Tag: leonard cohen

Podcast Episode 111: Sean Rowe On Music, Songwriting & FRONTIER CRUCIBLE

Singer-songwriter Sean Rowe joins this 111th episode of the Movies In Focus podcast. Rowe wrote the songs on the soundtrack to Travis Mills’ excellent 2025 western, Frontier Crucible – and these punctuate the film as transitional pieces, [...]

July 29, 2026

Review: Thomas Jane & Armie Hammer Are Outlaws In Travis Mills’ Brutal Western FRONTIER CRUCIBLE

The western is the genre that anchors American cinema. Of course there have been are many genres, but the western managed to create a certain mythos. Good versus evil, black hats versus white hats, Cowboys and Indians – there was an apparent [...]

December 1, 2025

The Great Leonard Cohen

The great Leonard Cohen was a novelist, poet, actor, artist, singer, songwriter and a gentleman. He created a body of work that that will be forever cherished and prized amongst those who admire him. Cohen had a respectability that few could match [...]

September 21, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Nick Broomfield’s MARIANNE AND LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE

Nick Broomfield’s Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love is an epic poem dedicated to Marianne Ihlen and the great Leonard Cohen. The latter was a struggling writer who would become one of the 20th century’s greatest singer-songwriters, while [...]

March 24, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Koldo Serra’s THE BACKWOODS

HE Every so often a film comes along that reassures your faith in cinema. If doesn’t have to be a huge blockbuster or even the most acclaimed art house film, it can be a little film that entertains and captures your attention without letting go. [...]

January 31, 2021

Controversial Music Producer Phil Spector Dies

Phil Spector, the music producer behind the iconic ‘Wall Of Sound’ has died at the age of 81. Spector was a complex figure – a genius and a madman who infamously brought guns into the recoding studio. The length and breadth of [...]

January 18, 2021

Review: MARIANNE AND LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE Is Melodic And Melancholic

July 24, 2019

Obituary: Death Of A Ladies Man – Leonard Cohen 1934 – 2016

Leonard Cohen was a novelist, poet, actor, artist, singer, songwriter and a gentleman. He created a body of work that that will be forever cherished and prized amongst those who admire him. Cohen had a respectability that few could match and I [...]

November 12, 2016

You Get The Show You Deserve: Defending TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2

Nic Pizzolatto ripped apart the conventions of the detective story and rebuilt it from the ground up with the first season of True Detective. Not only did it feature ridiculously powerful performances from Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, [...]

July 25, 2015

Review: Gary Oldman In THE BACKWOODS

Every so often a film comes along that reassures your faith in cinema. If doesn’t have to be a huge blockbuster or even the most acclaimed art house film, it can be a little film that entertains and captures your attention without letting go. [...]

March 8, 2012