FINAL SKYWALKER SAGA 'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEismp375nOwTKGdaL84rVBK-RA_ZGLzSgPnNFh7TatvVOhkzws89_YiQyD-GK-tEyBzLmCqENk4Q5gLJPZ9nl7zs7xQlg_K1towNyywfofLY7v29NEMUWUVYCdTjwQyhMobhJ4gYVG1BdN1/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-12-19+at+10.35.57+PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="1180" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEismp375nOwTKGdaL84rVBK-RA_ZGLzSgPnNFh7TatvVOhkzws89_YiQyD-GK-tEyBzLmCqENk4Q5gLJPZ9nl7zs7xQlg_K1towNyywfofLY7v29NEMUWUVYCdTjwQyhMobhJ4gYVG1BdN1/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-12-19+at+10.35.57+PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Retro artwork for Star Wars THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Year: 2019</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> There's a popular term in internet circles for THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, calling it "fan service" i.e. providing fans what they'd want or expect from a STAR WARS movie. Imagine if The World Series was lambasted for the players using wooden bats to hit a white ball around a grassy field... <br> <br> So compared to Rian Johnson's understandably maligned THE LAST JEDI, director J.J. Abrams hits it out of his own safe ballpark in a hybrid/rehash of RETURN OF THE JEDI with similarities to another Lucasfilm classic, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: in particular, a Staff of Ra type device that, maneuvered strategically against an adjoined-perspective-backdrop, can pinpoint another, more important device (i.e. McGuffin) that will locate a lost Sith planet, where a resurrected Emperor Palpatine has poised more Star Destroyers than we've seen in all three trilogies combined...<br>

action, adam driver, adventure, billy dee williams, carrie fisher, daisy ridley, fantasy, harrison ford, mark hamill, oscar issac, science-fiction, star wars

FINAL SKYWALKER SAGA 'STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER'

Retro artwork for Star Wars THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Year: 2019 There's a popular term in internet circles for THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, c...

FLY CASUAL W/ 'STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI' AKA 'STAR WARS VII'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim3f22A3HU061rMd0WlgEB9sO_BsYakg4Mmtb_Gcuyt80kMjXShqjLxhpGWoW0Q2_36-nwzivzfzJlh0wF8BnFzGjRMQrDidY42593X25cVdaBwK_PjEcBrlhItO5-TlB5xB4Tr7pHGYU7/s1600/25299972_408534939575688_8594711449107748584_o.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim3f22A3HU061rMd0WlgEB9sO_BsYakg4Mmtb_Gcuyt80kMjXShqjLxhpGWoW0Q2_36-nwzivzfzJlh0wF8BnFzGjRMQrDidY42593X25cVdaBwK_PjEcBrlhItO5-TlB5xB4Tr7pHGYU7/s1600/25299972_408534939575688_8594711449107748584_o.jpg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Why not make use of the little big cards given out for fanatics who bought the earliest tickets available YEAR: 2017</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Since J.J. Abrams' THE FORCE AWAKENS (albeit criticized for being too unoriginal) introduced a band of endearing, worthwhile characters, writer/director Rian Johnson obviously knew he had to make the second new STAR WARS get right down to business and, although the first fifteen minutes halts more than flows, there's a point where things open up nicely...<br>

2017, adam driver, carrie fisher, daisy ridley, fantasy, franchise, jj abrams, mark hamill, new, oscar issac, rian johnson, science-fiction, sequel, star wars

FLY CASUAL W/ 'STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI' AKA 'STAR WARS VII'

Why not make use of the little big cards given out for fanatics who bought the earliest tickets available YEAR: 2017 Since J.J. Abrams...

