Aled Owen is a writer and filmmaker born in Carmarthen, Wales. He acted onstage from a young age and even won third place in 2012's Britain's Got Talent as part of Only Boys Aloud, a traditional Welsh ...

When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint ...

The film starring Tim Robbins as a mailroom sap was a resounding flop for the Coens but now they’re supporting a play based on their boardroom comedy When I heard that a stage version of the Coen ...

To cram the plot of this film into one paragraph is to do it a great injustice-- but here goes. The story takes place in 1958, as well-meaning but wet-behind-the-ears country bumpkin Norville Barnes ...

Far from simply retreading familiar ground, this brilliantly designed adaptation highlights the Coens’ debt to 1920s American theatre I am normally wary of stage versions of films. This adaptation, ...

Most of us are accomplished watchers of TV and film, so we intuitively understand some of the concepts lurking in dense film-theory tomes. You won’t need them for Internet Film School, The A.V. Club’s ...

“The Hudsucker Proxy” is really the Capra proxy. It’s a parody of — and tribute to — those Frank Capra populist fables of common men triumphing over the powers of Big Eastern corruption, such as “Mr.

"Hudsucker Proxy" (1994) is a screwball comedy starring Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Paul Newman that cost $40 million to make but made only $2.8 million at the box office. Produced by Joel ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Brothers Coen, director Joel and producer Ethan, are the most exciting contemporary filmmakers never to have had a crossover hit. All their films from Blood Simple via Raising Arizona to Barton ...