Skyfall (dir. Sam Mendes, 2012) – Really want/need to see it again, but here’s the first of the Craig-era Bond films that tries to get away from the Bourne legacy…
On a narrative level, there’s little to say about the Coen brothers’ new version of True Grit that couldn’t be said about the first film. Plenty have talked about the…
This is It (2009, dir. Kenny Ortega) – This is what it is. A year after Michael’s death, perhaps reality has set in and his status is already sufficiently cemented…
A Serious Man (dir. Coen Brothers, 2009) – It’s been said that this is a take on the book of Job, but pshaw, I don’t think so. Or, it’s a…
Unfaithfully Yours (dir. Preston Sturges, 1948) – Another Stanford Theatre gem. Sturges tops the So-Embarrassed-I-Don’t-Know-Their-Stuff List. This was a fortuitous screening, since after viewing The Hudsucker Proxy, with all its…
In The Big Lebowski, when Walter says, “Say what you will about the tenants of national socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos,” you have to wonder if the Coens…
Though unplanned, this appropriately marks the 100th post on this blog. I dedicate it to The Dude. In my comments on the Coen Brothers’ most recent film, Burn After Reading,…
One feels that thinking on a film by the Coen brothers, especially a comedy, is a fruitless exercise. Those guys design their work in such a way that it’s not…
You can’t really get the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men unless you’ve first watched (and gotten) Blood Simple. Now I have to go re-watch the former. It’s far…
