With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
Science-fiction films don’t get much more immersive than Cloverfield, Matt Reeves‘ thrilling feature debut, putting us directly into the shoes of an alien invasion. One of the rare cases in which intriguing, tight-lipped marketing actually delivered on its promise, this sci-fi found-footage thriller has memorable setpieces at every turn, complete with a sense of genuine panic, a feeling that other post-9/11 films often render as exploitative.
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
Science-fiction films don’t get much more immersive than Cloverfield, Matt Reeves‘ thrilling feature debut, putting us directly into the shoes of an alien invasion. One of the rare cases in which intriguing, tight-lipped marketing actually delivered on its promise, this sci-fi found-footage thriller has memorable setpieces at every turn, complete with a sense of genuine panic, a feeling that other post-9/11 films often render as exploitative.
- 8/5/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
As we began talking about editorial content we could publish to celebrate the release of Hail, Caesar!, the latest film from Joel and Ethan Coen, we realized that none of us had the same top five lists, and that it seems unusual for that to be the case. The Coens have had such a rich and varied career that it is impossible to pin them down to one style or one theme or one type of storytelling. Some people love their comedies. Some people love it when they get dark. Some people love the underdogs, the least-liked of their films. But what's clear is that every film they've made has its fans, and even their worst films are beloved by someone. There are few artists like the Coen Brothers, and we were delighted to get lists from each of our special guest contributors this time. The diversity of the replies...
- 2/4/2016
- by HitFix Staff
- Hitfix
"I don't see a lot of money here." With these simple words — oh, the tiny scornful emphasis on the word "money"! — unimpressed impresario Bud Grossman (F. Murray Abraham), after a beat of immaculate unreadability, casually snuffs out the already sputtering flame of Llewyn Davis' musical ambitions. Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) has a shoe full of slush, a married lover about to abort her child on the off-chance it might be his, and a date with a beating in an alleyway. And on his way to meet it, he will hit and probably kill a cat that may or may not be the same one he abandoned earlier. If the nameless animal's fate, and its identity, will forever exist in a state of uncertainty (let's just call this second cat Schroedinger and be done with it), from this point in the movie, there is no such uncertainty about Llewyn's trajectory. He is never going to make it.
- 1/26/2016
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Anyone who’s ever had their musical ambitions crushed by the ever oppressive forces of real life will find a great sense of empathy within Joel and Ethan Coen‘s great reimagination of the Greenwich Village folk scene, Inside Llewyn Davis. Essentially a dour depiction of the limitations of artistic ambition and musical performance as a viable career, as well as a remarkable portrait of the Village on the cusp being redefined by the arrival of Bob Dylan and the commercialism of the genre, the film stands as a unique companion piece to Don’t Look Back and I’m Not There that pays tribute to what came before with the rye eye of the Coens.
As music producer T Bone Burnett has said, the Coen brothers might be the luckiest filmmakers in the universe, having somehow managed to find both a fantastic actor and a fine musician encapsulated within...
As music producer T Bone Burnett has said, the Coen brothers might be the luckiest filmmakers in the universe, having somehow managed to find both a fantastic actor and a fine musician encapsulated within...
- 1/19/2016
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
To mark the release of Inside Llewyn Davis on 26th May, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray.
Inside Llewyn Davis follows a week in the life of a young musician, guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, as he attempts to navigate the GreenwichVillage scene of 1961.
Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is struggling to make it, against seemingly insurmountable odds – some of them his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends (Justin Timberlake; Carey Mulligan) and strangers, he drifts along, penniless, taking any work he can get as his dream of becoming a successful singer seems to be slipping away. Determined not to give up, he embarks on a mission to audition for music mogul Bud Grossman, his last hope to make his dreams of becoming a successful musician a reality.
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only
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Inside Llewyn Davis follows a week in the life of a young musician, guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, as he attempts to navigate the GreenwichVillage scene of 1961.
Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is struggling to make it, against seemingly insurmountable odds – some of them his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends (Justin Timberlake; Carey Mulligan) and strangers, he drifts along, penniless, taking any work he can get as his dream of becoming a successful singer seems to be slipping away. Determined not to give up, he embarks on a mission to audition for music mogul Bud Grossman, his last hope to make his dreams of becoming a successful musician a reality.
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only
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- 5/19/2014
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
We're delighted that Leonardo DiCaprio got nominated. And Her. And Philomena's Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope. We actually agreed with a vast number of Oscar noms this year. However, there were some films and actors who we felt didn't get the recognition they deserved, so we decided to honour them in a different form.