GEORGE CLOONEY DIRECTS MATT DAMON IN SUBURBICON

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPzPJ_e3AOx6AycPp6epRFmlT1L9a67J2PFdvAv9fiThxwmz3oFDb77qk-bVLZl6TY2T-5K161ooOC9bBTrRTd59Is7lwctGyCfNuo64YxPiSCRRSI-4sCSNgXJ5vsVl84KfaqzPm4Z1eS/s1600/Suburbicon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="551" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPzPJ_e3AOx6AycPp6epRFmlT1L9a67J2PFdvAv9fiThxwmz3oFDb77qk-bVLZl6TY2T-5K161ooOC9bBTrRTd59Is7lwctGyCfNuo64YxPiSCRRSI-4sCSNgXJ5vsVl84KfaqzPm4Z1eS/s400/Suburbicon.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>YEAR OF RELEASE: 2017</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> It may have seemed logical before, but now there's genuine proof that a Coen Brothers movie has to be both written <i>and directed</i> by Joel and Ethan so that the dark comedy seems genuine, palpable, and not one bit contrived...<br> <div> <br></div> <div> But their own personal Cary Grant in George Clooney, the star of a few less inspired installments after the bro's last true classic, THE BIG LEBOWSKI, has, as director and co-writer, made his very own "Coen Brothers" experience taking place in a 1950's Suburban community called, simply enough, SUBURBICON, a misleading paradise with postcard-perfect houses and manicured lawns belonging to one-dimensional neighbors, all of them white... Save for the black family that just moved in... a husband, wife and child suffering through chanting protests right outside their living room window, and for absolutely zero reason plot-wise except to further prove how hypnotically racist, soulless and Stepford-like Caucasians were back then (as if we hadn't learned by now, again and again and again)...<br> <div> </div></div>

2017, coen brothers, crime, fifties-era, george clooney, julianne moore, matt damon, neo noir, new, oscar issac

GEORGE CLOONEY DIRECTS MATT DAMON IN SUBURBICON

YEAR OF RELEASE: 2017 It may have seemed logical before, but now there's genuine proof that a Coen Brothers movie has to be both wri...

CRITERION DELVES INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv0M2c4Iih-U3Nn8DQEqtKXEK9hyRtUef2GrleQdH9Nz8sJBPXlnO9DBAgGrccx3bptGKlBGj2TS9Csea_u-tVxPkQ6KTRzdg1mGFR4Q17-FvWqEvoqMU0N0QMQzEhTqD6hI0RdMs4dZg/s1600/794_DVD_box_348x490_original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv0M2c4Iih-U3Nn8DQEqtKXEK9hyRtUef2GrleQdH9Nz8sJBPXlnO9DBAgGrccx3bptGKlBGj2TS9Csea_u-tVxPkQ6KTRzdg1mGFR4Q17-FvWqEvoqMU0N0QMQzEhTqD6hI0RdMs4dZg/s640/794_DVD_box_348x490_original.jpg" width="452"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover to the Criterion Edition of INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS</td></tr> </tbody></table> Popular movie blogs that get much more hits than the wordy, passionate Cult Film Freak will merely promote particular covers of genre Blu Rays, DVDs, and even VHS covers, and while The Coen's comeback (at least to some of us who have been dying since THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE) titled <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/12/inside-llewyn-davis.html">INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS</a>, taking place in 1961, before Bob Dylan both made and broke the Folk genre in New York's Greenwich Village, centering on the most flawed of flawed anti-heroes in Oscar Issac's stubborn and selfish folk singer who, as we begin with him crashed hungover at a friend's house, which he winds up doing anywhere and everywhere, after an egg breakfast sleepily walks out the door when the family cat scrams outside along with him, wherein a desperate Lewis quickly grabs the feline in the outside hallway and, since the front door is locked, the orange tabby and the title character takes off to the Village via subway car, where our lonely misadventure begins. Actually the movie starts with what might have been the night before with Issac playing a lovely standard before getting punched-out, outside in the club's alleyway, for a mysterious reason learned later on. And the man of the hour, Oscar Issac, an actor who has yet to make it as big as he deserves, sings and plays guitar himself; he's the real deal, very rare and adding something incredible and palpable to a movie that came and went in the box office. But Cult Film Freak first bought a cheap DVD, then a slightly pricey Blu Ray, with the same boring cover. And, as happens with Criterion, they emerge outta nowhere with an incredible cover, and this one is, amongst a long list of incredible artwork from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/11/love-streams.html">LOVE STREAMS </a>to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/12/in-cold-capote.html">IN COLD BLOOD</a> (purchased after the original standard yet cool blu ray cover got signed by Scott Wilson) to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2011/04/repo-man.html">REPO MAN</a> to our tribute to David Bowie in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/01/bowie-MCML.html">MERRY CHRISTMAS MR LAWRENCE</a>... by far, in this reviewer/collector's opinion, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2014/11/pop-culture-2.html">INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS</a> is the very best of the eclectic series. In the movie itself, two future (and now, present) <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/01/jedi-rambles.html">STAR WARS FORCE AWAKENS</a> actors appear in the film. The new X-Wing Ace, filling the boots of Wedge Antilles, is the star of DAVIS while the new galactic villain, Adam Driver, plays a low-voiced singer named Al Cody, equally a failure in the folk music business, and in one great scene, so very Coen Brothers in their usually silent-hilarious fashion, has Llewyn crashing at Driver's pad, carrying a box of left-over albums... There's no room to place the box under a table where there's another box, which happens to be full of Al Cody's non-sold misfire LP's of his own.<br>

