Tagged No Country for Old Men

Almost a decade ago, the 2008 Academy Awards saw an influx of Westerns. No Country for Old Men took the Best Picture statuette (among others), while nominations for sound and cinematography were dished out to...

Pure comedies don’t take much home come awards season. This makes sense if you're talking about the factory line of studio comedies, but in the case of Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz, it's an outrage. No comedy...

The Western was once one of Hollywood’s most important and bankable staple genres, but come the 1960s and the various changes that brought for the industry its popularity waned, never to recover save a few...

­­­­ This week's release of Hail, Caesar! marks the directorial return of Ethan & Joel Coen. Arguably two of the greatest filmmakers of their generation, the Coens have sprinkled the past three...

In the run-up to this year’s Oscars we’ll be running some debates on classic Oscar categories, beginning with 2008’s Best Picture nominees: Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood and No...

Way back when, Good People would likely be hitting a supermarket’s DVD bin with a big fat “4.99!” sticker slapped on the case. Now it’ll shuffle onto Netflix under “Crime Films”, 1.5 red stars...

The Western genre is sumptuously classical, historically entwined with cinema since its birth - and yet it is also helplessly turbulent, subject to postcolonial criticism for the histories it depicts in its...

There is an almost mythic timelessness that permeates Andrew Dominik’s 2007 will-be masterpiece The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Seven years on it is not hard to see how such a...