Few filmmakers were fighting on the frontlines of independent cinema in the 1980s like Joel and Ethan Coen. In a moviegoing decade defined by Reagan-era censorship and big-budget blockbusters like ...

Blood Simple is a gloriously clean, well-constructed darkly comic noir that rides the border between pure satire and utter nihilism. Forty years after its release in January of 1985, the first Coen ...

Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and movie features writer. He is also an independent filmmaker and member of the Screen Actors Guild based out of Los Angeles. Zach grew up watching ...