Our Month of Coens was, I think, a modest success. Thanks to all of the contributors who took the time and effort to turn in such well written articles and features on the brothers auteur. Your participation is what made it such darn fun. You can find a handy-dandy list of all the articles and reviews below in case you may have missed anything.

In lieu of planning another themed month here at MZ (which is coming as soon as we recover from this one), we have a number of new columns and features in the pipeline, so keep your eyes peeled (what does that mean, excatly? Has anyone ever stopped to think what a horrible prospect it would be to actually peel one’s eyes?).

MZ is in its infancy, and we are (hopefully) ever evolving into a better, more streamlined destination for all things film.

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MovieZeal will not typically be a place for personal posts, but this is an exception to the rule.

My second child (but first son), Jacob Emory, was born yesterday morning at 11AM, weighed 7lbs 8oz, and was 20 inches long. He has a grip of steel and latched onto anything he could wrap his tiny fist around. Hopefully he will use his powers for good and not evil. Both he and mom are doing great. As you can imagine, I may be out of pocket over the next few days, but will be back up and running in no time.

We love movies.

A lot.

This blog is a collection of film buffs who have wildly different tastes in celluloid (one praises the perfection of P.T. Anderson while another lives for Takashi Miike) but share the same passion for the motion picture. We will strive to bring you up-to-date reviews so you don’t waste your hard earned Andrew Jacksons on Spoof Movie 3: Spoof This! or Torture Porn Redux, but we also hope to pique your interest in long forgotten foreign gems (go see Fitzcarraldo) and B-Movie masterpieces you might have missed (like Tremors, which is freaking awesome, I kid you not).

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