We return to Delco to ponder whether We Are Back, as far as Sunday Night appointment viewing on HBO is concerned

Tim Meadow for President, d*** it.

No one expects Dan Shea to return to Frame Work!  One of his chief weapons is surprise, surprise and fear, surprise and fear and an almost fanatical devotion to examining the filmography of Terry Gilliam...

Things get messy when Noah Hawley adapts ALIEN while getting more excited about PETER PAN, and accidentally getting sidetracked into WESTWORLD.

We talk about people biting James Cameron's style...which basically means a Michael Bay episode.  With enough BATTLESHIP to shake a stick at. You know, for kids!

We continue looking at the people and projects that have offered our auteurs the most sincere flattery.  What makes a movie "Nolanesque"?  Does he have an heir apparanent, and why did that not become Duncan Jones?  Let's find out...

We finally reach the (fairly abrupt) end of INQUISITION, and the extensive DLC expansions.

We continue to examine the influence and imitations of our anointed directors' signature styles.  In Fincher's case, this mainly takes the form of reviewing the attempts of his various collaborators to recreate the magic without him.  ...

In which we offer very tepid defenses of Ethan Coen's tepid new lesbian detective yarn

Chris Prentice drops in to talk about the cottage industry of Tarantino knock-offs that arose in the 1990s (and beyond).  Why do they have long, tortured titles full of numbers and locations?  Why do they all end on the same boat? The...

Brett Blake returns to dig into Zach Cregger's ambitious sophomore effort.

In which oh my god this game never ends

Is the fifth time the charm for the famous foursome?

In which we finally, definitively fix all the Academy's mistakes.

Alex Fletcher returns to talk over James Gunn's re-re-re-envisioning of the grandaddy of superheroes

Because in the end, maybe the real way was the brothers we made along the Coen.

Hinterlands Ahoy!

What is the difference between Best Picture and Best Director?  No, I mean, obviously WE know.  I was asking you.

We have a look through the not-quite-official Coen Brother films, from SUBURBICON and BRIDGE OF SPIES to DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS and THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH.

The Pope has been exploded by demons!  Are you a bad enough dude to collect 250 Spindleweed?

After several movies with increasingly loose plot structures, the Coens say "f*** it, we're just doing an anthology".  And it kind of rules.

The MCU is back, bay-bee!  Sorta!  

Will there be any more Star Wars like this?  Probably not, but that just makes it shine all the brighter

In which we talk about the limits of Danny McBride's satirical ambitions, and how grounded one can make a star war

Also, Syril is a super-spy and Kleya turns a screw