adam driver, coen brothers, oscar issac, tribute

CRITERION DELVES INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS

Cover to the Criterion Edition of INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Popular movie blogs that get much more hits than the wordy, passionate Cult Film F...

REVIEW OF EX MACHINA

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJYtZMvuH9fotHT-nOTrBi-MnOyFLhbasODT7RcAgKzK5SMbayalVSQj8JeMs8fnr5buxESlYgM3_LDY4XmGJdhkUZf1tcNLr_JEPtWBYxIQCs7tcYww0H7-9nbUBynf8p8fgFm8FiyfU/s1600/Picture+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJYtZMvuH9fotHT-nOTrBi-MnOyFLhbasODT7RcAgKzK5SMbayalVSQj8JeMs8fnr5buxESlYgM3_LDY4XmGJdhkUZf1tcNLr_JEPtWBYxIQCs7tcYww0H7-9nbUBynf8p8fgFm8FiyfU/s1600/Picture+1.png" width="212" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2015 rating: **</td></tr> </tbody></table> At one point, as we move slowly towards a conclusion, Oscar Issac, playing tech genius entrepreneur Nathan, tells his special guest how time flies. And in this particular case, time flies coach. <br /> <br /> Although EX MACHINA, mirroring science-fiction cult cinema ranging from 2001 to BLADE RUNNER, is first class in structure, aesthetics, and characterization: too bad we don’t get to know the humans as well as the Artificial Intelligence – that being Alicia Vikander’s beautiful Ava… <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid8UkDwK-zrqt6vYgpMbScQ66mIK2LBNhzknHbSlV2mjz42FyfyQcWm5mvWbweO9zC692dHWwfeiedMUWslSPvszZfcHmuNw1f6OL-62HdzVRwT2zhJp0FBDAKCZ33Cf0uvq_ZPx75JRU/s1600/ex-machina-poster-2.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid8UkDwK-zrqt6vYgpMbScQ66mIK2LBNhzknHbSlV2mjz42FyfyQcWm5mvWbweO9zC692dHWwfeiedMUWslSPvszZfcHmuNw1f6OL-62HdzVRwT2zhJp0FBDAKCZ33Cf0uvq_ZPx75JRU/s320/ex-machina-poster-2.jpeg" width="184" /></a></div> With a soft, passive countenance, she manipulatively seduces her creator’s employee, Domhnall Gleeson’s Caleb, who isn’t quite sure what his job is, exactly. Called upon to a rural wilderness outpost to test his boss’s new “robot,” he spends most of the time in cerebral conversations with either Nathan or Ava: One likes to drink, spout pop culture references and avoids the point at hand while the other seeks freedom from the glorified FRANKENSTEIN mansion.  <br /> <br /> Issac wields a snarky, roguish charm that will hopefully serve him (and us) in the upcoming STAR WARS 7: THE FORCE AWAKENS – a blunt manner balancing the vulnerability of that highly anticipated film’s other young star, Gleeson. But in MACHINA, we hardly focus past all the expository wallpaper: A real shame since there's the right kind of “genuine sci-fi” elements, from an ominous soundtrack to dialogue that goes way over your head, and then some.

