Coen Brothers

15 Inferior Best Picture Oscar Winners (And the Enduring Classics They Beat)

Last Wednesday, Craiggers hit on some forgotten Best Picture Academy Award winners, films which have slipped through the cracks of society's consciousness for one reason or another; either for being too of-the-moment, not having enough quotable lines, or for simply not having held up very well -- hi ... More >>

You In Color: The Black Angels' Christian Bland Talks Film Scores

Photo By Craig HlavatyThe Black Angels' Alex Maas at Free Press Summerfest in June​Tomorrow night the Black Angels hit Houston for the third time in about a year, with a gig over at Fitzgerald's with fellow retro-doomers Dead Meadow and Spindrift. The last time the Angels were in Houston it wa ... More >>

Top 10 Songs Famous Because Of A Movie

​Wednesday night, surf-guitar hero Dick Dale played to a packed Continental Club, in what Rocks Off's buddy Lonesome Onry and Mean and several others have since said was one of the best shows they've ever seen. The song that sent everyone home with their ears ringing and their fingers on fire ... More >>

Teenage Mutant Ninja

Virtuoso filmmaking, retro ­politics in a crisp thriller.

How the West Is Won

The Coen brothers take their tongues out of their cheeks for True Grit.

Kickass Movies of the Year

Our Ten Favorites from 2010 – including Jackass 3D.

Pop Rocks: Remake My Day 2 (The Remakening)

Honestly, do you really care?​I write a lot about Hollywood's obsession with remakes because I'm a movie buff, first and foremost, and because as a "writer" it's easy to milk an announcement of the latest atrocity from Platinum Dunes for 750 indignant words regarding the creative demise of Hollywo ... More >>

WorldFest Discovered Steven Spielberg...And Oliver Stone...And Ang Lee...And...

​The 43rd Annual WorldFest -- Houston International Film & Video Festival (damn, that's a long name) can claim to have been the launching pad for several major directors; Steven Spielberg, George Lucas (in the same year), Ang Lee, Ridley Scott, Robert Rodriguez, the Coen Brothers, Brian de Pal ... More >>

A Preview Of The 2010 WorldFest, And A Chance To Win Big And See Stuff For Free

The 43rd annual WorldFest kicks off this Friday. The "fiercely independent" film festival is one of the oldest international fests in the country, and the oldest independent festival in the world. Many directors you may have heard of received their first awards here, including Steven Spielberg, Joh ... More >>

Year in Film: Three Critics, One List, Ten Best

J. Hoberman, Robert Wilonsky and Scott Foundas put their minds together and come up with their favorite films of the year. Let's hear it for teamwork!

Lonesome Onry and Mean: The Sickest, Most Twisted Musical Genre Isn't Gangsta Rap - It's Bluegrass

Not really sure whether it's our alcohol mixture, some pharmacological imbalance our sex life or just male menopausal phenomena, but lately Lonesome, Onry and Mean has been on an evil bluegrass jag. Nothing like playing our Stanley Brothers 45-rpm of "If I Lose" - "If I lose, let me lose/ I don't c ... More >>

For The Lebowski Bash: Five Dudes Better Than The Dude

The Big Lebowski has undergone a hell of a transformation since hitting big screens over a decade ago. A (very) mild financial success upon theatrical release, it's gone on to become a bona fide cult phenomenon, spawning "Dudeism" -- an online religion with over 60,000 ordained ministers -- and the ... More >>

Bad for the Jews

Self-hating or just everyone-hating? The Coen Brothers aim their contempt at MOTs.

MP3 of the Day: Kenny "Roaster" Rogers at His Freakiest

​Because of Tuesday's We Were Wolves/Satin Hooks show (our ears are still ringing), the Mink moved its weekly movie night to 9 p.m. tonight, but it's worth the wait. They'll be showing the Coen brothers' 1996 classic The Big Lebowski, with $3 White Russians and a pair of Sunny Day Real Estate tick ... More >>

Our Man At Sundance, Part Two: The Screening

Former Houston Press reporter Steve McVicker is reporting from the Sundance Film Festival:Well, Sunday's screening of "our" film, I Love You Phillip Morris, came and went last night, with still no official word of having been snapped up by any major distribution company for mucho dollars. However ... More >>

Houston Film Critics Society 2008 Awards Presentation

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Oh, Canada

Midway through the Toronto film fest, and things are looking bleak

Intolerable Cruelty: Burn After Reading

Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery

No Country for Old Men, South Park: Imaginationland, Sleuth, Five Days

Miss Pop Rocks Loves (the Second Half of) the Oscars

Alls I’m Sayin’ is Juno Better Win Best Picture

The Big Lebowski

The hero of this Coen Brothers cult classic is an icon to burnt-out Gen Y-ers

The Year In Film

Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

No Country for Old Men

Coen Brothers transcend themselves with this West Texas tale

The Joy in the Bubble

Cannes 2007 was a success, but how many of its movies will you actually get to see?

We Aren't the World

How the Americans fared at Cannes.

Cannes d'Awards

Foreign films dominate this year at Cannes.

Palme d'Hoberman

Our one-man jury bestows honors on the best of Cannes 2007.

Idlewild

OutKast's depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the Old South

Our top DVD picks for the week of October 18

Suth'n Comfort

The Coens score big with Ladykillers -- thanks to Hanks

The S-Word

Bad Santa is crude and rude and the jolliest Christmas movie ever

A Ball, Screwed

The Coens make a '40s comedy with a Cary named Clooney

Mighty Mediocre

Wind bags a few charming laughs, but mostly meanders

Year of the Woman

The big-screen dames of cinema 2003 will keep you watching

Old News

Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded a good harvest

Banjos on the Bayou

Ralph Stanley and company come down from the mountain

Flirting with Disaster

America, you deserve The Anna Nicole Show

Saturday Knight Fever

Anachronistic music and grand pageantry combine for a rollicking good Tale

Object of Desire

Liv Tyler toys with the tongue-hanging boys in One Night at McCool's

Road Outrageous

The Coens take Homer on a Southern-fried odyssey in O Brother

Blueprint in Blood

Restored and recut, the Coen brothers' debut film provides clues on the gruesomeness to come

Redneck Mystery Theater

Sneeringly funny Drowning Mona sleuths around backwater America

Good Trouble

John Frankenheimer influences a new generation of thrill seekers with Reindeer Games

Wonderfully Wicked

A Simple Plan spins gold from stark greed

Backwoods Bin of Sin

Powerful Clay Pigeons scores with country-style noir

Coens Go to Pot

Murder, She Said

Fargo gives us comedy, killing -- and an eight-month pregnant detective

Murder Most Fine

A tasty noir treat is rescued from the video heap

The Raising Arizona Proxy

The Coen brothers' best movies couldn't make it, so they sent this one instead