Zach Vasquez

2 months ago | crookedmarquee.com | Zach Vasquez

There is a reason that Terry Zwigoff’s brilliant documentary Crumb (1995) isn’t called R. Crumb, despite the fact that its central figure is the legendary comic artist who bears that name. Although the film started out as an intimate, yet straightforward study of the man and his work, over the course of the six years that Zwigoff shot it, it became a movie about the Crumb family, their shared genius and their shared psychoses.

2 months ago | crookedmarquee.com | Zach Vasquez

Studio movies of the last 20 years have been driven and defined by fake nostalgia. Endless remakes and reboots and sequels and prequels and sidequels. Superhero movies, video game movies, toy movies; movies about every true-crime phenomenon or celebrity tragedy. Movies about brand-name consumer goods. Movies about people’s favorite childhood snacks. It’s a dire time for American cinema. As ever, if it has any sort of future, it’s through the independents.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Zach Vasquez

Ahead of Easter, Saturday Night Live looks back at Jesus’s cleansing of the temple.

2 months ago | msn.com | Zach Vasquez

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2 months ago | theguardian.com | Zach Vasquez

Saturday Night Live opens with president Trump’s (James Austin Johnson’s) liberation day speech, where he rolled out his disastrous tariff plan, which he calls Magda: “Make America Great Depression Again.” Trump notes that no country is safe from his tariffs, including what he mistakenly thinks is a place called McDonald’s Island (“Get me to God’s Country,” he exclaims in the first of two digs at last weeks musical guest Morgan Wallen, which gets a huge pop from the crowd), as well as South...