2015, domhnall gleeson, oscar issac, science-fiction

REVIEW OF EX MACHINA

year: 2015 rating: ** At one point, as we move slowly towards a conclusion, Oscar Issac, playing tech genius entrepreneur Nathan, tells ...

REVIEW OF A MOST VIOLENT YEAR

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRe-H3aXKmBeDhRQe69OCur2FFZ5ZkK6cJVVxSsYHXPP9tqDVNcPmfbxv_bSUujE5m6rXihJfnCiu_KSG7R4yYOr5BghJqXYCsx7Acxct0zk1bmWr_8lSDwk1qEcPOMTKF5JvG-FIYtxg/s1600/most_violent_year.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRe-H3aXKmBeDhRQe69OCur2FFZ5ZkK6cJVVxSsYHXPP9tqDVNcPmfbxv_bSUujE5m6rXihJfnCiu_KSG7R4yYOr5BghJqXYCsx7Acxct0zk1bmWr_8lSDwk1qEcPOMTKF5JvG-FIYtxg/s200/most_violent_year.jpg" width="125" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2015 rating: **1/2</td></tr> </tbody></table> A famous line in the infamously dull GODFATHER PART III had Al Pacino shouting that no matter how he tries to get out, they keep pulling him back in… The opposite occurs in A MOST VIOLENT YEAR where real criminals are shoving a relatively honest bootlegger, with one week to purchase an important piece of land, out of business… <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> From his trucks being robbed to armed goons breaking into his mansion, Oscar Isaac’s Abel Morales is a man with a master plan who won’t let anything get in his way...<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Ocz5uoMUpjG7n2M3pPlnMww0Eh1Bh8Y9U7osZbuFeZnybR4v_AFRlutN0YFvYHzq7pABeJfKh-j1DQrQWKOMbeBfZEI2H4SSjEhzCTciOrYZ_tkd8PXCtsEawD8CVAgdR27L26f1zN0/s1600/photo7_10388.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Ocz5uoMUpjG7n2M3pPlnMww0Eh1Bh8Y9U7osZbuFeZnybR4v_AFRlutN0YFvYHzq7pABeJfKh-j1DQrQWKOMbeBfZEI2H4SSjEhzCTciOrYZ_tkd8PXCtsEawD8CVAgdR27L26f1zN0/s200/photo7_10388.jpeg" width="135" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; text-align: center;">Oscar Isaac</td></tr> </tbody></table> With a solid helmet of dark slightly-graying hair, piercing eyes and an overall steely countenance, Issac has all the makings of an old school gangster the likes of Pacino, Robert DeNiro and the guy he somewhat resembles a leading man version of, Chazz Palminteri. Unfortunately the film, a two-hour collection of backroom meetings, conversations and confrontations, makes this potentially solid character less relevant and meaningful to the mob genre than even Andy Garcia in… the aforementioned disappointment.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> Like any subtle crime melodrama that spends more time ticking than exploding, providing businesslike realism over pulpy gun play, the suspense is based on each word spoken: And Abel stands behind everything he says – in an otherwise good performance despite the limitations. Meanwhile his wife Anna, played by Jessica Chastain, remains on the sidelines despite having her own form of wily strength and edgy wisdom. What a team they <i>could have</i> made… But nothing really comes of their actions except random reactions, and with two truck robberies, a road chase and an ass-kicking aside, if this were A MOST VIOLENT YEAR, we missed most<i> </i>of it. <b>OVERALL RANK: Jedi, Rebel, <u>Droid</u>, Sith.</b>

