Film Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/film/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:10:10 +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 Film Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/film/ 32 32 Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite films of 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/12/year-in-review-vanyalands-favorite-films-of-2025/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:53:26 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042813 If I had to pick one word to describe 2025 — just in general, not at the movies — it’d be “uncertain.” Not “ambiguous” or an equivalent synonym, given that there’s plenty of clearly awful things going on each day, but the kind of uncertainty that pairs well with a sense of foreboding dread. We’re stuck in a bleak comedy of fatal errors, with the sentiment of the moment ultimately summed up accurately by “Well, that’d be funny if it […]

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]]> Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite needle drops in the films of 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/09/year-in-review-vanyalands-favorite-needle-drops-in-the-films-of-2025/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:41:23 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042785 Every major awards show has a “Best Original Score” and a “Best Original Song” category, and most major critics’ groups at least give awards out for the former. But the landscape of movie soundtracks has changed drastically over the years, and the needle-drop is nearly as important. The Big Chill, Risky Business, Reservoir Dogs, Goodfellas, Guardians of the Galaxy, and a billion other examples I can’t be bothered to list out — the needle-drop is an essential part of modern […]

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]]> Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s 12 favorite films of 2024 https://vanyaland.com/2024/12/13/year-in-review-vanyalands-12-favorite-films-of-2024/ Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:47:11 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040303 To sum up the state of cinema in 2024, it’s best to paraphrase the poets known as Smash Mouth: “Well, the hits keep coming, and they don’t stop coming.” And it was an industry-wide scramble to see, after being fed to the wolves of tumultuous circumstance with COVID and strikes, if they could hit the ground running. The answer was… sort of? The house is still on fire on the Hollywood side. To name a few examples: Warner Bros. is […]

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]]> Interview: Caroline Rose on life on the road and the importance of art https://vanyaland.com/2024/04/04/interview-caroline-rose-on-life-on-the-road-and-the-importance-of-art/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:18:31 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10037771 Caroline Rose was on fire last year with their album The Art of Forgetting — quite almost literally. Their fourth studio full-length, released in March via New West, was Grammy-nominated for its cover art, which features Rose coolly lounging as the room they’re in is on fire. Now, Rose and band are on tour for their final lap for The Art of Forgetting, including a stop this Sunday (April 7) at Royale in Boston. Earlier this week, Rose — whose […]

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]]> Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite films of 2023 https://vanyaland.com/2023/12/13/year-in-review-vanyalands-favorite-films-of-2023/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:21:04 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10036783 Well, I think we can all say that this wasn’t how 2023 was supposed to go for the film industry. Trust me, I hate to go all Jimmy Carter on you, but it’s got to be said. 2022 had fucking energy, dudes: Movies were back and in a big way following two years of on-and-off COVID restrictions and the entire release schedule being thrown into perpetual disarray. The streamers were in turmoil (and that hasn’t changed, as much as everything […]

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]]> ‘Moonage Daydream’ is Brett Morgen’s fantastic voyage into David Bowie’s mind https://vanyaland.com/2022/09/27/moonage-daydream-is-brett-morgens-fantastic-voyage-into-david-bowies-mind/ Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:14:45 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10032048 A few months back, I had the pleasure of reading Dana Stevens’ Camera Man, which is a new biography of Buster Keaton that attempts to place Old Stone Face into a historical context. Stevens sees Keaton’s lifespan and the particulars of his story as a way of documenting the rapid changes in American life over the course of some seventy-odd years. He was born into a world that had cinema, of course. However, it was still seen as a novelty […]

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]]> All of the ‘James Bond’ theme songs, ranked from worst to first https://vanyaland.com/2021/10/05/all-of-the-james-bond-theme-songs-ranked-from-worst-to-first/ Tue, 05 Oct 2021 16:48:00 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10028025 Launch Poll By design, Bond movies and Bond themes go together like peanut butter and jelly, or peanut butter and chocolate, or peanut butter and any number of other delicious foodstuffs: Sure, they can work on their own, but would you really want to have them separately once you’ve tried them together? Ever since Goldfinger hit back in ’64, each film in the franchise has had a single, typically performed by a diva (or divo, to use the Italian), which […]

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]]> Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s 20 favorite films of 2020 https://vanyaland.com/2020/12/15/year-in-review-vanyalands-20-favorite-films-of-2020/ Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:31:30 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10024260 Here’s what’s sure to be an incredibly divisive hot take for you about the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand And Twenty: It absolutely sucked. There are a select handful of people on this Earth who have emerged unscathed from this year in some way or form, and they’re probably the ones who are going to buy up either the pandemic-ruined movie theaters or studios as soon as a big enough one goes under. You know, your Bezos or Musks. […]

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]]> Quarantainment: Maybe it’s time to revisit ‘The Hateful Eight’ https://vanyaland.com/2020/03/17/quarantainment-maybe-its-time-to-revisit-the-hateful-eight/ Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:55:48 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10019780 Editor’s Note: Welcome to Quarantainment, Vanyaland’s new series on what to watch, what to hear, and how to deal as the world engages in social distancing to combat the spread of coronavirus, or COVID-19. We’re all at home, we’re all online, and we’re all in this together. #StayTheFHome Out of all of Quentin Tarantino’s film work, only two movies he’s directed can be said to have had a chilly reception. The lukewarm response to the first, 2007’s Death Proof, can […]

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]]> Oscar Gambling: Vanyaland’s 2020 Academy Awards betting guide https://vanyaland.com/2020/02/06/oscar-gambling-vanyalands-2020-academy-awards-betting-guide/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:27:30 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10018396 Happy Oscar Season, y’all. It’s been an incredibly short awards season this year — normally we have a solid month between now and Sundance to put this dumb little column together — but, like the host-less ceremonies that were a shocking hit with everyone last year, it’s been pretty good for the format, all things considered. Somehow, someway, we all managed to survive Green Book winning Best Picture last year, even though Film Twitter very nearly imploded on itself. We […]

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