Below are Digital Spy's Alternative Oscar Awards, celebrating this year's greatest who missed out on a nomination. Read on to find out the nominees and who we crowned the best of the rest.
Best Picture
Before Midnight
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Blue Jasmine
Frozen
Inside Llewyn Davis
Much Ado About Nothing
The Place Beyond the Pines
Prisoners
Rush
Saving Mr Banks
And the Alternative Oscar goes to... Inside Llewyn Davis
"I don't see a lot of money here," music manager Budd Grossman (F Murray Abraham) flatly tells struggling folk singer Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac...
Below are Digital Spy's Alternative Oscar Awards, celebrating this year's greatest who missed out on a nomination. Read on to find out the nominees and who we crowned the best of the rest.
Best Picture
Before Midnight
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Blue Jasmine
Frozen
Inside Llewyn Davis
Much Ado About Nothing
The Place Beyond the Pines
Prisoners
Rush
Saving Mr Banks
And the Alternative Oscar goes to... Inside Llewyn Davis
"I don't see a lot of money here," music manager Budd Grossman (F Murray Abraham) flatly tells struggling folk singer Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac...
- 3/1/2014
- Digital Spy
The 2013 RopeofSilicon Movie Awards I was hesitant to actually do a sixth year of the RopeofSilicon Awards for a variety of reasons, but most of all due to the deluge of awards handed out for movies at this point in our culture. As it turns out, I'm glad I waited and I'm glad I decided to go forward with the Awards. As we've moved into 2014 it became clear there were not only films and performances from 2013 that were still resonating with audiences, but there were some that hadn't gotten the attention I felt they deserved. Therefore, these awards afforded me the opportunity to highlight some of those films and performances. Looking back, 2013 was something of a strange year for movies. It was a year dominated by big budget features, but while many of those blockbusters made lots of money, they fell quite flat in terms of overall audience reception. Films...
- 1/29/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
"Explain the cat," Carey Mulligan's prickly Jean demands of Llewyn (Oscar Isaac), early on in the Coen brothers' blackly comic but heartfelt Inside Llewyn Davis. He never quite does. Ever since the film's Cannes debut last year, critics have been discussing the significance of the insta-iconic ginger moggy, which struggling folk singer Llewyn gets lumbered with in a moment of pure farce.
After spending the night on a friend's sofa, the down-and-out Llewyn accidentally locks himself out along with their cat, whose name we later discover is Ulysses. He then spends a good portion of the film trying to return it to its owners (a middle-class couple called the Gorfeins), and in the process Ulysses goes from an adorable prop to something more like a talisman.
Note: The following contains spoilers for Inside Llewyn Davis.
"The film doesn't really have a plot. That concerned us at one point -...
After spending the night on a friend's sofa, the down-and-out Llewyn accidentally locks himself out along with their cat, whose name we later discover is Ulysses. He then spends a good portion of the film trying to return it to its owners (a middle-class couple called the Gorfeins), and in the process Ulysses goes from an adorable prop to something more like a talisman.
Note: The following contains spoilers for Inside Llewyn Davis.
"The film doesn't really have a plot. That concerned us at one point -...
- 1/28/2014
- Digital Spy
The Coens' tale of a of a once feted folk singer on the slide has brilliant elements that don't quite make a satisfying whole
"How does it feel, to be on your own… Like a complete unknown… ?" Llewyn Davis knows exactly how that feels. Dragging his self-pitying butt around the freezing backstreets of early 1960s Greenwich Village, he is indeed "without a home", a formerly feted singer who made his name as one half of a popular duo until his partner threw himself to an early death, a result, perhaps, of spending too much time with Llewyn. He's an arsehole and everyone tells him so – from fellow folk singer Jean (Carey Mulligan), who is pregnant with his child and wants money for an abortion, to John Goodman's aggressive jazz fiend who callously mocks Davis's former partner's suicide ("You throw yourself of the Brooklyn bridge, traditionally. George Washington bridge? Who does that?...
"How does it feel, to be on your own… Like a complete unknown… ?" Llewyn Davis knows exactly how that feels. Dragging his self-pitying butt around the freezing backstreets of early 1960s Greenwich Village, he is indeed "without a home", a formerly feted singer who made his name as one half of a popular duo until his partner threw himself to an early death, a result, perhaps, of spending too much time with Llewyn. He's an arsehole and everyone tells him so – from fellow folk singer Jean (Carey Mulligan), who is pregnant with his child and wants money for an abortion, to John Goodman's aggressive jazz fiend who callously mocks Davis's former partner's suicide ("You throw yourself of the Brooklyn bridge, traditionally. George Washington bridge? Who does that?...
