The Coen Brothers' debut feature, Blood Simple., is a vital part of their filmography, not only because its a debut that already shows artists confident in their own skill, but also as a sort of stripped down, demo version of much of their later work.
Coppola’s magnum opus continues to remain one of the definitive films about the Mafia, the American dream, and simply one of the greatest films ever made, outright.
A sprawling, 3 hour meditation and examination of the Corleone family, The Godfather serves as a study of not only the dynamics of mid-1940s Italian mob families, but also a study on such varied topics as manhood, the American Dream, greed, ambition and vengeance.
Eight years ago today, Dreamworks brought the Chris Gall books of half-dinosaur/half-vehicle creatures to life!
Burn After Reading is the Coen Brothers sarcastic and intentionally screwball riff on the notoriously straight laced genre of spy thriller. Intentionally taking the multitudes of tropes and plot points that fill the genre and playing them for pure absurdity, the film revels in it's madness and lack of logic, in a way that really, only a Coen Brothers film can.
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This is your friendly film, TV Show, and episode reporter here with another review.
And today, for my 16th episode review and final installment of this year's "Christmas Craze", I'll be reviewing MLP: FiM's "The Best Gift Ever".