017How do we measure the importance of an artist? One way is to look at how often their influence is identified in the work of other artists. But an...
Zach Vasquez Walter Hill's Extreme Prejudice Turns 30 (Going on 60) Apr 25th, 2017On more than one occasion, it has been my duty to inform some poor/lucky soul — poor in the sense that they have gone their whole life unaware of...
