Film (2016)
Written and Directed by
Joel and Ethan Coen
With Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand
Considering narrative choices in the Coens’ portrait of 1950s Hollywood.
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Further reflections on
Where To Invade Next
Film (2015)
Directed by Michael Moore
A terrific travelogue with incisive commentary about social welfare practices abroad that Moore rightly argues should be implemented in the United States.
Hail, Caesar!
Film (2016)
Written and directed by
Joel and Ethan Coen
With Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand
A hilarious send-up of Hollywood in the 1950s, with, though they’re a bit hard to find, some serious overtones.
The Revenant
Film (2015)
Directed by Alejandro Iñárritu
With Leonardo DiCaprio
A violent and cathartic portrayal of attack, hard-won survival, and the settling of accounts, among fur-traders in 1823 in Montana and South Dakota.
The Hateful Eight
Film (2015)
Written and directed by
Quentin Tarantino
With Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth , Bruce Dern, Channing Tatum
A very long and violent treatment in classic Tarantino style of a bunch of cowboys and bounty hunters in Wyoming sometime after the Civil War who congregate in a roadside cabin.