Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and movie features writer. He is also an independent filmmaker and member of the Screen Actors Guild based out of Los Angeles. Zach grew up watching ...

Blood Simple is a gloriously clean, well-constructed darkly comic noir that rides the border between pure satire and utter nihilism. Forty years after its release in January of 1985, the first Coen ...

Few writer-director duos have left a bigger and bolder impact on American cinema than the Coen brothers. Their debut, Blood Simple (1984), propelled them to prominence, and ever since, they have given ...