There are a few creators who tend to pop up pretty frequently over the course of this project. Directors who really connect with me, and whose work is a reliable source of entertainment and inspiration. The Coen Brothers are that type of creators, two men who make […]
The entire point of this Cinematic Century project was to talk about movies that I normally wouldn’t get to discuss on the site. So often I got swept up with new releases and didn’t have time to talk about the movies that served as the foundation of […]
The next couple weeks here on Cinematic Century are going to be pretty rough, veritable bloodbaths of competitions to find my favorite film of any given year. Things are really going to start popping off, just giving me incredibly difficult decisions. But, not 1996. I really didn’t […]
We’ve made it into another decade here on Cinematic Century, and what better way to start the 1990’s off than with a slow moving crime drama! We went from the sheer excess of Tim Burton’s Batman last week to our very first trip into the weird world of the […]
Over the course of their illustrious career, the Coen Brothers have gained the reputation of being creators that are hard to figure out what they’re going to do next. Their films have a general aesthetic to them, but within that aesthetic they’re able to tell stories […]
Earlier this year I came across a trailer for the new film from George Clooney, and the movie we’ll be discussing today, Suburbicon. I hadn’t really heard anything about it, so when I watched the trailer I was going in blind. And I was intrigued. It looked like a […]
Folks, we’ve been spoiled lately. Not only do we get a new amazing Tarantino movie, we get a new Coen Brothers movie. I’ve talked a little about the work or Joel and Ethan Coen on this site, but certainly not enough. They’re wonderful. The Coen Brothers are […]
I’ve mentioned a couple times on the site that I have a deep love of James Bond. And while I know the things James Bond does aren’t really accurate representations of espionage (there’s less speed-boat chases) he was my gateway drug into the world of more spy fiction. […]
So for my birthday yesterday my wife and I went to a screening of one of my favorite movies, O Brother, Where Art Thou? It’s amazing, and after seeing it on the big screen, I just had to ramble about it. I love the Coen Brothers. Their films are all […]