This book made a big noise on release, and Spouse bought me a copy for Christmas shortly thereafter, which I…
Pretty appropriation
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is an altogether more straightforward seeming film than the Coen Brothers’ typical output. Goofy comedies…
Elegant dismemberment
Zainab Akhtar at ShortBox is really the acme of independent comics editors: she just gets it. Everything she puts out…
Glamour and technique
Technique is a weirdly invisible thing in film. Everything a director or an editor does is right there in front…
Adversity included
‘Let’s be bold’, Hope and Social admonish their listeners in the song of that title, the third track of this…
Beautiful scaffolding
Certain themes and techniques recur throughout Joel and Ethan Coen’s films. Convoluted crime stories with arbitrary conclusions in which none…
Eyes the same size as her stomach
Luchie (as illustrator and cartoonist Lucie Bryon likes to call herself) was apparently blessed with extremely large eyes as a…
Crashing out
We’ve been watching a lot of Coen Brothers films of late, which display so much love for the Golden Age…
Brash beauty
I knew nothing about Julian Lage before beginning to listen to this album, on the recommendation of James Beaudreau (an…
An essay in unreality
People like to ascribe meanings to Coen Brothers films. I mean, they must mean something, right? They’re so tricksy and…
Words and music by Cory Barlog
Having come late to the garden of gaming delights, I’m dropping in on some series at the end of a…
Rapid charm
‘Oh no, the lizard! The lizard’ I was heard to shout when I first watched Bringing Up Baby—in fact I…
Worlds and authorities
I was spurred by the recent BBC TV adaptation of Northern Lights to re-read Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy,…
None of this matters
The Big Lebowski is such a legendary movie that it’s almost embarrassing to admit this is the first time I’ve…
