Unquestioned liberalism

There’s a kind of nostalgia for the Cold War, almost in the same way that British culture incorporates a nostalgia … More

Oozing style and charm

In our trawl through Humphrey Bogart’s oeuvre we’ve been sticking to the best known movies—he acted in over seventy films. … More

A musician’s life is usually precarious, especially if you’re attempting to work as a featured artist. Llewyn Davis, as played … More

Humphrey Bogart reputedly occupied something of a lonely place among his Hollywood peers—although he had his good friends, Louise Brooks, … More

Coen Brothers genre pieces are rarely without an ironic twist or two, a knowing nod to the implausibilities of the … More

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a film that’s been lurking in my brain since childhood, having been on … More

Having watched a lot of Coen Brothers movies lately, I’m starting to see their kind of purposefully aimless plotting as … More

Roger Deakins’s brilliant cinematography has been conspicuous in some of the Coen Brothers’s films—in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, for … More

At the point at which Burn After Reading was released, the Coen Brothers had a certain amount of form, in … More

Of the four films that Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together, Dark Passage is undoubtedly the most outlandish, in … More

In Alex Garland’s recent science fiction-series Devs (which is in my opinion as good a piece of SF as has … More

Watching a film like The Big Sleep in 2020 it’s almost impossible to see past its mythology. This was a … More

I guess no-one hits the target every time, creatively speaking: I certainly know I don’t. But after our project to … More

Having recently watched the Coen Brothers’ Intolerable Cruelty, a film whose production is apparently predicated on a chemistry between the … More