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 ...

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 ...

The Loft is celebrating the Coen Brothers all month long in September. The retrospective kicks off tonight with their first film, Blood Simple, a noir tribute that holds up great almost three decades ...

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 ...