- 1/26/2014
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Feature Ivan Radford 23 Jan 2014 - 06:21
Ivan's latest column explores what music can tell us about a character through two new UK soundtrack releases
Music is a powerful thing. It can be used to express authority or portray identity. The very act of playing music defines us, as both performers or listeners. That relationship we have with it makes for two extremely powerful soundtracks currently accompanying movies in UK cinemas: Inside Llewyn Davis and 12 Years a Slave.
Inside Llewyn Davis
"Play me something from Inside Llewyn Davis," manager Bud Grossman (F. Murray Abraham) challenges Oscar Isaac's lead in the middle of the Coen brothers' film. Llewyn responds with The Death of Queen Jane, an old ballad from the 1500s that recounts the tale of King Henry losing his wife, Jane Seymour, to gain a son. It's not a happy song.
It's also a clear statement from Llewyn: he's not afraid of sadness.
Ivan's latest column explores what music can tell us about a character through two new UK soundtrack releases
Music is a powerful thing. It can be used to express authority or portray identity. The very act of playing music defines us, as both performers or listeners. That relationship we have with it makes for two extremely powerful soundtracks currently accompanying movies in UK cinemas: Inside Llewyn Davis and 12 Years a Slave.
Inside Llewyn Davis
"Play me something from Inside Llewyn Davis," manager Bud Grossman (F. Murray Abraham) challenges Oscar Isaac's lead in the middle of the Coen brothers' film. Llewyn responds with The Death of Queen Jane, an old ballad from the 1500s that recounts the tale of King Henry losing his wife, Jane Seymour, to gain a son. It's not a happy song.
It's also a clear statement from Llewyn: he's not afraid of sadness.
- 1/22/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
In this series, Vulture has been speaking to the screenwriters behind 2013's most acclaimed movies about the scenes they found most difficult to crack. What pivotal sequences underwent the biggest transformations on their way from script to screen? Today, writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen discuss a scene midway through their new movie, Inside Llewyn Davis, where unlucky-but-talented folk singer Llewyn (played by Oscar Isaac and loosely based on the real-life crooner Dave Van Ronk) finally gets his chance to audition for the important music manager Bud Grossman. Ethan Coen: I'll tell you the truth. We wrote this script not only quicker than we usually do most of them, but maybe even quicker than we've done any of them. I don't know why.Joel Coen: There's not a lot of plot. In the middle of it, we thought, "Okay, we're writing something that doesn't have the usual engine in...
- 12/24/2013
- by Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
Oscar-winner, F. Murray Abraham (.Amadeus.), is fantastic in the new Coen Brothers movie .Inside Llewyn Davis.. He plays a small part as a producer but he.s a catalyst of the narrative when he rejects Llewyn Davis. (Oscar Isaac) audition. In this interview, we talked about:
*** What got him interested in joining the movie?
*** Working with Ethan Coen on stage
*** How the Coen Brothers helped shape his character, Bud Grossman
*** His character of Bud Grossman
*** The audition process
*** The character of Llewyn Davis
*** Life is cyclical
And he gave love to my home country, the Philippines!
*** What got him interested in joining the movie?
*** Working with Ethan Coen on stage
*** How the Coen Brothers helped shape his character, Bud Grossman
*** His character of Bud Grossman
*** The audition process
*** The character of Llewyn Davis
*** Life is cyclical
And he gave love to my home country, the Philippines!
- 12/17/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Editor’s note: Our review of Inside Llewyn Davis originally ran during this year’s Cannes Film Festival, but we’re re-running it now as the film opens today in limited theatrical release. The eighth In Competition banner for the Coen Brothers at the Cannes Film Festival is their first in six years, since their eventual Best Picture Oscar winner No Country for Old Men. Though there isn’t a chance for the intrepid filmmaking duo to repeat the same success here, the feeling coming out of Inside Llewyn Davis is that the brothers would not have it any other way. Indeed, while terming their latest work the worst thing they’ve put out since The Ladykillers might send alarm bells ringing, when you consider their body of work since – No Country, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man and True Grit – it begins to seem not quite so bitter a pill to swallow. Tackling...
