Black Bag Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/black-bag/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:09:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png Black Bag Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/black-bag/ 32 32 Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite film screen performances of 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/11/year-in-review-our-favorite-film-screen-performances-of-2025/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:54:57 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042798 If you’d like to know my thoughts on acting in movies, I’d point you to the scene from Moneyball in which Billy Beane tries to convince Scott Hatteberg to play first base. It is incredibly hard, though the compensation and fame and all of the other accoutrements go a long way to convince the average schlub that it’s easy as hell. Just imagine trying to do a monologue in which you have to run the gamut of emotions while not […]

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]]> Half-Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s 10 favorite films of 2025 (so far) https://vanyaland.com/2025/07/03/half-year-in-review-vanyalands-10-favorite-films-of-2025-so-far/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:15:41 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041935 Boy, this year fucking sucks, huh? Between every shitty thing in the news to the geniuses we’ve lost (RIP David Lynch, Sly Stone, Gene Hackman, Jeff Baena, Val Kilmer, Brian Wilson, David Johannson, Roberta Flack and so many more wonderful people that I can’t mention without this just turning into a memorial wall), it can be pretty hard to see any daylight amid all the clouds. That’s a cute metaphor, but it feels somewhat true: What glimmers of light we’ve […]

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]]> ‘Black Bag’ Review: Steven Soderbergh is two-for-two in 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/03/12/black-bag-review-steven-soderbergh-is-two-for-two-in-2025/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:07:33 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040966 Steven Soderbergh and David Koepp are having a great 2025. After kicking the new year off with Presence, a dope little experiment in first-person spectral voyeurism, they’ve switched gears and gone full Ocean’s 11 mode. I don’t just mean in terms of a heist or con, which is partly what their new film, Black Bag, is about, but how this film appeals to the legacy of 20th-century Hollywood (and, well, the British equivalent). You have show-of-force star power in Michael […]

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