McDormand and Coen met when she auditioned for his first feature film Blood Simple back in 1983. McDormand read for the leading role of Abby, but after the first go, she told Coen that she would not ...

In the never-ending quest for cinematic gems hidden in the weekly TV listings, here's what I'll be watching (or at least recording) this week: Frances McDormand, in a scene from the 1984 Coen brothers ...

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 ...

The post Frances McDormand’s 10 Best Roles appeared first on Consequence. In this pivotal film, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress, McDormand jumps both hands and feet first into Joel and ...

When M. Emmet Walsh passed away in March, we lost one of a dying breed of character actors—always earthy, sometimes feral, like he’d slipped off a barstool somewhere and just stepped in front of the ...

Filmmakers have long been drawn to “the Texan” as a character type. Our series Playing Texan revisits some of the most notable of these portrayals, from the legendary to the ludicrous, to determine ...