Zach Vasquez

Los Angeles

Fiction at @vautrinpub, @mysterytribune and @tough_crime. Staff writer at @crookedmarquee. Bylines at @guardian, @fangoria, @crimereads, @BWDR and more.

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Articles

Nostalgia and Cultural Decay: Eephus and the State of Independent Cinema — Crooked Marquee

1 week 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.
Saturday Night Live: Jon Hamm excels as Trump heads to The White Lotus

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Zach Vasquez

Ahead of Easter, Saturday Night Live looks back at Jesus’s cleansing of the temple.
Jack Black returns for a stellar episode

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Zach Vasquez

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Saturday Night Live: Jack Black returns for a stellar episode

3 weeks 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...
Saturday Night Live: Oscar winner Mikey Madison fronts forgettable episode

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Zach Vasquez

Saturday Night Live returns from hiatus with a send-up of the Trump administration’s shocking and humiliating Signal disaster.
Lady Gaga pulls double duty in middle of the road episode

1 month ago | msn.com | Zach Vasquez

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Saturday Night Live: Lady Gaga pulls double duty in middle of the road episode

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Zach Vasquez

The new episode of Saturday Night Live opens in the White House, where, per an explosive New York Times article, a cabinet meeting ended in a shouting match between Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernández) and Doge head Elon Musk (Mike Myers). President Trump (James Austin Johnson) attempts to broker a truce between the two.
The Decade of the Dame: Looking for Mr. Goodbar — Crooked Marquee

1 month ago | crookedmarquee.com | Zach Vasquez

When Diane Keaton won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1977 for her iconic turn as the title character of Annie Hall, there were some who felt she was awarded for the wrong performance that year.
Saturday Night Live: Mike Myers makes for perfect Elon Musk in otherwise limp episode

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Zach Vasquez

Saturday Night Live certainly had its work cut out this week. The cold open was obviously going to be about the disastrous spectacle that was the oval office press conference between President Donald Trump, vice president JD Vance, and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy two days ago. Given what a clownshow the actual event was, it seemed an impossible task for SNL to parody. And for the most part, that was the case.
star-packed 50th special brings laughs and emotion

2 months ago | msn.com | Zach Vasquez

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