- 12/6/2013
- by Shaun Munro
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
This week on At the Movies, Peter Travers highlights Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen Brothers' love letter to 1960s Greenwich Village and one of our fearless critic's top picks for 2013. The film follows a down-on-his-luck folk singer (Oscar Isaac) navigating the New York City coffeehouse scene in 1961. But unlike Dave Van Ronk or Bob Dylan,Davis' story is not one of success. "Anybody can make a movie about a winner," the Coens recently told Travers. "Why not make one about a loser?"
See What's Real in Inside Llewyn Davis
Despite his immense talents,...
See What's Real in Inside Llewyn Davis
Despite his immense talents,...
- 12/5/2013
- Rollingstone.com
Thanks to the talent of their suffering singer, the directors have beautified the odyssey of another hapless hero
I do like the Coen brothers' wintry ones. Anyone who thinks composition is a purely visual matter should re-watch Fargo, which happily inverted the old film noir tradition which says kidnappings and extortion should come wrapped in expressionistic shadow. Instead, the film pitched daylight robbery against a blinding white tundra – film blanc – with particular attention paid to the way the Minnesota winter obliterates the horizon line. The characters just seemed to hanging there twixt land and sky, like Bellow's dangling man, caught between two voids, unsure which way is up. The Coens' collaborators are said to feel much the same way.
The snow that covers much of Inside Llewyn Davis is another matter again: it's the kind of old, grey city snow that car exhaust stains brown, and gets into your boots on the long trudge home.
I do like the Coen brothers' wintry ones. Anyone who thinks composition is a purely visual matter should re-watch Fargo, which happily inverted the old film noir tradition which says kidnappings and extortion should come wrapped in expressionistic shadow. Instead, the film pitched daylight robbery against a blinding white tundra – film blanc – with particular attention paid to the way the Minnesota winter obliterates the horizon line. The characters just seemed to hanging there twixt land and sky, like Bellow's dangling man, caught between two voids, unsure which way is up. The Coens' collaborators are said to feel much the same way.
The snow that covers much of Inside Llewyn Davis is another matter again: it's the kind of old, grey city snow that car exhaust stains brown, and gets into your boots on the long trudge home.
- 12/5/2013
- by Tom Shone
- The Guardian - Film News
"When you read about the scene you see this mania for authenticity," says Joel Coen, describing what enticed him and his brother Ethan into making Inside Llewyn Davis, a film about folksingers in Greenwich Village just before Bob Dylan touched down and took off. But Coen isn't really praising the folksingers' authenticity – it's their mania that fascinates him. In the very next sentence he goes on: "You have these guys like Elliott Adnopoz, the son of a neurosurgeon from Queens, calling himself Ramblin' Jack Elliott. In the film we have...
- 12/4/2013
- Rollingstone.com
There are a ton of great movies playing at Cannes 2013, but you can’t be there. We feel your pain. I specifically feel your pain because I’m not technically allowed back in the city (parking tickets), so I can’t partake in all the grandeur of The Croisette. We’re lucky to have the fantastic Shaun Munro reviewing for us from the sandy beaches (and watching a few films), but it’s still a bit sad to think that we have to experience the festival from the couchly confines of our home in a town whose name we actually know how to pronounce. To help bring the festival experience just one inch closer to reality, let’s all dive deep into the cold, Mediterranean-like sea of synopses, pics, clips and trailers for the films that are playing at Cannes 2013. It’s just like watching a highlight reel! Swimsuit optional: Inside Llewyn Davis Directed by: Ethan and...
- 5/15/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Lovelace
James Franco is in talks while Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth and Robert Patrick have all joined the cast of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's "Lovelace" at Millennium Films which begins filming today in Los Angeles.
Amanda Seyfried is set to play porn star Linda Lovelace. Franco is up for a cameo as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. Azaria will play the director of Lovelace's most famous film "Deep Throat",
Cannavale and Noth will play the film’s financiers, and Patrick will play Lovelace’s father. Peter Sarsgaard, Wes Bentley, Sharon Stone and Juno Temple also star. [Source: Deadline]
Inside Llewyn Davis
Stage veteran Jeanine Serralles ("Two Lovers," "Across the Universe") has joined the cast while "Amadeus" star F. Murray Abraham is circling the role of legendary manager Bud Grossman in Joel and Ethan Coen's folk music pic "Inside Llewyn Davis."
Set amid the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene,...
