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The header on the stationary at the Hotel Earle reads: “A Day or a Lifetime.” And with that comes the key to entering the strange world constructed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Later in the film, when Barton (John Turturro) is pressed about how…

To say the Western is a dying genre would be wrong but it's nowhere near as healthy as it once was. Still, as long as the Coen Brothers are making movies it will never really die. Out this day last year, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs set…

It’s hard to pick the funniest moment in Burn After Reading. Is it George Clooney’s dildo chair? Is it the photo of Richard Jenkins dressed as an Orthodox priest? Is it Brad Pitt’s dancing? All of these moments are great but it might be how…

The criminal mind is something we’ve endeavoured to understand, explain, and control ever since the first cave man hit his friend over the head with a bit of wood. Over the years, behaviour has gotten easier to explain to those that catch…

A man I know often ponders the contradiction observed in a mutual friend, a writer. “Why does she write such sad books, and yet have such twinkly eyes?” he laments. The author in question certainly does write very serious fiction. It’s…

Various Artists Inside Llewyn Davis Soundtrack Joel and Ethan Coen confirm the integral role of traditional and American folk-song in their cinematic auteurship with the melancholic Inside Llewyn Davis. In 2013 the Coen brothers were…

Cinema in 2015 was dominated by wide-screen, jaw dropping moments that reminded you just how much awe and wonder the medium can inspire. The best picture race this year has, surprisingly, reflected this. While there are the usual talk-y…

Hello, It's late. I've toiled and toiled to find things for you to digest but the drought continues. I'm like a olde-timey prospector looking for love in all the wrong places or something. I just don't know. Maybe I'm a man out of time, a…

We're only interested in one thing, Bart. Can you tell a story? Can you make us laugh? Can you make us cry? Can you make us want to break out in joyous song? Is that more than one thing? Okay! – Jack Lipnik, Barton Fink - Written by Joel…