Thinking Out Loud

Tag: Steve Buscemi

  • The Time Has Come to Act: Stanley Tucci’s The Impostors

    The Time Has Come to Act: Stanley Tucci’s The Impostors

    I’m not blind to its shortcomings, but The Impostors is one of my most favorite movie comfort foods. That I find it so funny and purely enjoyable is really saying something, considering its milieu is the joblessness, desperation, and looming international conflict of The Great Depression. The pitch: a loving homage to old-school Hollywood screwball […]

  • The Dude burns one on the way over in The Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski

    The Dude burns one on the way over in The Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski

    In 1998, when all the world wanted from Joel Coen and Ethan Coen was another Fargo, they got The Big Lebowski instead. The Coen Brothers recently repeated this trick by following up another masterpiece, No Country for Old Men, with the happy-go-lucky Burn After Reading. This blog wonders if this compulsion is by design or […]