Few filmmakers were fighting on the frontlines of independent cinema in the 1980s like Joel and Ethan Coen. In a moviegoing decade defined by Reagan-era censorship and big-budget blockbusters like ...

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 ...