THE VAST OF NIGHT
hat’s the frequency, Kenneth? Set in the ’50s, when Cold War paranoia and Space Race aspirations loomed large in America, centres on a mysterious radio signal that hangs in the air over the fictional small town of Cayuga, New Mexico, and the local teens, Everett (Jake Horowitz) and Fay (Sierra McCormick), who set out to uncover the source. It’s the perfect setting for an extraterrestrial disturbance to shake up an idyllic oasis of Americana—so perfect that the set-up, like the mythical ’50s backdrop, initially feels a touch too clichéd for its own good. But what begins as a film playing with recognizable sci-fi