2015, albert brooks, jessica chastain, mob, oscar issac

REVIEW OF A MOST VIOLENT YEAR

2015 rating: **1/2 A famous line in the infamously dull GODFATHER PART III had Al Pacino shouting that no matter how he tries to get out...

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS BY JOEL AND ETHAN COEN

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSs0id962G0dOQ03fBVB_h5V83znG0b-JHdEQfrPmMLYgrveGVkcQdw4yJ1PFFLrhB9Gny6K9P3_KR4bHyanJM43LxktY4yR8rBBAIg7Ji5JOA5qXUCI96L-g__AI9ZhonqRbLkXVi0bk/s1600/inside.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSs0id962G0dOQ03fBVB_h5V83znG0b-JHdEQfrPmMLYgrveGVkcQdw4yJ1PFFLrhB9Gny6K9P3_KR4bHyanJM43LxktY4yR8rBBAIg7Ji5JOA5qXUCI96L-g__AI9ZhonqRbLkXVi0bk/s320/inside.jpg" width="206" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2013 rating: ****</td></tr> </tbody></table> Having reached the end of your rope, at least there’s not enough left for a noose… This could be the theme of the Coen Brother’s latest, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, about an unlucky early-1960's folk singer whose career isn’t exactly panning out...<br /> <br /> The film begins with Llewyn waking up at someone else’s pad. As he exits the apartment, the owner’s orange tabby escapes and the day goes progressively downhill… <br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAsV_GNbUUjrJEqiWKZXBwRli6HwFyZcMDZuAcBf0Irq0_KlpYka9mXa6Ta5uAgtj4GMyZBtKnxOyq543ODPuAZTC2cmAsAdNvIRTPk1HI5zFpljCOEJxXSAiF-MYu-aHTgaI7ZrytSzs/s1600/Picture+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAsV_GNbUUjrJEqiWKZXBwRli6HwFyZcMDZuAcBf0Irq0_KlpYka9mXa6Ta5uAgtj4GMyZBtKnxOyq543ODPuAZTC2cmAsAdNvIRTPk1HI5zFpljCOEJxXSAiF-MYu-aHTgaI7ZrytSzs/s1600/Picture+1.png" width="195" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Davis with Tabby</td></tr> </tbody></table> Like a grungy coin rolled down the street, a hapless, bearded Davis visits the places and people making up (and shaking up) his dreary life: From the local tavern where he performs to a very special girl he accidentally knocked up, we exist through the eyes of a title character who isn’t particularly nice... In that, the Coens have created a new sort of unapologetic, selfish anti-hero. Thus the best moments involve Davis’s smug reactions to the world around him, surpassing the pivotal Kerouacian road trip with a motor-mouthed John Goodman, providing more of a break than a purpose.<br /> <br /> Throughout this punctuating turmoil, set mostly in the cold New York/Greenwich Village wintertime, the one thing Llewyn can do is sing… Having lost his duo partner, he’s an un-discoverable solo act although his music, delivered beautifully by Oscar Issac himself, is heartfelt and world-weary, especially compared to an intentionally campy tune that will stick in your head longer than the good stuff. Perhaps this is intentional. If INSIDE has one purpose it’s to show a character with genuine talent, much too personal and private for the mainstream – an isolated curse befitting both the man and his music.

2013, coen brothers, john goodman, music, oscar issac, quirky

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS BY JOEL AND ETHAN COEN

year: 2013 rating: **** Having reached the end of your rope, at least there’s not enough left for a noose… This could be the theme of th...