Vaughn‘s film reviews with a twist! Each week, the Review Roulette wheel lands on an approach that I then use to watch and review a film from the 20th century
Latest Posts
- The Worst Guy You’ve Ever Met vs. The Realest
A Race & Ethnicity Approach to Clash by Night (1952) - The Godfather 2 1/2: Simba’s Pride
A Comparative Approach to The Godfather Part II (1974) - Monster Mash V: The Monsters You Never Suspect
A Personal Reflection on The Blob (1958) - Monster Mash IV: Monsters We See in the Therapist’s Blob
A Comparative Approach to The Birds (1963) The Birds (1963)… - Monster Mash III: The Great War and Modern Monsters
A Marxist Approach to Gods and Monsters (1998) [Contains spoilers]… - Monster Mash II: Monsters in a Crystal Cave of Culture
A Contemporary History and Disciplinary Approach to Frankenstein (1931) - Monster Mash I: Monsters Wrapped in Unjust Laws and Bible Quotes
A Genre Approach to The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) - Methodology III: Return of the Jedi
A Methodological Refresh Hello, darlings, and welcome to our new… - Newman’s Own Combination Brothel Hut and Carousel
A Formalist Approach to The Sting (1973) The Sting (1973)… - This Bluesmobile Fights Fascists
An Apparatus Approach to The Blues Brothers (1980) The Blues… - “You Work on Wall Street?” “What, Like It’s Hard?”
A Feminist Approach to Working Girl (1988) Working Girl (1988)…
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Here are a few posts migrated from their original publication on Substack. I will repost them here with their original publication dates as I reference them in new reviews.
- Nielsen’s New Son Neeson Nails It
A Thought on the Franchise The Naked Gun (2025) –… - Frank Drebin and a Lion Save the Planet from Robert Goulet
A (Kinda) Genre Approach to The Naked Gun 2 1/2… - Ferris Bueller Didn’t Kill OJ Simpson, but Frank Drebin Did Save the Queen
A Formalist Approach to The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) - The Great American Melting Pot Needs A Little Spice
A Dualist Approach to Mississippi Masala (1991) Mississippi Masala (1991)… - Here’s Thinking With You, Kid
An Alternate Reading of Casablanca (1942) [Contains Spoilers] Casablanca (1942)… - I’m a God Damn Marvel of Modern Film Scholarship
A Contextual History Approach to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Next (1975) - Nuance in New Orleans
Nuance in New Orleans An Apparatus Approach to A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - The Visible Magic of Asking “Why?”
A Contemporary History Approach to Klaus (2019) [Contains spoilers] Klaus…
Review Roulette recently moved to this space on its 2nd anniversary in September 2025. For backdated reviews that have not been transported over, please get in touch with Vaughn or see the originals on Substack.