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Apr 29, 2021

It's a Texan double feature this time on MG - first is the Coen Brothers’ debut film Blood Simple, a seething neo-noir that rocked the indie world when it came out, introduced us to Academy favorite Francis McDormand, and secretly laid out a map of  the directors' greatest obsessions, hinting at Fargo, No Country for...


Apr 15, 2021

For the third in our Time Travel series, we present two strangely similar films that were made at opposite ends of the budget spectrum, and had opposite fates at the box office! First up - Shane Carruth's five-thousand-dollar indie smash Primer, an incredibly complex thriller that won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance...


Apr 1, 2021

MG takes on a cockney-crime double feature with two of our favorite tough guys! First on the list is Mike Hodges' grim gangster classic Get Carter from 1971, starring Michael Caine; a film that still tops many British best-of lists to this day and remains a major source of  inspiration to filmmakers on both sides of the...