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 ...

Ron Evangelista is a writer with a burning passion for movies. He became enamored with films at a very young age when his father tirelessly watched them with him in a small apartment in Makati City, ...

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 ...

The Spirit Award winner, adept at comedy as well as drama, also was memorable in 'The Jerk,' 'Slap Shot,' 'Brubaker' and 'Critters.' By Chris Koseluk M. Emmet Walsh, the wily character actor who ...

Walsh was one of those actors who made every film he was in a little more distinctive, whether 'What's Up Doc?' or 'Christmas with the Kranks.' M. Emmet Walsh is dead at the age of 88, his manager ...