Joey Keogh

1 week ago | vaguevisages.com | Joey Keogh

2020s Vague Visages’ Consecrationreview contains minor spoilers. Sean Byrne’s 2025 movie features Jena Malone, Danny Huston and Janet Suzman. Check out the VV home page for more film criticism, movie reviews and film essays. Religious horror is having a moment right now. More specifically, nuns are big business with Immaculate and The First Omen released in quick succession in 2024, with both faring reasonably well critically and commercially.

2 weeks ago | vaguevisages.com | Joey Keogh

2020s Vague Visages’ Dangerous Animalsreview contains minor spoilers. Sean Byrne’s 2025 movie features Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney and Josh Heuston. Check out the VV home page for more film criticism, movie reviews and film essays. Tons of shark movies get released each year, but few manage to make a ripple, let alone a splash.

1 month ago | wickedhorror.com | Joey Keogh

Netflix’s adaptations of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps-for-grownups series Fear Street were ludicrously popular with horror fans even though there wasn’t an ounce of originality or ingenuity in the initial three installments.

1 month ago | vaguevisages.com | Joey Keogh

2020s Vague Visages’ Swing Bout review contains minor spoilers. Maurice O’Carroll’s 2024 movie features Ciara Berkeley, Chrissie Cronin and Sinead O’Riordan. Check out the VV home page for more film criticism, movie reviews and film essays. There’s a surprisingly long tradition of great female boxing in Ireland, with Olympic champion Katie Taylor immediately springing to mind.

2 months ago | vaguevisages.com | Joey Keogh

Vague Visages’ Queens of Drama review contains minor spoilers. Alexis Langlois’ 2024 movie features Louiza Aura, Gio Ventura and Alma Jodorowsky. Check out the VV home page for more film criticism, movie reviews and film essays. Queer joy remains in depressingly short supply in mainstream media, with the deplorable “kill your gays” trope still regularly popping up.