So long January, we thought you’d never end. We’re now at that point in the semester where you’re trying to figure how little you can get away with contributing in seminars, and you’re not really ready […]
A Most Violent Year reflects an undercurrent of cold desperation
2014 may well be remembered as the year that the spirit of 1970s suspense cinema returned to Hollywood. In recent months Nightcrawler, Whiplash and The Drop have directly evoked this era and A Most Violent […]
Film | Inside Llewyn Davis – bleak but hugely enjoyable
Image: Studio Canal Here is the Coen brothers’ first film since the 2010 remake of True Grit, and perhaps again that title would be appropriate. There is an almost bleary, ghostly hue to the screen […]