The Coen Brothers, Charles Portis, and True Grit Rory Steabler December 21, 2020 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Ten years on from its release, True Grit has settled firmly into the middle ground of Joel and Ethan Coen’s filmography. It's well-respected in the Coen canon but doesn’t seem to be many people’s...
Checking in on the Modern Western Rory Steabler January 4, 2018 Analysis, Features, One Off 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...
Cinema’s Greatest Drunks Carmen Paddock May 17, 2017 Features, Top 10 The intriguingly bizarre premise of Colossal – to be released on May 19 in the UK – follows a young alcoholic played by Anne Hathaway and her seeming control over a Kaiju destroying Seoul. If reviews of...
Top 10 Modern Westerns Jack Blackwell September 20, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 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...
A Beginner’s Guide To… The Coen Brothers Chris Davies December 10, 2013 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features 3 Comments Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have created critically-acclaimed films in a range of genres for the past thirty years, including The Big Lebowski, Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and No Country for Old...
