Pretty appropriation

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is an altogether more straightforward seeming film than the Coen Brothers’ typical output. Goofy comedies … More

Elegant dismemberment

Zainab Akhtar at ShortBox is really the acme of independent comics editors: she just gets it. Everything she puts out … More

Technique is a weirdly invisible thing in film. Everything a director or an editor does is right there in front … More

Certain themes and techniques recur throughout Joel and Ethan Coen’s films. Convoluted crime stories with arbitrary conclusions in which none … More

Luchie (as illustrator and cartoonist Lucie Bryon likes to call herself) was apparently blessed with extremely large eyes as a … More

We’ve been watching a lot of Coen Brothers films of late, which display so much love for the Golden Age … More

I knew nothing about Julian Lage before beginning to listen to this album, on the recommendation of James Beaudreau (an … More

People like to ascribe meanings to Coen Brothers films. I mean, they must mean something, right? They’re so tricksy and … More

Having come late to the garden of gaming delights, I’m dropping in on some series at the end of a … More

‘Oh no, the lizard! The lizard’ I was heard to shout when I first watched Bringing Up Baby—in fact I … More

I was spurred by the recent BBC TV adaptation of Northern Lights to re-read Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, … More

The Big Lebowski is such a legendary movie that it’s almost embarrassing to admit this is the first time I’ve … More

Cwtch is a long-distance collaboration which concluded last year, between Paul Foster, a Welsh electronic music producer, and Marie Craven, … More