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Miller's Crossing

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                                                                         Miller's Crossing                                                                 Directed by the Coen brothers                                                                  Written by the Coen brothers If anyone knows me they know that I am a huge fan of the Coen brothers. I've liked every single one of the films I've seen from them, some more than others. The brothers are known for their films having...

True Detective: Season One Review

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True Detective: Season One Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga Written by Nic Pizzolatto True Detective is a series that debuted on HBO in January of 2014 with eight episodes in both of it's two, soon to be three, seasons. Season one stars Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts and Tory Kittles. Two Louisiana detectives, Marty Hart (Harrelson) and Rustin Cohle (McConaughey), are called from retirement by detectives Gilbough (Potts) and Papania (Kittles) in 2012 to talk about a case they investigated back in 1995 when the two were partners. The show constantly switches between 1995 and 2012 with both Hart and Cohle narrating their investigation of the ritualistic murder of a young woman named Dora Lange. As the investigation delves deeper into the seedy criminal underworld the tensions between the two detectives rise as do the tensions between Marty and his wife Maggie (Monaghan). The thing that really grabbed me and kept me coming back...