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Double-acts and odd-couples are a staple of our Fargo diets and have been since the 1996 original. The movie went on to inspire Noah Hawley's FX series that features a brand-new story each season, all cut from the same thematic and tonal cloth as the film. In the movie, Steve Busciemi and Peter Stormare star as a criminal duo that became the stencil for Season One's Mr Wrench (Russell Harvard) and Mr Numbers (Adam Goldberg) as well as Season Two's Kitchen Brothers (Todd Mann and Brad Mann). The series also gave us the pairings of Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ewan McGregor, and Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst respectively, both of whom became real-life couples as a result of their odd-couple work on the show. But none come close to the hilariously dark antics of Jason Schwartzman and Jessie Buckley.

Author Martin Amis just can’t catch a break when it comes to seeing his novels adapted for the big screen. Last year saw the atrocious London Fields not so much get released as it did escape development hell. Now, after playing at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, another Amis adaptation hits theaters. It’s Out of Blue, which mixes the investigation of a death with an exploration of astrophysics. If that sounds like a tough pill to swallow, it is. Despite some interesting moments, Out of Blue is too hazy about its themes to work and ends up frustrating way more than it entertains. The movie is a police procedural, at least in name only, though it mixes in liberally some astrology chatter and other such astrophysical mumbo jumbo. When renowned astrophysicist and black hole expert Jennifer Rockwell (Mamie Gummer) is found shot to death in her observatory,...

Not since season one of True Detective has there been such a Gif-worthy, middle-digit salute. When Hank pulls Kansas City henchman Mike Milligan (Bokeem Woodbine) and Wayne (Todd Mann) and Gale (Brad Mann) Kitchen over and inquires about their shoe size (“a truly odd question,” Mike justly observes), the Kitchen twins each flip the bird, prompting Mike to surmise, “I’m gonna go ahead and guess the boys are an 11, and not a two, which would make them toddlers.” Cut, caption, publish. If only Hank were so amused. He goes through protocol and does his best to demonstrate that he’s in control, but his halting breath, shifting eyes, and unsteady posture betray unease about this particular trio. He lets them off with a warning to get out of dodge (albeit in what appears to be an Oldsmobile ’98), and as they peel away, he can finally feel his pulse. As...