Inside Llewyn Davis is a black comedy drama that takes us back to the 1960s, to the heart of the folk music scene in New York City's Greenwich Village. The film is a poignant exploration of the life ...
The Coen Brothers have no shame in gut-punching audiences with sharp dismantling of characters or rude short-changing of narrative expectations, in ways that feel like a cinematic middle finger. While ...
Llewyn Davis is a jerk. One of many folk musicians working the cafes and basement bars of Greenwich Village in 1961, Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) is undoubtedly a talented artist. But he’s also a walking ...
The Coen brothers have a wry twinkle in their eyes as they take us on a lyrical journey with a hugely likeable musician for whom success is only barely out of reach. It's also an engaging exploration ...
Nick is a writer who works and lives in Los Angeles, California. He has previously written for Indiewire, The Playlist, and Little White Lies. While Joel and Ethan Coen have dabbled, both collectively ...
Welcome back to another issue of Your Movie Mage, where I discuss underrated movies across genres. Last week, we discussed the highly underrated film adaptation of the popular book, “Where the Wild ...
“Inside Llewyn Davis” may not have been the most well-received Coen Brothers film in the Academy’s eyes, but it had everything fans and critics of their work love most: a great soundtrack, a series of ...
One of the people mistreated by Llewyn Davis (right), played Oscar Isaac, in "Inside Llewyn Davis" is Jean, played by Carey Mulligan. What happens when that moment arrives in an artist's life when it ...
Discover What’s Streaming On: This includes spoilers for the film Inside Llewyn Davis, a movie that its co-writer and director Joel Coen once said “doesn’t really have a plot” so don’t worry too much ...
“Inside Llewyn Davis” is an extraordinary portrait of a fictional folk singer in Greenwich Village of the ’60s whose hopeless problem is this: He’s not Bob Dylan, nor could he ever be. It’s the era of ...
Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is never more at home than when he’s onstage singing a folk song, leaning into his guitar and seducing the crowd. It doesn’t particularly matter to him that the crowd could ...