Frame Work

Send us Fan Mail We talk about what it means to be a Carpenter Movie, and why his most imitated film is not the one that best represents his style.

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

Send us Fan Mail Tim Meadow for President, d*** it.

Send us Fan Mail 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...

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

Send us Fan Mail 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!

Send us Fan Mail 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!

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

Send us Fan Mail 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.  

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

Send us Fan Mail 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? These questions and more will be answered in digressive, non-linear fashion on this week's Frame Work.

Send us Fan Mail Brett Blake returns to dig into Zach Cregger's ambitious sophomore effort.

Send us Fan Mail In which oh my god this game never ends

Send us Fan Mail Is the fifth time the charm for the famous foursome?

Send us Fan Mail In which we finally, definitively fix all the Academy's mistakes.

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

Send us Fan Mail Because in the end, maybe the real way was the brothers we made along the Coen.

Send us Fan Mail Hinterlands Ahoy!

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

Send us Fan Mail 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.

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

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

Send us Fan Mail The MCU is back, bay-bee!  Sorta!  

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

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