Q. V. HOUGH

Mission: Vague Visages aims to publish high-quality writing about world cinema and culture. The site maintains a balance of indie and mainstream coverage, allowing for a unique blend of perspectives.

Origins: Inspired by the cinema movement known as La Nouvelle Vague, Q.V. Hough created an image-based blog called “Faces of the French New Wave” in 2014. For a creative twist, the site’s name quickly changed to “Vague Visages” (aka Wave Faces) in honor of French New Wave filmmakers and American indie filmmaker John Cassavetes (director of the 1968 film Faces).

Shift to Film Criticism: Q.V. moved Vague Visages from Blogger to WordPress in late 2014, using the French publication Cahiers du cinéma as a thematic model.

Between March 2018 and July 2021, I wrote approximately 2,000 news and features articles for Screen Rant.

In January 2018, I joined Fandor's freelance writing team and later developed into a video essayist with four recurring series (Icons + Outliers, Riding the Wave, Between the Lines and Fandor Italian Style).

From 2014 to 2017, I wrote over 600 video scripts for the WatchMojo brand. In addition, I wrote their first e-book, "WatchMojo's 100 Decade-Defining Movie Moments of the 1990s."