Holy Hell! O Brother, Where Art Thou? Turns 20 A delightful Coens romp through Greek mythology, the Depression-era South and the human psyche. Read More
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs These two sardonic moralists succeed in inhabiting each extreme in equal proportion, blending and reshaping familiar narratives as only they can. Read More
Holy Hell! The Big Lebowski Turns 20 Viewed 20 years later, The Big Lebowski’s wry satirization of capitalism becomes more pronounced. Read More
The Coen Brothers: by Ian Nathan The Coen Brothers doesn’t purport to get inside the heads of these modern masters, but it does give readers a fly-on-the-wall peek. Read More
Holy Hell! Fargo Turns 20 Fargo shows the Coen Brothers working in a progressive, political fashion without sacrificing any other endearing traits. Read More
Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2010!! Five years is an eternity in the life of a film. When coming up with this feature, the question the Spectrum Culture staff pondered was this: “How well do these movies play NOW!” Not five years ago, but how have they aged in our memories. While some acclaimed films of 2010 remain strong on our list, some critically-lauded ones didn’t … Read More
Criminally Underrated: The Hudsucker Proxy Slammed on release for being derivative and expensive, contemptuous and without substance, The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) was the Coen Brothers’ first true critical failure. Though set in the late 1950s, Hudsucker Proxy is a pastiche of classic Hollywood directors from the 1930s and 1940s such as Frank Capra, Howard Hawks and Preston Sturges. The hero of our story, one Norville … Read More
Inside Llewyn Davis [xrr rating=3.75/5]Ah, hipsters, you gotta love them. In a society dictated by Facebook and Pitchfork, hipsters are enjoying a greater power share, one that rivals the early ‘60s when a very different kind of hipster cat changed the face of popular music. That is why Inside Llewyn Davis, the new film from the Coen Brothers, is an allegory about a … Read More
Chet Baker: (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You/Chet Baker in New York/Chet/Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe-review
Chet Baker: (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You/Chet Baker in New York/Chet/Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe-review