James Franco is in talks while Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth and Robert Patrick have all joined the cast of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's "Lovelace" at Millennium Films which begins filming today in Los Angeles.
Amanda Seyfried is set to play porn star Linda Lovelace. Franco is up for a cameo as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. Azaria will play the director of Lovelace's most famous film "Deep Throat",
Cannavale and Noth will play the film’s financiers, and Patrick will play Lovelace’s father. Peter Sarsgaard, Wes Bentley, Sharon Stone and Juno Temple also star. [Source: Deadline]
Inside Llewyn Davis
Stage veteran Jeanine Serralles ("Two Lovers," "Across the Universe") has joined the cast while "Amadeus" star F. Murray Abraham is circling the role of legendary manager Bud Grossman in Joel and Ethan Coen's folk music pic "Inside Llewyn Davis."
Set amid the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene,...
- 12/20/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Lovelace
James Franco is in talks while Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth and Robert Patrick have all joined the cast of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's "Lovelace" at Millennium Films which begins filming today in Los Angeles.
Amanda Seyfried is set to play porn star Linda Lovelace. Franco is up for a cameo as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. Azaria will play the director of Lovelace's most famous film "Deep Throat",
Cannavale and Noth will play the film’s financiers, and Patrick will play Lovelace’s father. Peter Sarsgaard, Wes Bentley, Sharon Stone and Juno Temple also star. [Source: Deadline]
Inside Llewyn Davis
Stage veteran Jeanine Serralles ("Two Lovers," "Across the Universe") has joined the cast while "Amadeus" star F. Murray Abraham is circling the role of legendary manager Bud Grossman in Joel and Ethan Coen's folk music pic "Inside Llewyn Davis."
Set amid the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene,...
James Franco is in talks while Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth and Robert Patrick have all joined the cast of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's "Lovelace" at Millennium Films which begins filming today in Los Angeles.
Amanda Seyfried is set to play porn star Linda Lovelace. Franco is up for a cameo as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. Azaria will play the director of Lovelace's most famous film "Deep Throat",
Cannavale and Noth will play the film’s financiers, and Patrick will play Lovelace’s father. Peter Sarsgaard, Wes Bentley, Sharon Stone and Juno Temple also star. [Source: Deadline]
Inside Llewyn Davis
Stage veteran Jeanine Serralles ("Two Lovers," "Across the Universe") has joined the cast while "Amadeus" star F. Murray Abraham is circling the role of legendary manager Bud Grossman in Joel and Ethan Coen's folk music pic "Inside Llewyn Davis."
Set amid the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene,...
- 12/20/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Has it really been over 2 1/2 months since there was news on Inside Llewyn Davis? I guess that no longer matters, as Variety reports that both F. Murray Abraham and Jeanine Serralles have either jumped on or are in talks for Joel and Ethan Coen‘s music-centered film. The former, best known for his starring role in Amadeus — and, for the six-year-old in me, Jumanji — is negotiating to play “Bud Grossman, a legendary manager.” Serralles‘ part hasn’t been detailed, but a background in theater — as well as a previous role in Across the Universe — leads me to think that a folk musician role is planned.
The film centers on the titular lead, played by Oscar Isaac, who “struggles as a folk musician during the genre’s 1960s heyday in New York City.” Also in the cast are Justin Timberlake as a folk musician, Jim; Carey Mulligan as his wife; and John Goodman,...
The film centers on the titular lead, played by Oscar Isaac, who “struggles as a folk musician during the genre’s 1960s heyday in New York City.” Also in the cast are Justin Timberlake as a folk musician, Jim; Carey Mulligan as his wife; and John Goodman,...
- 12/20/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Well, the cast for the Coen Brothers' forthcoming music world drama "Inside Llewyn Davis," has added another interesting name, with Variety reporting that stage actress Jeanine Serralles has joined the production. The actress previously had parts in James Gray's wildly underrated "Two Lovers" and Julie Taymor's jaw-dropping (in a bad way) "Across the Universe." She joins a cast that already includes Coen film regular John Goodman, Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan, in the period film about the Greenwich Village folk music scene in the 1960s. She's not the only theater vet who looks likely to get involved; legendary Shakespearean actor F. Murray Abraham, best known for his Oscar win as Best Actor for the role of Salieri in "Amadeus," is in talks to play Bud Grossman, a legendary folk manager. It's a while since we've seen Abraham on our cinema screens ("Thir13en Ghosts" is the major one.
- 12/19/2011
- The Playlist
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