Few things make a book feel fancier than a hard slipcase, so it’s always a treat diving into Ian Nathan’s elegant and thorough tomes on film. Like Terminator Vault and Tim Burton: The Iconic Filmmaker…
In the day-in-the-life film, Josh Brolin stars as a fictionalized version of real-life Hollywood studio exec Eddie Mannix, who – to protect Capitol Pictures and the reputations of its talent – spends …
Everett (George Clooney), Pete (John Turturro), and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) are cons on the run from the law, after they make their great escape from the chain gang (oh, it takes place vaguely in th…
Inside Llewyn Davis is undeniably a gorgeous looking film, capturing a moment in the 1961 when the folk movement was finding its groove. Joel and Ethan Coen, along with cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel…
Mush-mouthed and cantankerous, Rooster Cogburn has little time for fools, but recognizes a tough character when he sees one. When 14-year-old headstrong Mattie Ross (newcomer Hailee Steinfeld) approac…
The Coen Brothers take a novel approach to No Country for Old Men. And I mean that literally—this film is the most novel-like movie I've seen in ages, and, well, author Cormac McCarthy (whose book the…
First of all, what the eff with the first 10 minutes or so of the movie? I almost popped out the DVD to check the label on the movie I was watching. Even in the extras, Joel and Ethan Coen giggled and…
My enduring memory of The Big Lebowski is this: upon its video release, the owner of the video store where I worked said something along the lines of, "That is just a fantastic movie, but it's a shame…
