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...
Zach Vasquez Raw, Get Out, and the State of the Modern Body-Horror Film Apr 18th, 2017Early on in two recent horror films from debut directors — Get Out and Raw — we are treated to individual takes on what has been a trope of the...
Zach Vasquez Hell Will Hold No Surprises: Ken Russell’s 'The Devils' Apr 4th, 2017The first image we see in Ken Russell’s The Devils is one of comedy: King Louis XIII of France prances about on stage, wearing a string bikini...