'Hail, Caesar!', which came out five years ago this month, feels an awful lot like it was assembled from 8 or 10 ideas the Coen brothers had been kicking about for the bulk of their careers.
The film will be a collection of stories told by a bunch of outlandish émigrés who ended up in a made-up French metropolis to tell the most peculiar stories for the New Yorker-inspired magazine.
'Moonrise Kingdom', which arrived 10 years ago this week, is arguably Wes Anderson's most underrated and different film amongst his storied pantheon of movies. Charming, low-stakes, and very funny.
The film managed to perfectly straddle the line between the realistic and the cinematic while capturing the true essence of a life on the road, and in turn, the American spirit.
With the 2020 "Oscar season" looking very different, there's a whole 60-day period in which movies with serious ambitions are coming out every day. Here's some of the notable ones.
Hollywood doesn't come out with many literary comedies anymore, or films that center around the extracurricular adventures of middle-aged professors, but it did both back in February of 2000 with 'Wonder Boys.' A film criminally overlooked by moviegoers.
25 years ago, 'Fargo' was released in theaters; it's the best Coen brothers movie, the best Minnesota movie and, in my opinion, the best American film of the 1990s.